Pictures Only Please!

[Sportsdude]

I'm back! I got a ton of pics. Sorry I meant 3ct not pacific, oops!

Would have taken more but it was getting hot out and I was starting to sweat through my tshirt (very common if you stay outside here for more then 2mins) and I thought the meter was running low. (Which it wasn't had 30mins left, oh well).

  Would have liked to take a picture of city hall. Its a gothic building from the 1800's, looks really cool. And Union Station's clock tower looks like Ottawa's Peace Tower. Didn't get to that one either. Many did the old capital building, the arch, eads bridge and laclede's landing oh and kiener plaza. Didn't get to Forest Park too hot. But when I do I think everyone will like those lots of reflecting pools, King Louis the XIV over art hill, the muny, history museum, jute box, oh and of course the Zoo. Can't forget that one! (its one of the best Zoo's in the country and its free)    

[Sportsdude]

Here's the first one. Its a picture of Kiener Plaza looking at the old courthouse (famous for the dred scott case) which looks at the Arch.

  You can put any of these pics as your background I think they're quite good. (I'm giving weird al a run for his money)

  They were soooooo good tinypic couldn't use them.

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[Sportsdude]

The next one is of the fountain closer up. I like this one because the dark blue water really comes out well. The fountain is a dedication to the 1904 World's Fair which was in Saint Louis. It also was the site of the olympics back then. The runner symbolizes the olympics.

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[purelife]

That's a beautiful picture.  I have already saved it to My Photos and is part of my screensaver photos.  

  Thanks for taking them.

[purelife]

Your camera takes excellent photos.  Great quality!

[Sportsdude]

oh not to brag but I took better ones......

  They're coming....  

[Sportsdude]

Here's an sort of up close shot of the retunda of the court house.

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  The good ones are up next aka the arch.

[Sportsdude]

Okay the Jefferson Memorial was built in the 1960's it symbolizes Lewis and Clark's journey into the unknown since it the journey started in Saint Louis the town has been known as the "Gateway to the West". The Gateway Arch or just St. Louis Arch or the Arch as the locals call it is the tallest monument in the world. (taller then the effel tower) its almost 700ft tall. You can take an elevator up to the top.

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  The next two are 'post card' material. I got really lucky today.

[Sportsdude]

Really proud of this one.

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  Wanted to get the sun coming off the silver. Oh was it a good day. (This only works best with a clear sky)

[Sportsdude]

I've had dreams of pictures like this one, always, always, always wanted to do this. There's a pic someone did of the CN Tower in Toronto like this looking up. Ever since I saw that pic I knew I must do the arch.

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[Sportsdude]

Alright, the next two are a fun fact/scary fact. Its a photo of the steps leading up to the arch. (Probly thinking right now why did I take a picture of steps?). Well, during the flood of 1993 the mississippi river got so high it went just below where those people are standing. (About where the steps get darker). How high is that? Well that point is 40 feet above flood stage. The next picture will be of the river and it was taken were those people are standing. To show you just how high the river got that year.

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[Sportsdude]

This picture is kind of misleading because the river is 15 to 20 ft lower then it looks here.

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  They need to clean up the river front in my opinion. Its horrid. The Admiral a silver looking casino boat (which you will see later I think) was hit by a barge and almost sunk. They moved it up river a km or so and now this stupid helicopter tours thing is in its place. Then you've got the Casino Queen across the river and if you look out on the park towards Illinois all you see is a giant grain elevator that they need to blow up because it uglifies the area. Then there is a Tom Sawyer cruise boat also. At least the floating mcdonalds sunk in '93. (Yes it sunk, went off its morings and ran into a bridge sinking it, classic)

[Sportsdude]

Here's the Eads bridge. Its famous because its was the longest bridge in the world when it was built in 1874. It was considered daring because its basically made out of steel and steel trusses. Its one of the deepest dug bridges on the planet. So when the big one (8.0 earthquake) happens this bridge isn't going anywhere (unlike the arch which will crumble in about a billion pieces).

Sorry for the construction, idiots never clean up after themselves got better one of the bridge coming up.

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[Sportsdude]

I did this one because I wanted to one up weird al's bird pic. I even said out loud this ones for you weird al. (of course no one is around) Could have gotten much closer but damn pigeons pooped so I stayed pretty far away (I've got 10x zoom on the thing) it was very windy obviously since it was by the river so I'm shocked the picture didn't end up blurry. (my camera's got this stabilizing thing in it apparently and it sure worked during this photo.

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[Sportsdude]

Here's the better eads bridge photo:

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