  Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 322 Registered: 08-2006 |
Lowell, the new banner looks great-- what a shot of the river and bridge!•••• Just more proof that our little "City on the Strait" is really a beautiful place. | ||
Kslice Member Username: Kslice Post Number: 211 Registered: 04-2007 |
Yeah, it's nice to get something other than a downtown shot once in a while! | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3556 Registered: 10-2003 |
Awesome photo. The colors of the trees are great. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1292 Registered: 11-2003 |
Nice photo | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 440 Registered: 11-2003 |
Perfect shot for the banner. Nice visual composition, as usual with your fine fine work. Lowell Boileau - a Detroit gem :-) | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 884 Registered: 10-2007 |
Great photo, Lowell. That's me fishing down there near the Ambassador bridge. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 186 Registered: 12-2003 |
Great shot Lowell...on a clear day you can see Zug Island! That's me stuck in line on the bridge at the border... | ||
Formerspringgardener Member Username: Formerspringgardener Post Number: 69 Registered: 07-2006 |
Great shot of the bridge! | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 361 Registered: 08-2007 |
Lowell Boileau, ... great shot, love the physicality of the pic. It shows the umbellic link between our twin cities of Detroit and Windsor. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 3507 Registered: 02-2007 |
what's the vantage point? helicopter? | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 3979 Registered: 02-2005 |
Fort Street is one big-ass road. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 2230 Registered: 01-2005 |
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. | ||
Detroithabitater Member Username: Detroithabitater Post Number: 68 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think it was taken from penobscot or comerica tower. | ||
401don Member Username: 401don Post Number: 5 Registered: 11-2007 |
Great Shot! Just think how a twin span would ruin this. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10748 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have contacted homeland security. It is obvious that you are 'scouting' the bridge for potential terrorist purposes. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 170 Registered: 05-2007 |
^^LMAO! | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 931 Registered: 01-2007 |
Nice photo Lowell, you can see the submarine races! | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3781 Registered: 12-2005 |
So this must be in honor of its 78th anniversary. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1134 Registered: 04-2005 |
i liked the old one that featured the space shuttle parked down by chene park. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 541 Registered: 02-2006 |
Wonderful shot! Nice to see another shot other than the skyline... I bet if you show that shot to most Metro Detroiters, they wouldn't know where that was... <313> | ||
Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill Post Number: 380 Registered: 09-2006 |
Very nice shot, gives a good perspective of the river area. would also be nice to see a shot in the other direction to wards the city behind the bridge | ||
Stromberg2 Member Username: Stromberg2 Post Number: 49 Registered: 10-2006 |
Phenominal photo, Lowell, Thanks for everything that you do. stromberg2, very impressed! | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 257 Registered: 02-2006 |
Alot of industrial smokestacks and somewhat bleak. How often do you rotate the banner pic? Perhaps you should have some autumnal colors from around the city on there. I too would like to know the story behind the photo: where did you take it and when? What sort of camera are you using? | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 323 Registered: 08-2006 |
Yaktown, I don't find the industrial smokestacks bleak at all. Heavy industry is a big part of Detroit's economy and way of life. My family has worked at the Rouge Plant and other plants in the area for decades, and I'm very proud of their work there. The factories look massive and majestic in the distance, and they are symbolic of Detroit's prominence in the industrial world. | ||
Billk Member Username: Billk Post Number: 164 Registered: 09-2005 |
73rd floor of the Ren Cen? | ||
Awfavre Member Username: Awfavre Post Number: 168 Registered: 08-2005 |
Nice shot, Lowell! I’m guessing it’s in the RenCen, but lower than the 73rd floor. I was in a friend’s room on the 65th floor this weekend, & my perspective there seemed higher than in this shot. It’s got to be in the morning, b/c the sun would backlight the shot in the afternoon/evening. It was taken in the last couple weeks, b/c there is lots of color in the trees (assuming it was taken this year). I’m pretty sure the orange vessel just above the Ambassador bridge is tug William J. Moore & her barge McCleary’s Spirit. I’d have to know the date to determine the salty at Detroit Marine Terminals. It looks like a BBC vessel. I think the vessel below the bridge is the Detroit-Windsor truck ferry tug Stormont with her barge & some trucks on the barge, but I can’t say for sure. When did you take this shot, Lowell? (Message edited by awfavre on November 13, 2007) | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4299 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thank you all for the kind remarks and a special thanks to Northend from the forum who opened the doors for me on a lovely autumn day. Indeed it is from atop the Penobscot from a little over a week ago. What particularly appealed to me in that shot was the curving wake of the ship passing below the bridge. The wake really accentuates the bend in the straits and give dynamism to the composition. I also like the industrial landscape aspect. Behold once the pounding heart of the arsenal of democracy. Zug, Nicholson Marina, Rouge, Great Lakes Steel all hammering away - a portrait of what we were. Camera inquiry - I have been using a Nikon D200 for the past two years and couldn't be happier with the results. Here is the same ship a little later.  | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3799 Registered: 12-2005 |
From Google Earth:  | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3800 Registered: 12-2005 |
What I like most about the new photo is how well it shows the width of the river. You can't capture that from the ground. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6432 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroitbill, from the river, here's the shot looking the other way.  | ||
Awfavre Member Username: Awfavre Post Number: 170 Registered: 08-2005 |
Assuming Lowell took those shots on Friday, 11/2/07, the orange tug is, indeed, tug William J. Moore & barge McCleary’s Spirit, on their way to Sarnia. The salty at DMT is the Federal Matane. Lowell, at the moment you took the second shot, the tug was abeam of my vantage point (photo below), at 12:32 pm. http://www.boatnerd.com/news/n ewsthumbs/images06/Ryerson8-9- 6-06acw.jpg (Message edited by awfavre on November 14, 2007) | ||
Nere Member Username: Nere Post Number: 71 Registered: 04-2007 |
It's a beautiful photo, and I think I can see my house! | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1152 Registered: 04-2005 |
what i like most about the new photo is how well it shows the length of the river. you can't capture that from the ground. | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 119 Registered: 08-2007 |
Ok guys - just where can I find this banner on the site? I'm not seeing anyone fishing by the bridge and I see no river at all. Only tree tops and the tops of the skyline with a large blue sky. I've been on the site for a couple of months now and its been the same banner. Do I have a different banner than everyone else??? I feel totally left out...  Wazzup? | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1155 Registered: 04-2005 |
eriedearie, i was likewise confused by all the laudatory comments, whilst i was seeing the old banner! try clearing your browser cache...or hold down "ctrl" and (while holding it down) hit "F5" | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 123 Registered: 08-2007 |
Awesome! Thecarl to the rescue! I did the "ctrl" "F5" thingy - WOW you know some impressive magic stuff! Now I'm "in with the in crowd". Thanks buddy! Oh yeah - beautiful picture. Now that's what everyone's been talking 'bout! Love it!  | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1156 Registered: 04-2005 |
thanks, eriedearie! as the year draws to a close, this just must put me into late contention for a yessie award! | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 125 Registered: 08-2007 |
I've been trying to look over those treetops for the river to see if I could spot "The_ed" down there fishing by the bridge! I'm so glad you fixed it for me. Yep, now I can see him. And the 2007 yessie award goes to..."Thecarl" | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3831 Registered: 12-2005 |
What's that red mark on the ship's bow? Some kind of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer theme coming up for Christmas? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3832 Registered: 12-2005 |
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Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 464 Registered: 02-2007 |
Hi Lowell - I'm breaking with the rah-rah orthodoxy on this. On my screen the right side of the still, or the west side of the City is blurred out. A glitch in my hardware, or did you run out of film, daylight, stamina, etc? I, for one, would like to have the full view (and I've seen it from the Buhl, or about 20 stories below your vantage point. What gives? | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1934 Registered: 04-2005 |
quote: The image is 1,204 x 118 pixels in size, so if your monitor has a wider screen resolution than that, you get the blurry stuff to compensate for the fixed width of the banner image. | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 387 Registered: 04-2006 |
Looks like a light/shadow thing to me, Jimaz. | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 466 Registered: 02-2007 |
HW/Lowell - the image on my screen dies out maybe 100 yards north of Jefferson. How far north/west can you see? | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4315 Registered: 10-2003 |
What Hornwrecker wrote -> The image is 1,204 x 118 pixels in size, so if your monitor has a wider screen resolution than that, you get the blurry stuff to compensate for the fixed width of the banner image. I always a continuation smear/blur for those with wider screen resolutions, better than a blank space IMO. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2014 Registered: 11-2003 |
Great shot, Lowell, of the Guardian Building and of our former law offices on the 32nd floor ( with the little balconies outside our windows ). The windows were locked from the inside so we could not get out on the balconies which was probably a good idea. Before we took possession of the floor, there used to be a restaurant occupying the whole floor which was called the Aztec, and I have met a few folks over the years who remembered it. My office was located on the far West end, with a panoramic view both to the West and the South. I had a marine radio on the window sill and could listen to the ship traffic. Lucky I got any law done! |
