BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Silver Spring -- Views from NOAA Building 2

MD -- Silver Spring -- Views from NOAA Building 2:

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1. NOAAVW_021227_005.JPG: The middle building is the new headquarters of the Discovery communication giant. The parking lot in front is for the Silver Spring subway station which you can't actually see in any of these pictures because I'm too high up. The low building just in front and to the left of the Discovery headquarters is a one-story McDonald's store which you'll see more of.
2. NOAAVW_021227_019.JPG: These condos/apartments/whatever took a number of years to be built.
3. NOAAVW_021227_024.JPG: Look closely at the parking lot for this McDonald's. It holds roughly four cars. I presume almost all of their traffic is foot traffic near the subway and other office buildings.
4. NOAAVW_021227_041.JPG: This tower used to be prominently labeled with the name of the radio station based there -- WGAY -- but I guess they were embarrassed by the name over time.
5. NOAAVW_021227_046.JPG: The building in the distance is the National Cathedral which is about 8 miles away.
6. NOAAVW_021227_063.JPG: The buildings in the distance are part of Tysons Corner, about 15 miles away.
7. NOAAVW_021227_066.JPG: The buildings in the distance are located in Bethesda
8. NOAAVW_021227_077.JPG: In the distance is Rockville
9. NOAAVW_021227_091.JPG: I had never noticed this apartment complex that they were building here. Note the Christmas tree on the top of the parking structure. The street on the right is Colesville Road which is feeding into a traffic circle where it merges with 16fh Street.
10. NOAAVW_021227_098.JPG: The dip in the background should be Rock Creek Parkway
11. NOAAVW_021227_108.JPG: Note the smokestack, something you don't see much of in Silver Spring
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Description of Subject Matter: The NOAA buildings in Silver Spring were originally the tallest buildings in the area. As such, on a clear day you could see an incredible distance, perhaps 75 miles. This included the tall structures in Washington DC (the Capitol, Washington Monument, National Cathedral, etc), Rockville, Sugarloaf Mountain, Tysons Corner, and the Shenandoah mountains in central Virginia.
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2002 photos: Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints. Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day. Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south. This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free!
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