Simviation Forum - Big Ben. (and the Alps, the Sahara, the Riviera, Venice, Eiffel Tower...)

Aug 12^th, 2011 at 8:31pm

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Couldn't decide on a single wonder, so here's a whole bunch of them in one go, from the best seat in the universe.

Shuttle Atlantis by Bruce Fitzgerald, available here. Everything else is thousands of square miles of MS Default. Thanks for looking!

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Reply #1 - Aug 13^th, 2011 at 6:32pm

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I thought this shot was going to be from Las Vegas when I read the title! Grin

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Reply #2 - Aug 13^th, 2011 at 8:00pm

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Fascinating....i like this very much

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Reply #3 - Aug 13^th, 2011 at 9:45pm

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kiwi747 wrote on Aug 13^th, 2011 at 6:32pm:

I thought this shot was going to be from Las Vegas when I read the title! Grin

I actually tried to get some night shots of Vegas, in fact I set the altitude, turned on slew mode, and spent a couple of hours orbiting the globe, changing the time, and taking screenshots of just about everywhere. Even without the moon in it, this one was my (close) favorite tho.

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Reply #4 - Aug 14^th, 2011 at 6:32pm

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Adrian_Monk wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 8:31pm:

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Couldn't decide on a single wonder, so here's a whole bunch of them in one go, from the best seat in the universe.

Shuttle Atlantis by Bruce Fitzgerald, available here. Everything else is thousands of square miles of MS Default. Thanks for looking!

Great shot!

You copied my idea in the regular screenshot showcase didn't you! Grin

I think I'll get myself one of them spaceshuttles for FS.

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Reply #5 - Aug 14^th, 2011 at 11:51pm

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Rotflmao, no I didn't! Roll Eyes

If you wanna know the genesis, it's actually pretty funny. I misread the contest theme and thought it was about scenery. So I spent a day or so taking high altitude shots with the SR-71. Then I saw it was about getting "scenic wonders," but I was already in "high altitude" mode so I decided to snag the shuttle and go for as many wonders as could be crammed into one pic. Had I read it right in the first place, my entry would have been a Dehaviland Beaver skipping over Victoria Falls.

Glad I screwed it up, actually. It's almost meditative using slew mode to orbit the globe with the shuttle, lol! That, and it's a nice farewell, since they closed the door on one of the top three technological advancements in the history of humankind. It made a nice little tribute.

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Reply #6 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 9:38am

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Adrian_Monk wrote on Aug 14^th, 2011 at 11:51pm:

Rotflmao, no I didn't! Roll Eyes

If you wanna know the genesis, it's actually pretty funny. I misread the contest theme and thought it was about scenery. So I spent a day or so taking high altitude shots with the SR-71. Then I saw it was about getting "scenic wonders," but I was already in "high altitude" mode so I decided to snag the shuttle and go for as many wonders as could be crammed into one pic. Had I read it right in the first place, my entry would have been a Dehaviland Beaver skipping over Victoria Falls.

Glad I screwed it up, actually. It's almost meditative using slew mode to orbit the globe with the shuttle, lol! That, and it's a nice farewell, since they closed the door on one of the top three technological advancements in the history of humankind. It made a nice little tribute.

Ah! I was just wondering.
Had my looney idea for it as I went to top down view and wondered "is it possible to zoom out even more?" Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 2:03am

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Very nice. Good luck in the contest.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 2:06am

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This Topic was moved here from Simviation's Screenshot Contest by patchz.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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