Atlanta Skyline pics

[SOUTHWESTATL]

Liked your photos... Atlanta has such a large skyline, it's hard to get it all in one picture. Buckhead has a skyline some larger cities would kill for. I wonder how many more highrises Buckhead can support?

This pic proves your point about buckhead.

[Lady Celeste]

SouthwestATL, that is a great picture with Upper Midtown in the foreground. Close to Upper Midtown you can see Lindbergh Center, then Buckhead and off in the distance there is Perimeter Center. That is such a great shot and so very crisp.

[waltand07]

SouthwestATL, that is a great picture with Upper Midtown in the foreground. Close to Upper Midtown you can see Lindbergh Center, then Buckhead and off in the distance there is Perimeter Center. That is such a great shot and so very crisp.

true the picture is very well defined, it shows how buckhead is like a whole different city. It is starting to become more dense, the way downtown atl should have started off.

[spectacle21]

March 2006 - Driving on the Downtown Connector

April 2006 - From atop the Georgia 400 Ramp

September 2006 - From Howell Mill Road

May 2006 - Gray Day in the "A"

September 2006 - Midtown Glory

[Newnan]

very nice pics

[adelosky]

Does anyone have any good high res pics of the skyline? I've been searching the internet for some that will look good on a 1400x1050 screen, but all I can find are smaller photos.

[johnk812]

Man, loads of LA dissing! My two cents, I like LA.

Nice Atlanta skyline pics. I've rarely, if ever, seen any good street level shots of Atlanta though. I wonder how nice all these highrises are when walking through on foot. They look great from a distance for sure.

[perimeter285]

Part of the reason LA is not considered the capital of sprawl is because even with it sprawling over an enormous area, it still maintains a mind-boggling population density of over 7,000 people per sq. mile. Atlanta's is a shade over 1,000 as defined by the 20-county CMSA (but it's growing).

[swampfox43]

I flew into McCollum Field yesterday and took this photo on approach. Not the best photo by all means but it shows the many beautiful skylines of metro Atlanta.

[Andrea]

swampfox, amazing!!

How about a little Photoshopping? Let me know if you'd rather me take this down.

[swampfox43]

Wow Andrea! Hard to believe that was my photo. I didn't even think about Photoshopping it but I am impressed with your results. Which filters or adjustments did you use?

[Andrea]

Wow Andrea! Hard to believe that was my photo. I didn't even think about Photoshopping it but I am impressed with your results. Which filters or adjustments did you use?

[Spartan]

I never understood why Atlanta is deemed capitol of Sprawl when Los Angeles could drown us in it's own and no one notice.

P.S. I like that LA panorama until I noticed that thick smog... Fellow Atlantans behold your future.

[perimeter285]

Riverside-San Bernardino, CA (greater LA)

Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC

Raleigh-Durham, NC

Atlanta, GA

Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury, CT (greater NYC)

Knoxville, TN

Oxnard-Ventura, CA (greater LA)

Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

[Spartan]

Spartan, I'm not sure I understand this list? Is it a list of the most sprawling cities? If so, what were the criteria for the rankings?

[perimeter285]

Awesome! Thanks

[RestedTraveler]

Here are a couple that I took while just passing through:

[nowensone]

I attempted to take some while on our way back from TG holiday this past Sunday night, but it was like trying to steer a bumper car blindfolded via a remote control. The traffic was nuts, people there drive as fast as I do. ATL's skyline seems larger each time I see it, soon it will be as long as Chicago's [from certain angles], just a little more infill is necessary.

[RestedTraveler]

I attempted to take some while on our way back from TG holiday this past Sunday night, but it was like trying to steer a bumper car blindfolded via a remote control. The traffic was nuts, people there drive as fast as I do. ATL's skyline seems larger each time I see it, soon it will be as long as Chicago's [from certain angles], just a little more infill is necessary.

[nowensone]

^ I was using my phone since I, um, smashed my digital camera a coupla months ago, but nothing worth transferring, tweaking and posting, yours are pretty good for car shots. Came into ATL via I-20, then got onto 85N heading to NC, as we were heading out of ALT (east side), the traffic began backing up, and was backed up all the way into Greenville - I REALLY felt sorry for those people. If I ever have reason to move to the area, I am buying a condo Downtown, f*&k the metro area, not doing it, I drive too much as it is already.

Sorry for the rant...

[perimeter285]

Well it doesn't help when our brilliant GDOT has I-75 shut down to ONE LANE during the Thanksgiving holiday. (Just north of Cordele and south of Perry)

I sat in a 8 to 10 mile backup.

[RestedTraveler]

Well it doesn't help when our brilliant GDOT has I-75 shut down to ONE LANE during the Thanksgiving holiday. (Just north of Cordele and south of Perry)

I sat in a 8 to 10 mile backup.

[perimeter285]

And did you happen to see what they were doing there? Merely installing concrete barricades. Give me a break. That couldn't wait until after the holidays?

[Andrea]

Goings-on in the Peachtree-Piedmont block:

[Martinman]

Some nice aerials from flickr (thanks to their contributors)

DT 1951

DT 1961

Present day DT

From a distance