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Old 10-11-2005, 02:42 AM   #1
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These threads are always great... forgive the quality, but it's a terrible camera. This is the view I get when I lean out of the window to my left and look right down the street.



I'm interested to see where other people live here, and how things differ from place to place. Where I live is quite green and full of Victorian architecture - it was the richest place in London during the 1800's before it fell from grace! It's also the tallest hill here. On a clear day it goes on for miles.

So, what's the view outside your window like? Office, home, where-ever!
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Old 10-11-2005, 02:52 AM   #2
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View outside my flat is a building site at the moment, and the builders start work every day at 7, including weekends! Argh! Why can't they just drink tea and ogle women like every other builder!

Would trade for your view any day mate, that's pretty nice. Think I'm gonna have to move from London Bridge soon.
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Wow, expensive area. It's nice down here in Forest Hill/Sydenham/Crystal Palace/Dulwich. It's also the cheapest rent in London.
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Behold, the view I wake up to every morning: Volgina Akademika Street. My area is South Moscow, Konkova Region.
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Old 10-11-2005, 03:32 AM   #5
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A great sunset from a couple of years ago, taken on my roof with an old polaroid camera. Sure the film came out a tad darker but not by much. One of those 'apocalypse' sunsets that just leave you breathless.
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Wow, expensive area. It's nice down here in Forest Hill/Sydenham/Crystal Palace/Dulwich. It's also the cheapest rent in London.
Very expensive, only rented it cos it was close to work and a really nice flat. Decent area, but wish I'd known they were gonna start building directly opposite right after I moved!

Been to Crystal Palace before, seems like a good place. Shame about the footy team though
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Old 10-11-2005, 04:48 AM   #7
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No windows in my office...

I've some nice sun setting pictures from my appartment's window, though. I just have to remember to post them...
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Old 10-11-2005, 06:00 AM   #8
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My window is usually shut these days..... I lived on campus until a week+ ago. So I could see these wonderful buildings (at least the blue one - I lived in the building shown at the bottom of the page) and the parking lots between them when I looked outside of my window. Exciting.
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A great sunset from a couple of years ago, taken on my roof with an old polaroid camera. Sure the film came out a tad darker but not by much. One of those 'apocalypse' sunsets that just leave you breathless.
WOW!

The following aren't really revealing much of the area I lived in very much either, but nevertheless they were taken from what used to be my window before I moved together with Pinksie:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fi_son...50.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fi_son...9f.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fi_son...6e.jpg&.src=ph
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(Needless to say, the those skies don't come across even half as good as it was in original.)
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The following aren't really revealing much of the area I lived in very much either, but nevertheless they were taken from what used to be my window before I moved together with Pinksie:

Holy crap. Bad deal. *hides behind the windows taskbar*
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(dad lost camera software, so crappy quality still exists in my pictures)



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Click to expand.


Ok it's night-time and it's been raining all day so you can't see all that much.

I promise during the day when it's nice it's a cracking view of the hills in the distance.

Man I wish I was back in Florida it's rained since I came back.
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I'll lug my laptop with mounted camera over to the window. But I want to wait until it's light outside .
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My work office has a nice window with a wonderful view of the...printer! Inside office, no outside view, and I get to watch people from the back while they wait for their printouts. Lovely!

My view at home is of the church next door. The stained glass windows are nice, but during the hot summer months when everyone has their windows wide open, we get treated to hours and hours of passionate, but atonal, singing from the haitian church goers every Sunday.
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It's a heavy laptop. Those who see it use the phrase "desktop replacement" .
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I'll post my real, and less spectacular, view tommorrow morning. When it isn't pitch black outside, like now.

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Old 10-11-2005, 10:52 PM   #19
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I'm getting a real Hometown America vibe from those, Once. All you need is some kids playing streethockey, and it'd be spot on!
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I'm getting a real Hometown America vibe from those, Once. All you need is some kids playing streethockey, and it'd be spot on!
Ha ha, the kids playing street hockey or street anything does happen right there, just not when I took the pic. They are the reason I park my car in the back, not the front.
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