  Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 164 Registered: 03-2006 |
That is a nice picture of the backside of the Detroit skyline as a banner for the DetroitYES forum! | ||
Jtw Member Username: Jtw Post Number: 140 Registered: 06-2005 |
oh, cool! i had to force the top frame to refresh in order to see it. | ||
Jdkeepsmiling Member Username: Jdkeepsmiling Post Number: 261 Registered: 01-2006 |
Excellent!!!! | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 3044 Registered: 02-2005 |
I'm trying to guess where it was taken from. Somewhere near the Poletown plant... Nice photo. | ||
Detroithabitater Member Username: Detroithabitater Post Number: 12 Registered: 10-2006 |
I like how you can see St. Albertus peaking out at the edge. | ||
Rrl Member Username: Rrl Post Number: 851 Registered: 12-2003 |
Nice photoshop pic Lowell. If only there were truly that many trees in the city... | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 28 Registered: 06-2007 |
Where was this pic taken? Nice shot... I am into photography as well. | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 93 Registered: 02-2004 |
I am going to guess the photo was taken somewhere around McDougall & Willis. RFB | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3907 Registered: 10-2003 |
No photoshop... No correct answers... but a few warm ones.  | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 692 Registered: 10-2003 |
Great picture Lowell. Did you do some kind of Mosaic to get that shot? The detail looks too clear to just be one cropped image. | ||
Detroithabitater Member Username: Detroithabitater Post Number: 13 Registered: 10-2006 |
packard | ||
Mpow Member Username: Mpow Post Number: 258 Registered: 11-2003 |
was it taken from lafayette towers? | ||
Jtw Member Username: Jtw Post Number: 141 Registered: 06-2005 |
rfban - i think it's closer to downtown than that. maybe more like St. Aubin & Scott (looking at a map). | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 450 Registered: 08-2006 |
Its nice to see the skyline with the usually hidden Book Tower in it! | ||
Cabasse Member Username: Cabasse Post Number: 41 Registered: 01-2006 |
packard, right? damn, that is an awesome view - i liked the belle isle one quite a bit, but this one brings an excellent change. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 369 Registered: 02-2006 |
I like it. <313> | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2378 Registered: 12-2005 |
It's a composite, right? It's very well done. It must have taken quite a bit of time to get it that good. Will the tree colors change in the Fall? That would be a nice touch. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3910 Registered: 10-2003 |
No collage, no composite, no alterations. One shot, as they said in the Deerhunter. And there has been a correct location ID. What can be seen that is in Windsor? | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 95 Registered: 02-2004 |
Jtw, it cannot be St. Aubin & Scott because St Albertus is in the picture and St. Albertus is on St. Aubin. BTW it is Casino Windsor | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 96 Registered: 02-2004 |
Packard may be correct—Lutheran cemetery and its foliage in front. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 4304 Registered: 10-2003 |
Lafayette Park. | ||
Scottr Member Username: Scottr Post Number: 529 Registered: 07-2006 |
Great picture, Lowell! | ||
Drankin21 Member Username: Drankin21 Post Number: 97 Registered: 12-2003 |
that is beautiful! | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1756 Registered: 11-2003 |
I was going to say Lafayette Park towers since that area is heavily wooded, but it looks like the vantage point is too far north for that. From Lafayette Park, you wouldn't have Ford Field in front of the Stott Tower. So, I'd go with the Packard plant guesses. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 248 Registered: 10-2003 |
Nice photo. Have never seen this panorama of downtown before. On the far right, the church spire looks like the spire of St. Josaphat. | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 166 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'd say that the picture is taken northeast of downtown Detroit judging by the alignment of the RenCen towers and you can see the east side of the Penabscot Building. So I guess most of the buildings on the left side of RenCen are the Windsor buildings. | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 97 Registered: 02-2004 |
It is most defiantly NOT St. Josaphat. It is most certainly St. Albertus with an all copper roof . | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 98 Registered: 02-2004 |
No, not true they are the buildings east of Downtown, Lafayette Park, Pavilion and dominated by 1300 Lafayette East. The only building that I see from Windsor is the casino. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1707 Registered: 05-2005 |
i think its funny that someone though it was taken from lafayette towers considering they're in the photo! i'm going with packard as well, relatively low angle signaling it was taken only about 4-5 stories up | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 250 Registered: 10-2003 |
Rfban--I was just looking at a pix of John Lee Hooker on Hastings Street and the image of St. Josaphat looked similar to the spire in Lowell's photo. (Message edited by xD_brklyn on June 21, 2007) | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 100 Registered: 02-2004 |
Similar YES, but it's not it. It is clear that St. Josaphat does not have a copper roof.   | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1591 Registered: 11-2003 |
I am going to guess Chene and Warren area. There are a bunch of trees in Perrien Park as well as a few in the area. Also from there it is possible for St. Albertus to show up in the pic. Am I close Lowell? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4635 Registered: 08-2004 |
It looks as though it was taken farther east than the Packard Plant. And it was taken from a taller building... I would venture to say from one of the upper floors of the former YMCA on Harper & Cadillac Blvd. (1 block east of Gratiot). ... no wait, the alignment of the Penobscot Building and Ford Field makes Gratiot too far east... so I am going to say from one of the upper floors of the Eastown Theatre Apartment Building (Harper & Van Dyke). (Message edited by Gistok on June 21, 2007) | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 170 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think the pic was taken from atop a building at Chene and Superior. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6284 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gumby, check your e-mail or e-mail me... Sheesh! You government workers are all lazy! | ||
Bohemianrobot Member Username: Bohemianrobot Post Number: 36 Registered: 02-2007 |
I'm guessing the lovely new banner was taken at Tolan Park, at Mack and 75. I'm probably wrong because I can't imagine how you could get a shot at such an elevated level. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4639 Registered: 08-2004 |
It had to have been take at least 4 or more floors up. You cannot get that much downtown detail, not to mention all those treetops, at a lower elevation. Hmmmm, if not from an upper floor of the Eastown Apartments, then perhaps from a church tower.... | ||
Esp Member Username: Esp Post Number: 84 Registered: 09-2005 |
I've always liked the banner pictures because they are so striking but I've never understood the big smear at the right? Is it a web thing? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2381 Registered: 12-2005 |
I think Lowell explained that once before. It wasn't designed for wide screens and so the browser just stretches it out. It might look better if it were centered with whitespace on the left and right but I'm not sure that many people even see the smear. I think it was LivernoisYard that mentioned it last time. (Message edited by Jimaz on June 21, 2007) | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 692 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rfban, people goof those two up all the time, as do I. Love the avatar Lowell | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2384 Registered: 12-2005 |
avatar? | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 695 Registered: 01-2007 |
Jimaz, eh, right you are! Allow me to restate it correctly: Rfban, people goof those two up all the time, as do I. Love the thingydo Lowell. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2386 Registered: 12-2005 |
I thought maybe I missed a new avatar feature. I'd call it a masthead but now I like thingydo™ better. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1582 Registered: 01-2004 |
The trees are the cemetery next to packard. http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 7/04/30/lay_of_the_land.htm | ||
Mallory Member Username: Mallory Post Number: 137 Registered: 05-2006 |
I still think it was done by Industrial Light and Magic... | ||
Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport Post Number: 290 Registered: 11-2005 |
It is too far east to be from the Packard Plant. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1587 Registered: 01-2004 |
 From the Packard | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1588 Registered: 01-2004 |
hm..Lookin pretty close Rbdetsport | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 169 Registered: 03-2006 |
If you moved more to your right (west) from where you took that picture, Mauser, I believe it would be exact! I wonder if the two chimney stacks in front of the Ford Field roof in Mauser's picture were airbrushed out of the DetroitYES banner? | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 101 Registered: 02-2004 |
I Very much doubt anything was airbrushed out. For one thing the DY pic was taken recently with the leaves on all of the trees. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4653 Registered: 08-2004 |
I don't think those 2 are smoke stacks, I think they're the twin towers to Sweetest Heart of Mary church. See the signage atop Ford Field... in Mauser's pic it is slightly to the right of the David Stott Tower (tallest building between Penobscot Bldg. & Book Tower). In Lowell's pic it is to the left of the Stott Tower. Also in Lowell's pic the Broderick Tower & Book Tower have a slight gap of space between them. In Mauser's pic they ovelap. So I don't think that Lowell's pic was taken at the Packard Plant... but it looks like it was taken not far from there. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1591 Registered: 01-2004 |
Yeah - thats Sweetest Heart of Mary not smoke stacks. Gistok - what near Packard can you go up 5 storys tho ? | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6290 Registered: 10-2003 |
Packard is pretty freaking long too... | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1592 Registered: 01-2004 |
 My location shooting across the cemetery from the southernmost end of the plant  Packard compared to downtown - shooting parallel with Gratiot. I also dont see anything even close to Packard that is 5 stories tall. | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 171 Registered: 03-2006 |
Maybe Lowell used a digital camera on top of an extending pole and used a screen on the ground to see the shot? | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1593 Registered: 01-2004 |
Yesssss...that makes sense Catman. | ||
Detroithabitater Member Username: Detroithabitater Post Number: 14 Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't think that is sweetest heart of mary, I think it's St. Elizabeths on McDougal. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1594 Registered: 01-2004 |
Dhabitater is right that it isnt Sweetest Heart of Mary - check it out, the steeples dont match - not even close.  And this is Sweetest Heart:  | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4666 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yup, you're right, from a distance it was difficult to tell. Funny I am not even familiar with St. Elizabeth's on McDougall. But since it is not to be seen at all in the Lowell's pic, does that perhaps mean that his photo was NOT taken at the Packard Plant? Or maybe just in a different location within the plant? Like I mentioned earlier, the only (non-church) structures at least 5 stories tall (besides the Packard plant) are the Eastown Theatre Apartments and the former YMCA near Harper & Gratiot (although we can agree that Lowell's photo does not follow the path of Gratiot). | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 105 Registered: 02-2004 |
The suspense is killing me... There is a tarred sliver of a brick wall in the lower right that has me still pondering. I can't believe how much time we have spent looking at this picture... | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4669 Registered: 08-2004 |
Come on Lowell, put us out of our misery.... | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1595 Registered: 01-2004 |
Naw, this is hilarious. Keep on cyphering folks.... | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1596 Registered: 01-2004 |
Lowell did already narrow it down, between these two posts there is a correct ident: LOWELL: No photoshop... No correct answers... but a few warm ones. 1.) packard 2.) was it taken from lafayette towers? 3.) i think it's closer to downtown than that. maybe more like St. Aubin & Scott (looking at a map). 4.) packard, right? LOWEL: No collage, no composite, no alterations. One shot, as they said in the Deerhunter. And there has been a correct location ID. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3924 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yes, "...there has been a correct location ID." But since the location is large I was hoping for a little more refinement from the forum sleuths. Meanwhile I am enjoying the fine tuning and learning a lot on the periphery. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1598 Registered: 01-2004 |
well Im going to have to guess that it is from Packard, but slightly lower than my vantage, and must be north of the Boulevard ? From the windows of the office portion facing the road, straight up from the blown open main entry door, and then to the west a bit. Probably 3 or 4 floors up. Thats my guess. | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 129 Registered: 02-2004 |
Apparently we never found the exact location? | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 174 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think it's from the older section of the packard, from the top corner of the tallest building in this photo (closest to the camera). http://flickr.com/photos/gsgeo rge/351029183/ This would be the oldest section of the Packard, directly behind the building on the northern side of Grand Blvd. Basically Mauser was close on his satellite pic, but north a few blocks. Personalized Google map for reference What do you guys think? | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 183 Registered: 03-2006 |
In comparing Mauser's picture with the banner, it does appear that the tree-tops line is higher in the banner picture, meaning the picture was taken at a lower elevation than Mauser's. Also, the church steeples would disappear into the tree-top line at the lower elevation of the camera. So I think you got it right, Gsgeorge, on the elevation. Horizontally, I don't know enough about which building would be in front of the other in order to determine whether we move right or left. |
