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A simple game...where am I?

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Mike Shimwell Underdeveloped: An alternative view of the London Eye from a few weeks ago

Mike,

I like the stark nature and the underrepresentation of the wheel or "Eye of London". This reminds me of the power of a simple grayscale instead of color to make one think about things. I guess this view is more existential. It's a pity, I think, that the building overlaps the junction of the wheel and the stone pillar.

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cem,

I nearly missed your reply, LOL! Of course you are correct. congrats. This Catholic priest took to his death the confessions of the Queen! He withstood pressure from the king, didn't break so they tossed him in the river to drown. He's now a saint and touch his form is said to give one good luck when one returns to Prague! I'd like to know who made the rules! Good identification. I thought the actual bridge would be too easy! What gave you the answer?

So it's your turn!

Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Asher Kelman said:
... Good identification. I thought the actual bridge would be too easy! What gave you the answer?
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It is one of those bits of totally useless information which you remember whilst forgetting the really important ones ;-). I had heard about this story before and know a bit about Prague to suspect that this scene might be located there or in some other river focused city in one of the central European countries. For the rest, Google is your friend; LOL.

Asher Kelman said:
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So it's your turn!...
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Well, I am away on a business trip to the UK today and tomorrow so I can't post anything soon enough. So the very first person willing to post a picture, please do so. :)

Cheers,
 
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Mike Shimwell

New member
Taking Cem's turn

Cem_Usakligil said:
Well, I am away on a business trip to the UK today and tomorrow so I can't post anything soon enough. So the very first person willing to post a picture, please do so. :)

Cheers,
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Go on then Cem, I'll take your turn:)

Are you in London on Friday? I'm heading down for a meeting in the morning.

Simple one I think.

Mike


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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Kathy Rappaport said:
No the bikes we re not the giveaway. The sign that said Cambridge Book Fair was the answer.
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Well, there are lots of Cambridges! The bikes clinched it!

Well here's another challenge then, a picture taken after midnight. Just as I was going home with my wife, I saw three things., this from across the river, a girl offering services looking for customers and another couple returning to their hotel.


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I was thinking of watching to see how long it would take to find someone, however, it was not worth squandering my good wife's patience just then!

So where are we located?

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cem_Usakligil said:
Methinks: Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest?
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Once again, Cem, you are so right on! "Széchenyi Chain Bridge"! You even got the name right, another Google success or you just have a brilliant memory, LOL!


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The spires in the background are, I believe, of the Matthias Church (Hungarian: Mátyás-templom) which itself is a capsule of Budapest's history. Casn anyone confirm that?

Congrats! Are you now free to post or still waiting to see the Queen in London?

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Relatively easy, Cem? To what?

We have a mountain range with a housing development embedded.

There's a band of unexplained reflection and also obscuring what's beyond the tire tracks in the moist. So it's somewhere with an earthen shore. A lake perhaps or a man made reservoir.

I cannot as yet figure out what the clouds and hills are reflected in!

Maybe it's a trough of some kind, or a canal.

Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Asher Kelman said:
Relatively easy, Cem? To what?

We have a mountain range with a housing development embedded.

There's a band of unexplained reflection and also obscuring what's beyond the tire tracks in the moist. So it's somewhere with an earthen shore. A lake perhaps or a man made reservoir.

I cannot as yet figure out what the clouds and hills are reflected in!

Maybe it's a trough of some kind, or a canal.

Asher
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The twist I mentioned seems to be working, LOL.

It is not a housing development area. It is not a canal. Clouds and hills are reflected in muddy flood water. Does this help enough?
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Are you saying the top 1/3 is a reflection too? ?I already got it for the mid 1/3!

In the top left, there appears to be buildings. Not so?'

This could be a flood, just a whim of nature. The tracks suggest agriculture.

If the flooding is for agriculture, that would suggest rice paddy's, especially the clay look of the soil. These are not bogs for cranberries. Rice paddys would be commonly found in China, Madagasgar, South America, Missisippi and Vietnam are rice producers.

So how can we localize this better?

Asher
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Asher Kelman said:
Are you saying the top 1/3 is a reflection too? ?I already got it for the mid 1/3!

In the top left, there appears to be buildings. Not so?

Asher
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The line below the black triangle in the top middle is where the reflection starts. There are no buildings. You can see some dunes in the top-left-middle region. This area is normally bone dry and also happens to be under the sea level.

Cheers,
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Could you post the light area within the dark hills on the upper right at 100% as they do appear to look like regular structures but are at the limit of resolution.

My next best bet is that we are looking at a flood in Death Valley, Califoirnia.

Look at this stock photo:


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It does bear some resemblance, LOL!

Asher
 
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