Loving city photos

Wired's current reader photo challenge is to send in pics of cityscapes that epitomize your town. There are some beautiful little urban valentines in this lot -- I love cities on general principles, and it's pretty clear to me that these photos are shot with a lot of affection. Shown here, by Kristoffer N's "Mumbai India." Link

[#1 posted by searconflex , July 27, 2008 9:35 PM]

" I love cities on general principles"

please explain.

[#2 posted by Antinous , July 27, 2008 9:39 PM]

Are some truths not self-evident?

[#3 posted by searconflex , July 27, 2008 9:50 PM]

no

[#4 posted by Takuan , July 27, 2008 10:12 PM]

what? you don't think you are`as good as me?

[#5 posted by smfr , July 27, 2008 11:19 PM]

Shame that Wired's format for this page sucks so much ass.

[#6 posted by Antinous , July 27, 2008 11:44 PM]

That view frame is indeed remarkable.

[#7 posted by Kieran O'Neill , July 27, 2008 11:53 PM]

#6: The Reddit page (which is what's embedded in the horribly undersized frame on the Wired page) is marginally better. Warning: none of the images are resized, and there's a 3456px × 2304px one in there.

Beautiful photos, though.

[#8 posted by Takuan , July 27, 2008 11:59 PM]

thanks Kieran!

[#9 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 1:42 AM]

I, too, love cities on principle. Places where people gather to take a shot at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...you can't do that in a village or shire.

[#10 posted by Nasty , July 28, 2008 2:31 AM]

Much appreciated link, Kieran.

[#11 posted by Kieran O'Neill , July 28, 2008 4:49 AM]

You're most welcome. :)

[#12 posted by travelina , July 28, 2008 5:36 AM]

National Geographic lets you vote on your favorite reader-submitted shots of the week, and the best ones get published in the magazine. Doesn't have to be cities:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/voting-machine

[#13 posted by Kieran O'Neill , July 28, 2008 5:56 AM]

Hmmm ... I have a beautiful photo I took of sunset over the Canary Wharf tower, through a barbed wire fence in Canning Town, which quite aptly represents my experience of (East) London.

Unfortunately that was in the days when I was using film, and the print and neg are on the other side of the world (and in my memory).

[#14 posted by Agent 86 , July 28, 2008 6:26 AM]

I love one fleeting moment... and Memories from Concrete
(and the boots on the Rich or Poor lady)

[#15 posted by usagizero , July 28, 2008 6:27 AM]

I have a blog as part of this ring, http://citydailyphoto.com/portal/ where people generally try to post a picture a day taken in their city. It's nice as they tend to be "average" people and you get to see the cities (big and small) in ways that others usually don't.

[#16 posted by Drew from Zhrodague , July 28, 2008 7:37 AM]

Shit. As I was putting gasoline in my tank this morning, I noticed that some other patron was emptying his personal tank onto the concrete. I was tempted to take a picture with my iPhone, but I didn't want to get shot, stabbed, beat up, or worse.

SoSide of Pittsburgh has people that will pee on anything, anytime, anywhere.