Hi all,

Strange request this one, but I'm bored today!

I sometimes take pics of the squirrels & birds which we get alot of round here, mainly to show my neice. Anyhow, this is the main window I take them from, which is also where I do my artwork. I just thought it'd be interesting to see the view others have from where they do their art.
Do some of you have amazing inspirational views which help your creative brain get into gear?
Where I'm living at the moment it's only a backyard, but at least there's some trees. When I lived with friends I only had a skylight to look at!

Anyone up for it?

Nice view :) I know what you mean after liveing in a city for decades and am now out in the country.
You can see the view on my artist page here behind my photo.
We have a ton of birds too. Plus geese and ducks by the truck load :) Possums and minks.
Often in the morning, sitting at the kitchen table drinking my morning coffee I see dear come out to the waters edge.
And turkeys, got a bunch of them this year :)

Well, the first thing I see is our balcony railing. Beyond that is a parking lot and a hedge of rosebushes. Right now they are rather transparent, but once the leaves grow the road will be hidden. On the other side of the road are more houses, six stories high.

Turning my head a bit I can see the crossroads with the traffic lights, a Hesburger a gas station, a carwash and the shopping center which hosts a grocery store, video rental, pet food shop, a hair dresser, a pizza and kebab joint (yumm) and a local pub I would not set my foot in unless I got paid to do it.

It really isn't as bad as it might sound. In the Summer it gets green and at night the coloured lights are pretty. We also get quite a few birds, some even come sit on the railing. (Unfortunately they often leave a white calling card behind.)

This is my view at night  in the dead of winter

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Here is is from a different angle taken in the summer.

This was taken  looking up river from  the bridge you see to the right  in the winter picture. The lights along the right are actually lights lining a river walkway, which are actually across from my building.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Not exactly outside my window, but a few blocks up.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

@Acadia -- the first picture looks like a landscape from either a post-apocalyptic fantasy story or else perhaps a near-future background scene from the movie Blade Runner.  Neat.

The second image looks like a nighttime paradise.

The third image looks like many of the places that I've spent a lot of time working in over the years.

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Quote - @Acadia -- that looks like a landscape from either a post-apocalyptic fantasy story or else perhaps a near-future background scene from the movie Blade Runner.  Neat.

The winter one? Chalk it up to weather colder than Syberia!!!  :blink:

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Quote - The winter one? Chalk it up to weather colder than Syberia!!!  :blink:

Yeah -- it's the global warming thing kicking in, don't 'cha know...........

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I don't have a camera, so will let Google Street View do the job inversely.

The arrow points to my shack, halfway concealed behind a fence...
the visible window is the same one I'm facing when I sit at the computer.

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Quote - I don't have a camera, so will let Google Street View do the job inversely.

The arrow points to my shack, halfway concealed behind a fence...
the visible window is the same one I'm facing when I sit at the computer.

Oh! Can I do that same thing for Winnipeg?

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

You can try.  Just enter your full address, and Google will give you
a map.  Double-click on your actual location to get as close as
possible, then click the Street View button.

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Quote - You can try.  Just enter your full address, and Google will give you
a map.  Double-click on your actual location to get as close as
possible, then click the Street View button.

I get a map, but there is no street view button/link. I guess it's not available in my area yet.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

They did a lousy job of taking a photo in my area!

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 Balboa Park (just beyond the buildings) was designed by the same guys that created Central Park.

Thank god Im moving to the TN mountains in July - this view is certainly not inspirational!

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> Quote - > Quote - @Acadia -- that looks like a landscape from either a post-apocalyptic fantasy story or else perhaps a near-future background scene from the movie **Blade Runner**.  Neat. > > > > The winter one? Chalk it up to weather colder than Syberia!!!  :blink:

Yeah what she said! The ski areas are still open on the weekends here!

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Quote - > Quote - The winter one? Chalk it up to weather colder than Syberia!!!  :blink:

Yeah -- it's the global warming thing kicking in, don't 'cha know...........

The Gorical of Alphi says that new Al-Gore-ithmic 'climate models' have been ...synthesized... that can explain that to you with real science.

"We should replace scientific inquiry with faith." - Al Gore, spokesman of the world's real scientific community.

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Here is the view from my desk. Not very cool, and the window is not facing me either.

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And the view from my living room. Much better with all this green (but i bet they will construct some building soon...). And i have a great view on the two headed cathedrale of my town, not like the Eiffel Tower, but it does the trick for me LOL

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I like that second view vincebagna. Is the railing from a balcony?

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Yep! The tiny balcony full of bonzais of my flat :) I even have a little apple tree, unfortunately i had only a few apples this year (they have the size of a hazelnut!) ^^

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This is my window at work. Is it any wonder I'm nuts? :bored:

It's better at home. I need to mow the lawn, though, if the ducks will let me. :)

Mow the duck too! :D

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:lol: In our village, the ducks regularly wander about in the road that runs alongside the river, especially during the duckling making season. They're too stupid to get out of the way of cars, preferring to stand in the middle of the road and quack furiously at anything that gets in the way of their courting. When sleepy driver meets aggressive duck, the result is squashed duck. I don't suppose they'd get out of the way of the lawn mower either. :rolleyes:

I once encountered a family of ducks crossing the highway while I was driving 120km/h, only by a quick turn on the wheel I could avoid an accident. Lucky enough it wasn't very busy on the road, but it scared the hell out of me! :scared: :scared: :scared: Anyhow, here is view from my window: nothing very special, just the street in Haarlem where I live.

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And here is a view from my backgarden taken from the balcony.

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view from this mornings window....  over bognor - ground crew forget to arm nukes :)  *

*brit humour - if you've ever been to bognor you'll know why :)

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and this afternoons...

I prefer the morning one - but at £150 a hour per lesson it's not something you do every day :(

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.

This is a picture I took from my window last summer

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And here is the view more along the lines of what I see from the chair in my "Office"

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Great posts everyone.
Interesting to see our different 'inspirational' views!

Just a last one I wanted to show: I took this one last night, hanging out of my attic window ( a bit shaken):  It's the annual fair at the end of our street, for the occasion of  "Queensday" coming wednesday.

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FWIW... 'ere it is. Taken last year, just after moving into the place. Beyond the fence is a city-mandated watershed area with a creek where the frogs get to sing me to sleep nearly year-round. It's also chock-full of wild blackberry bushes (got about 6 gallon-bags full in the freezer still from last year's harvest).

This year, I fully intend on adding a deck so that I can peck notes out directly from the backyard...

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Nice one pjz!!
Do they let you have Poser in there?

Quote - > Quote - You can try.  Just enter your full address, and Google will give you

a map.  Double-click on your actual location to get as close as
possible, then click the Street View button.

I get a map, but there is no street view button/link. I guess it's not available in my area yet.

Google is working on street view here now. And boy! Are they ever encountering resistance!  LOL  Seems people don't like to have their images, cars, plates etc on the net.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

I think they blur out  the license plates on the cars in Street View

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View from our lake house.  It's lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug.

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Quote - They did a lousy job of taking a photo in my area!

You should be able to rotate the view 360 degrees to find whatever you're looking for. I know I can on my street.