Baton Rouge Photo of the Day

[BRPJ]

WOW! that is the most fantastic Downtown BR shot! We have some real photographers on here, with in the last two pages of this thread, i have seen some encyclopedia worthy pictures for downtown BR!

[southeastBR]

Thanks Richy, BRPJ,Dan, and Cajun. I got a digital SLR a while back,and am finding Photograghy a very fun and cool hobby. Edited March 10, 2008 by southeastBR

[buckett5425]

I vote for this to be the best skyline shot.

Someone put it on wikipedia.

i love this shot. haha, ironically, i made it my desktop background earlier last week.

[hagetaka]

good work folk, these pictures are showcasing our city

[dan326]

Here's a quick little skyline rendering I made, with SoutheastBR's photo.

Edited March 11, 2008 by dan326

[richyb83]

Dan, what else can I say. This has to be your best work yet after posting some of your best work last week ; you just keep getting better and better! Excellent detail, accuracy, placement location, etc!

I like how you'll still be able to see One American Place from behind RiverPlace; that will be one massive new Courthouse! And like how II City Plaza be partially behind Shaw Arts Center & be located between the Chase Tower and Governmental Bldg.

Can't wait to see the day this skyline rendering comes to fruition! And what the plans are for the old Advocate site & Hollywood property too.

No prob SEBR. Nice shot of the CBD. Would really like to see another high-rise tower in the middle of all those low & mid-rises. One of those surface parking lots along Fourth Street would be perfect!

Edited March 11, 2008 by richyb83

[cajun]

No prob SEBR. Nice shot of the CBD. Would really like to see another high-rise tower in the middle of all those low & mid-rises. One of those surface parking lots along Fourth Street would be perfect!

You could probably fit big development in that empty parking lot btw Riverplace and the HIlton. I'd like to see a mixed use kind of thing with a hotel, residential lofts over retail spaces (possibly a movie theater). Something like the building that the movie theater in Perkins Rowe is in, except with more residential space over the retail and a 300 room hotel with maybe a seperate mid to high rise office tower...but I'd rather the riverfront area to be primarily hotels and residential. It's the perfect location right there on the river.

There are a couple of areas along 4th street that could fit a high rise office building. IDK what demand is like, though. If they can swing a mixed use tower and distribute risk over a larger market, then it might work. I'd like to see one large high rise office tower around there with a mixed use perkins rowe style bldg on the block near the Hilton with lofts and a mid rise residential development and a hotel. Future office development along North Blvd and Convention street (maybe on govenment too) btw 110 and 4th street would make the skyline look really nice. Maybe some more brownstones in along main street and in other areas along the eastern side of downtown...

It's a shame that I have more and more doubt into riverplace every day. If I were developing it, I'd orient the condo tower to the west side of the block and add in a mid rise hotel along Lafayette street with a complete storefront system and retail outlets on the ground floor and residential lofts directly above.

Edited March 11, 2008 by cajun

[richyb83]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[richyb83]

^Nice ideas cajun

part of downtown BR; Pic taken by my brother on his flight from Dallas.

Edited March 26, 2008 by richyb83

[NCB]

Found a great aerial of downtown Baton Rouge on Flickr, and thought you guys would like to check it out. Here's the link. It was taken by "sabreur76," who has some other great aerials from around downtown Baton Rouge and the LSU campus.

[dan326]

Here it is.

[cajun]

Here it is.

Wow...look at the traffic!

This is why it sucks to cross the bridge at rush hour. Everyone on I-10 has to merge into that....worst design ever.

[richyb83]

Thanks for posting that for us Nate Nice aerials! He got almost the entire downtown. The Tiger Stadium pic was impressive too.

I have been hoping to get a skyline shot from a southeast angle; basically directly below this shot. But it's hard to find a good spot unless I could climb half-way up a cell phone tower or ad billboard. To many trees around the new McKinley Middle Magnet even if I was allowed to climb on top of the roof.

[richyb83]

[cajun]

I take it that this is to bridge the way to the entrance of the shaw center so people visiting don't have to wear a hardhat?

[richyb83]

^You are right Cajun.

The American Queen? boat at BR Landing; U.S.S. Kidd behind the Planetarium; some lawn work between the Old State Capitol and La. Arts & Science Museum

[hagetaka]

from friday...

[buckett5425]

Wow, those are some great shots. In the picture of the Hilton, its nice to see all the people on the 4th floor terrace of the shaw center, it just means that people are actully going downtown. Also, as much as I hate the govermental building, that is a very flattering picture of it.

[richyb83]

Yes indeed LT, nice shots! The Shaw Center roof-top is a great place to take pics. You got a good sunny day. Lighting is everything; the cloudy weather was not really cooperating with me last week when I was taking shots.

Downtown is definetly on the up-swing!

[cajun]

Boy that government building looks aweful in person, but it's not so bad in your picture.

[byrde]

Great Shots!

[hagetaka]

thx yall just a few more to showcase our downtown..

the (gov) building does look horrid, from the ground, but from that shaw level, it looks pretty sweet. I didn't know about the 4th floor, until the day I took these pictures, I'll try to go there if its public.

[dan326]

This is definitely the best picture. The Hilton, King Hotel, and Shaw Center all just look so fresh and perfect.

[richyb83]

I like the contrast of the modern Shaw Center wedged between the historic Hilton & Old State Capitol

Another one from the roof-top

[hagetaka]

I like the contrast of the modern Shaw Center wedged between the historic Hilton & Old State Capitol

Another one from the roof-top

this has to be on of the best rooftops, I've been on, not too high or low, thx for the Muddy Mississippi picture