The 'Pictures of where you live at' thread! - 56K warning! Big pictures in here!

[Mauro]

I'll start. =3
http://www.df.unipi.it/~mannella/melhorfotov2003.JPG

That is my small, over-built hometown in the background.

[Guilliman]

I don't have a picture right now, I'll see to take one tomorrow. But I just have to add how a nice picture that is (content) quality is something else, but doesn't matter :p) neat idea tbh :)

[Retroboy]

You're just creating this thread to e-penis that intranet meme-pic that I first saw two years ago, aren't you? :p

-- Retro

[Mauro]

Nope, I really do live in there. I found it on the internet, yes... but I do live in there.
Proof? Well, I could take the pic of Torre Iberius (Tower Iberius) that is shown as that massive construction on the right side of the pic AND, if you check the address of the picture, it says: melhorfotov2003 - Which should mean: Melhor foto do verão de 2003/Best photo of 2003 summer.

I'm going to upload more pictures soon. ;)

[darkelf]

http://folk.uio.no/toanders/statuer/Vigeland_oversikt.jpg
Not exactly where I live, but about two hundred meters away in one of Norway's most famous tourist attractions, Vigelandsparken.

Mauro, are you Portuguese?

[Mauro]

=O
Damn, if that's something pretty.

Yep, as much as a Port can be a Port.

[Sir Plasma]

500 metres away from http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e379/CPlas/112.jpg

[trebmal_ca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/trebmal_ca/PC160002.jpg

[Langy]

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/817/langyhereey6.gif

[snrjefe]

La Casa del Señor Jefe:

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff298/snrjefe/MyHouse.jpg

With snow, but not nearly as much as trebmal_ca...

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff298/snrjefe/MyHousewithSnow.jpg

[Rincewind]

Panorama pic:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/7/7e/20070829221948!HelsinkiPanorama_roccofixed.jpg

Preview:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/HelsinkiPanorama_roccofixed.jpg/800px-HelsinkiPanorama_roccofixed.jpg

[Raver]

About 100 metres from the farmhouse
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/rabidgerbil/DSC01922.jpg

[Retroboy]

8 kilometers away from
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e379/CPlas/112.jpg

SirPlasma, you a west sider too? Anyways, you could have used THIS picture... Same river, different angle, makes all the difference. :)
http://communities.canada.com/shareit/photos/atlantic_canada/images/2894/425x319.aspx

-- Retro

[Dark Angel N00b]

http://i31.tinypic.com/5b5stl.jpg

Not far from that.

I need to move. It doesnt look that nice all the time. (That is nice compared to what it looks like in the day.)

[Nurizeko]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/nurizeko/myhouse.jpg
Welcome to my mansion.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/nurizeko/fronthouse.jpg
Take note of the crusty old Ford Escort, ah memories.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/nurizeko/DSC00003.jpg
My backyard. Ignore the scope. :) That must be before I bought these small bushes that seem to be taking over the borders. :|



Edit: I must point out those photo's are fairly old, my house looks a bit better now. Still worn enough though that burglars don't give it a second look. :)

[Kapp'n]

Wow everyone lives at/near interesting places.

Nice pics nurizeko, its amazing what a scope can do to a picture! ;)

[Riess]

Views from my window:

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4500/fenstersicht600ev8.jpg http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/53/flakbalkon600cx7.jpg

Walking around the city:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6871/sbahnkbachsmlul0.jpg http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8762/8innenhofdk6.jpg http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4382/volvoparkingonlysmllv6.jpg

[scoiatollo]

Riess, you live in the 6th district right? (assuming you took the picture of the flak tower from your home) In march I'm gonna move to the fith district.

I'll probably gonna add some pictures later.

[trebmal_ca]

heh, Reiss, I love the WW2 flak tower with the billboard on it.

[Rafta]

I live close to this:

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125379/Fotos/Muellverbrennung.jpg

That's where I study:

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125379/Fotos/Hauptgebaeude.jpg

Subway:

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125379/Fotos/U6b.jpg

Next to my uni:

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125379/Fotos/karlsplatz.jpg

Riess and me, I think 1 year ago, next to the famous Volksoper:

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125379/Fotos/riessrafta.jpg

[Grenademan]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/Wartron/STORM3.jpg

A shot of an incoming duststorm from my driveway, looking out at the desert around us.

Australian outback ftw.

[Rafta]

WTF that looks amazing!

[Sir Plasma]

Retro: Yes I am! I was debating about showing the Brewery or Bay Shore but I settled on the Irving Love Shack. God forbid, anything's better than the East Side's pride and joy:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e379/CPlas/rws-no-refinery.jpg

[Grenademan]

Yeah, we get these every few months or so. Here's another look from the backyard, same day.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/Wartron/STORM1.jpg

[scoiatollo]

@Trebaml: The best part of this particular flak tower is that it's a reptile house/aquarium link to it (http://www.haus-des-meeres.at/index_e.html)
On the outside you have a the opportunity to climb up or to do some bowldering.

IIRC there should be 3 other flak towers but all the others are just standing around with no special puporse afaik.

[Hellraiser]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/pipboy2000/wtfaurora.jpg

The view outside of my window, this one has the contrast blasted up because it didn't show the aurora (yes the glowing strip on the sky just above teh city lights in teh distance is an aurora and not a cloud, it actually moved/glowed like one). It's a rare occurrence but it does happen here o0nce every few years.

Better pictures of different spots around the city:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/pipboy2000/3_krzyze2.jpg

The historical entrance gate nr. 2 of the Gdansk Shipyard. This is where during the strike of 1980 (which was the beginning of the Solidarity movement) the shipyard workers placed the boards with their demands written down. The 3 crosses monument was later erected in the memory of several workers which were killed by the communists during the December 1970 protests.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/pipboy2000/widok_na_gda__sk11.jpg

A view on the old town, that large church is apparently the tallest brick Gothic church in the world an one of the largest Gothic buildings in general. You can also see the old city hall clock tower.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/pipboy2000/stocznia_2007.jpg

This image was most likely take from the top of the tower of that church showing the shipyard (surprising no ship was under construction at the time the image was taken, usually a hull should be clearly visible between the cranes) and various other buildings. In the distance you can see the Gdańsk Bay, the cliffs in the neighboring city of Gdynia along with it's port slightly to the right of the cliffs. All of those are somewhere from 25 to 40 kilometers away. Apparently on a clear sunny day you should be able to spot the tip of the Hel peninsula with the town of Hel located on it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/pipboy2000/Portgdansk.jpg

This is the westernmost and northernmost Vistula estuary, you can see part of the port and Westerplatte (the forest covered peninsula). On September the 1st 1939 the battleship Schleswig-Holstein was docked somewhere on the river. From it some of the first few shots of the conflict that became World War 2 were fired (later it was discovered the first acts of the 3rd Reich's aggression took place somewhere on the souther border) at the Polish base on Westerplatte. Currently there's a museum there along with an ugly socrealistic monument with images of soviet soldiers helping polish ones (lol communist propaganda). Quite a lot of people want to tear it down and replace it with something less ugly and more historically accurate.

[Mauro]

http://lh6.google.com/lopezdemorales/RvMH0XvRHaI/AAAAAAAAAcE/a95iOScz92s/PA240103.JPG?imgmax=640

Senhora da Rocha - Rock's Lady. (Kick arse name. =o)

http://www.portugalvirtual.pt/_tourism/algarve/silves/beach2290.jpg

Down the beach...

http://img.adoosimg.com/2f92104d5da4f6e28c3624621eed-1-3.jpg

The New Zone that was once New, about two years ago, but is now old because of over-building and even if it looks new it is now old and so on and so on and etc...
... And stuff...
(About 50% of those houses never seen a person living inside them...)

http://www.createvillas.co.uk/images/portugal_and_madeira/armacao_de_pera_map.jpg

Now THIS is the old zone.
(But it has kept it's beauty ^^ - Sometimes... >_>)

http://fotos.sapo.pt/tomix1957/pic/000zd8sb

It's evenin'!

http://bp3.blogger.com/_p-oE7DPyaXc/R7RR_tN3YZI/AAAAAAAAAws/KJXQlB_1lNg/s1600/fotaleza1.jpg

Landmark! Aaaah... So... It's some kind of fortress. The initial town was built by some fisherman, but they were raided, their women raped and their children enslaved.

Buuuut, they made this fortress and they did manage to fend off some Moorish Pirates - Basically 3 to 1 disvantage, an even fight.
But still managed to get raped, killed and enslaved after some raids.

Oh... And being washed over by a huge tidal wave.
Only a white building (The chapel) survived. All people were dead, tho.

But they never gave up (Not on being raped, killed and enslaved, I mean...)!

[Nurizeko]

Forgot some photo's of mah citeh!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Aberdeen_city_center.jpg/800px-Aberdeen_city_center.jpg

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/ACCI/web/MultimediaFiles/INTERNATIONALMARKET_AUG2006.JPG

http://www.high.st/aberdeen/Aberdeen_high_street.jpeg

http://www.evworld.com/images/aberdeen_unionstreet.jpg

http://www.mysterious-scotland.com/Aberdeen1.jpg

http://pro3.chem.pitt.edu/richard/photos/blue_hill/img/pict0398.jpg

[MagosMechanicus]

A couple hundred meters away from:
http://www.reuber-norwegen.de/SoerTroendelag/SoerTroendelagTrondheimDom02_g.jpg
http://www.ntnu.no/eksternweb/multimedia/archive/00007/samfundet_7939c.jpg<- The red building is the Student's Society, then the university campus starts behind it.

Being so far north it gets a fair bit of aurora borealis too. Hard to spot it because of the city lights, mostly, but I think I've seen one in my half-year or so here.
http://www.vad1.com/photo/stock/n37-32-3.jpg

[trebmal_ca]

maybe we should have a image warning for the 56k folks

[Mnementh]

Out of my window at work (Ignore Steve, he visits daily)

http://pics.livejournal.com/blooddragon/pic/00001yyg/s640x480

That garden you can see at the bottom left is a church garden, the one in this picture (my office block is cut off, further to the right)

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa278/keithg66/P1020238.jpg

Thats the Titanic Memorial. It memorials the Titanics.

http://www.vanilladays.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/img_8248.jpg

Some sort of 2008 cultural celebration thing.

[Meatkin]

hey i was there in that last pic mnementh, you can see me if you look REALLY hard!

[Zepherian]

Steve is awesome!

[Mauro]

=O Seagull.

Rats with wings. =3

(Sorry, I had to say it. >_<)
Your last picture is pretty much as awesome as it gets. For some reason, I really like how it is.

[Vaarok]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Vaarok/cheery.jpg

Yay home. My porch-light is the leftmost one, up the road from the barn and employee house.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Vaarok/barncloud.jpg

Work, from the opposite direction (walking away from my house).

And the seasonal extremes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Vaarok/slope.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Vaarok/topothehill.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Vaarok/wasteland.jpg

[Kheturus]

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m315/Kheturus/Snowshoe0001.jpg
Showshoeing on a frozen lake. The sun is at high-noon. :/

[Harmanoff]

This be where i live:
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6757/arstavikenol9.jpg

It's a fairly crappy and uninformative pic i know but there just aren't any good photos that actually include my building. There are however plenty of photos showing of some of the finer sights of Stockholm such as this one(same part i live in only further north):
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7722/soderbt3.jpg

[Wargrim]

View down on the street, winter 2006 i think. If you want to see pictures of the city, just google for Berlin. :p

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4055/img0025kc4.th.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0025kc4.jpg)

[Retroboy]

Khet, what latitude are you at, and what's the longest/shortest day of the year?

-- Retro

[Kheturus]

62° 28' N

Shortest day in December is from 11:00 to 15:15 (or so). But as far as actual daylight goes, I would say it is "light" out from 11:30 to 14:30. The picture is from the first week of January.

[Paladin]

That flak tower is cool. If I lived in a place that had them, I'd buy one and live on it.

[Kapp'n]

Out of my window at work (Ignore Steve, he visits daily)

http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/4/2/16/f_s640x480m_241eb0f.jpg (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/2/16/f_s640x480m_241eb0f.jpg&srv=img28)
Wow, makes me feel proud to share my name with such a cool seagull :awesome:

[rc mad]

http://i31.tinypic.com/5b5stl.jpg
Not far from that.

I need to move. It doesnt look that nice all the time. (That is nice compared to what it looks like in the day.)





And what exactly is wrong with the steelworks in sunny scunny :bigwave:
Mind you i live down on riddings :spartaaa: so i don't have to look at it all day :D

some good biking roads in the area tho :D

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.r.elsom/IMG_1693.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.r.elsom/IMG_1695.jpg

[Luwinkle]

I live about 20-30 minutes-ish from this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/LouisvilleSluggerMusem.jpg

What, your city doesn't have a 5 story tall metal bat? Shame.

Here's a picture of the downtown skyline taken from the Indiana side, courtesy of wikipedia:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/LouisvilleDowntownSkyline2.jpg

I would show a picture of my suburbs(about 10-15 minutes from the city)..but I don't have one...and they aren't as pretty.

My father used to work in that big black National City building.
I found it on the old MS Flight Simulator once.
I flew a plane into it, just for him. <3

[Rent-a-Zilla]

The island harbour entrance (the castle in the background was started in the 16th Century and finished in the 17th, and was fought over during the English Civil War)

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6765/harbourathomewh2.jpg

One of our local cows:

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1599/cowdowntheroadls9.jpg

A WWII-era German observation post that was converted to a civilian/aviation radio tower after the war (this island and the rest were occupied) and is now available to rent for three nights (it's very cramped, but the view from the top is amazing):

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/959/formernaziobservationtojc4.jpg

A fortification from a much earlier period (one of 105 built by the British between 1802 and 1812 to guard against an invasion from France/Napoleon):

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1329/firstoutingthreegw0.jpg

Some cool cast concrete things used to dissipate the energy from incoming waves:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9669/harbourathomeiibq5.jpg:

Tidal range is very high here - this happens in three hours on a high spring tide (-3 hours to high water > high water):

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9396/tidedifferencegm7.jpg

[SeniorDingDong]

http://www.compact-tours.de/kulturreisen/bilder/celle1.jpg http://www.stadtkirche-celle.de/luft.jpg
http://www.9staedte.de/impressionen/celle/Celle_c.jpg

But I am living the "modern" part of the town. Lots of small rowhouses and trees everywhere .

[Riess]

scoiatollo, yep, Mariahilf for life :D

treb, that same Flak tower also houses an aquarium/terrarium, museum, and tropical-themed café. And you can climb the outside. I wish they'd put something more pleasing at the top, though.

[Retroboy]

Luwinkle, that giant baseball bat is enough to convince me to never travel to Indiana. It's like someone focussed a "Honey I shrunk the kids" growth ray on a piece of "McDonalds Happy Meal" tchotskie. :bleh:

Anyone else find DingDong's first pic to look artificial?

-- Retro

[SeniorDingDong]

Its very possible, because its not shot by myself.

http://www.reise-service-reiner.de/lueneburger-heide.jpg
Anyway, it realy looks that that here ... the whole region is hostilled by this strange purple alien plant :err:

[Illiandri]

How do you copy pictures to the post?

[Trinity]

Home...
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v80/70/3/843550477/n843550477_468601_8884.jpg


Work...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/CanadianJadeAngel/Cornwall%20Photos/navcan.jpg

[Luwinkle]

Hey Retro..hate to burst your bubble but that's a LOUISVILLE Slugger.


Louisville isn't in Indiana.

So you can still visit the giant 5 story bat! :D

[Jianaran]

some pics (not by me, my camera's to shitty) or around my area:
Down at the docks:
http://lloydi.com/travel-writing/round-the-world-trip/_wallpaper/_wallpaper-Images/38.jpg
An Aurora Australis a while back:
http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/senior/cosmicengine/images/sun/aurora_hobart.jpg
Sunset:
http://www.christinemilne.org.au/files/campaigns/extras/Ralphs_Bay_sunset_D.Jamrozik_2004.jpg
and another one:
http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/choose-australia/regional-life/images/photos/hobart-mountain.jpg
The City:
http://www.anette-igel.de/hobart4.jpgp

[eddyeddyd]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg/300px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg

been living here my whole life

[Kheturus]

After looking at Trinity's home, I am concerned we pay our armed forces too much.

[Nibsy]

This is where i live
http://hosting.reliccommunity.com/uploads/109481/20080217012721-IMG_0059resize.jpg
Mt. Wellington and Kingston from South Arm beach (5 mins walk from my place)http://hosting.reliccommunity.com/uploads/109481/20080217013000-IMG_1818resize.jpg
View from the main gate of our Local Military instalment (15 mins walk)http://hosting.reliccommunity.com/uploads/109481/20080217013159-IMG_2298resize.jpg
View of South Arm from Mt. Wellingtonhttp://hosting.reliccommunity.com/uploads/109481/20080217013438-50306710.TAS20040216111222.JPG

[Luwinkle]

Which do you live in..the house or the multi-colored shack with the bathtub in the yard? *duck*

[Nibsy]

Luwinkle: I live in the house, the 'shack' is our shed, in which we keep all manner of things, from old TV sets to Hay (horse feed), to a Ride-on mower, and the reason its 'multi-colored' is because my dad is trying to find the right colour to paint it (at least he was, when this pic was taken).

[Jianaran]

^^

Skip my post, look at Nibsy's. He lives a km or two from my house.

[Luwinkle]

It was a bit of a joke, Nibsy. :p

[eddyeddyd]

It was a bit of a joke, Nibsy.

*sigh of relief*

good because i thought i smelt a flamewar coming on.
Im not very good at detecting internet sarcasm.

trinity your house is beautiful :)