Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Show us your skyline : a new blog meme
How this meme began : Alternatively, if you have to walk/drive a little way to get to your favourite view, just tell us that it's nearby, but show us anyway. This Earth is a beautiful place; share your view please. Just take a photo of your local personal skyline, crop it to the panoramic style shown above, blog it yourself, then link to THIS Skyline Meme Page and mail me your permalink so that I can link back to it.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
I see that Susan of
Easy Bake Coven joined
the Skyline meme first. I especially liked the way she shot her
city nestling in its valley, so I just now climbed up the hill and
took one of our village Henglarn nestling
in its valley too; pop 600, elev 800, 1 church, 1 shop, 1 pub.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Friday, October 1, 2004
Photoblogger Cameron Stephen is helping out with an improved viewer interface to the Skyline Meme. Go try it. Eva Gordon (Dallas, TX, USA) has a nighttime shot of Dallas. Les Hall has put up his Dallas skyline for our perusal too. Riri has blogged a 360° view of Toronto, from the CN Tower Observation Deck. 'Daisies' skyline is taken in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada "and as you can see, autumn has hit full force here which means the white stuff is just around the corner". Blogless Doris Ehrenstein (Talkeetna, Alaska, USA) mailed me a photo showing that they have the first snow already. Tudy shows us sunset contrails. Frank Paynter has added a Madison skyline. There is also a skyline of NYC from 1999 blogged by Sunghoon Cho. Pat Wilson took these pictures of the London(UK) skyline from the kitchen window back in May. Harriet (Buffy) has a super shot of her London(UK) street. When you join the meme I expect you to put a link to the Skyline Meme page near your skyline photo, to spread the meme. Yes, I'm talking to you, Darieus, 'Exposing Myself', Joseph Holmes, Martin, Jonathan Day-Reiner, Arne, Brian, and Sara. MsCantBWrong was! But now she's corrected her URL to this one. Gwen Harlow shows us Downtown Oakland, California(USA). Cameron has added a Skyline looking north-east towards Healsville, Victoria. (presumably in Australia). Best Skyline so far? Since I wanted panoramic views in particular, IMHO Josef Holmes is best so far, a horizontally scrollable panoramic view of Brooklyn and Manhattan (New York, USA) taken from 1 Hanson Place (29th floor). Go, Joe! Thursday, October 7, 2004
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Sunset of the Skyline memeMy Skyline meme appears to have run out of steam, with no new submissions apart from the San Francisco (USA) skyline by Alan Duke this week. So I've decided to let the meme expire in a glorious orange. It bows out with the final skyline photo, shown above. If I missed any last-minute stragglers, mail me and I'll link to them, otherwise consider the meme closed. And remember please , photoblogger Cameron Stephen (thanks, man!) has an improved viewer interface to the Skyline Meme still available too. Go look.
Late ArrivalsMichael Appelmans added his photo of a Pacific Storm Front on October 30th.Jimmy McCarthy (Wick, Scotland) shows us a Paris(France) skyline taken FROM Notre Dame. Kate Little lives on the waterfront near Portsmouth (GB). Cameron shows us Aura Vale Lake, near Melbourne, where he goes kayaking. Mike Collins, (Chicago, Illinois,USA) shows us
the Chicago skyline from his Wrigleyville neighborhood. My heart did a BIG BIG leap when I saw the mail header,
thinking the sender was THAT
Michael Collins, and was sending a
photo of an
Earthrise skyline from lunar orbit in Apollo 11 taken
back in 1969.
Michael Collins was the astronaut who stayed in lunar
orbit on Apollo 11 while Armstrong and Aldrin went down to kick the dust around Tranquillity Base and
screw up the first lunar sentence. Heartbreaking, to go all that way and then NOT touch down.
I remember staying up, it was 03:24 CET as I remember.
But even if you merely share his name, welcome Mike C. from Wrigleyville :-) Klaus Ellermann is a tower controller at Ahden Airport in Germany (EDLP) and on a clear day he can see 2 miles away Wewelsburg Castle , Germany's only castle with a triangular ground plan. It's a museum and youth-hostel now. My favourite astro-photo sky shot is of the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, taken through a 10 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain. Now Doc Searls has blogged a great snapshot : Doc Searl's dawn skyline, showing Venus, Moon etc all in one shot. March 2005 : Photoblogger Beni Buess sent me a shot out of the window of the apartment in Zurich, Switzerland. April 2005 : Jakarta girl photoblogger Beyondsky/ShugoreI sent a belated link to her B&W photo contribution to this Skyline Meme, it is Sydney CBD skyline, as seen from The Rocks. May 2005 : New Zealand photoblogger Robin Capper sent a further contribution to this Skyline Meme, it is the Waitakere Ranges at sunset,West Auckland, New Zealand. June 2005 : This one I reproduce from the NASA website. I've cropped it put it into the 'Skyline Meme' panoramic format. It's unique, I just couldn't resist. Ladies and Gentlemen, as taken by the Mars Rover, Sunset on Mars! There's a nice sharp shot of the Downtown Houston skyline contributed by photobloggeress Laurie, in Houston (TX). She has some other great skyline shots on her site too. Click though to the Galveston Sunset for example :-) November 2005 : Photoblogger Gavin Gough sent this stitched (5524*300) sylvan panorama.
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