Inspiring Cityscapes

Posted in InspiringMar 27, 08 | 02:13 pm

Mubashar Iqbal

I’ve been fortunate enough to live in some of the biggest and most inspiring cities in the world — London, New York, San Francisco, Boston and have visited many more.

One of the things I love about big cities is the views of their skyline. When I lived in San Francisco I would to ride my bike over the Golden Gate bridge and look back at the cityscape. In New York, I lived in Brooklyn, and always be awed at the view of the city whilst crossing the bridge back to my Park Slope apartment (I always seemed to take the subway into the city and a cab home, go figure).

I was going to post some of my photographs here, but after looking around Flickr for a while I found these gems that far outshine my pictures.

You’ll notice that a lot of the photographs are shot at night, probably another reason I like Light on Dark, the colors in some of these shots are just amazing.

San Francisco

New York City

London

Boston

Albany

Nearest city to where I live now.

Chicago

Seattle

Detroit

Denver

Hong Kong

Shanghai

Melbourne

Hawaii

What are your favorite cityscapes?

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Author: Mubashar Iqbal
Mubashar Iqbal is the creator of Most Inspired, a web designer and developer, who has been building websites for over 13 years. You can read his blog at Mubashar Iqbal

inspiring commentary

March 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pmBennett

Great pictures, must say it’s hard to pick a favorite out of all of those. Dallas skyline would be another one that I think might make a good addition to that list.

March 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pmtelandweb

Correct me if i’m wrong, but most of this pictures use High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography Techniques.

That is why you see with those colors. Any way this type of picture are always pretty.

March 29th, 2008 at 9:30 amMubashar Iqbal

@telanweb: You are correct most of the night shots are using HDR techniques.

March 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pmTy Gfx

I’ve had some ideas to take city scapes and trace them with a pen-tablet, and take out the actual details completely and make it look like paper cutouts, or posterize the details.
There was another Photoshop tutorial how to take skylines and wrap them around a circle like a globe, may have been a print only UK magazine though.
Adding this one to my basecamp creativePath.

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April 11th, 2008 at 3:23 amJuanan Ruiz

My favourite one is Sevilla.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/isanet/285588869/
Great collection.

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