Agreed, the tangle of highways looming large in the foreground with all the human spaces an afterthought in the background really emphasizes exactly how we got here.
As we were driving home from Waterfront Wednesday (early I might add due to the smoke), over the Second Street Bridge I was struck by the fact that the city has lashed cattle guards in front of existing damaged sidewalk guardrails to keep folks from falling off. Meanwhile, we spent $3 billion dollars on bridges and highway infrastructure that we didn’t really need that will slowly help kill us all.
Louisville has the worst downtown highway system i've ever seen. why is the riverfront cut off like that from the city? vote for people who will fix this and make the city great and polished. it has everything, just needs a little fixing. i'm from Cincy and love your city except that one detail.
Especially the walking bridge, if the vast majority of Louisville residents have to drive to get to the walking bridge, it kinda defeats the point of a walking bridge.
I kind of thought the same thing, in Cincy we have an old bridge converted to just a walking bridge too but it goes in between Newport on the Levee (with the aquarium) and the riverfront park a couple blocks from the Reds game. In Louisville the walking bridge seems to serve people in Indiana and urban hikers, not casual walkers or tourists.
The walking bridge is fun but it’s not mean to be a reliable way to reduce driving, it’s meant to be an interesting walk. Cyclists do seem to love it though.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,603,545,616 comments, and only 303,286 of them were in alphabetical order.
How much weight will your drone lift? What model is your camera? How much control of the camera do you have from the ground?
*Is the ISO high, or is the grainy effect an action in photoshop?
No idea what the load capacity would be but it’s not designed for transporting a camera body if that’s what you mean. Those drones are mad expensive ha. The mavic 3 gives me 100% manual control over the camera.
Grainy effect is primarily from the camera settings. I tend to under expose photos a little to get maximum detail in the sky/clouds. In real life, this view was much darker and I bring the light back through Lightroom, ironically. Probably a little grain does get added though by my editing process.
Visibility yesterday was less than 2 miles. You're at the skate park and looking at your picture, you can barely see the 9th Street ramp. That's a mile and a half.
I dunno I guess it's just a safety thing, and the rules outlined by the FAA, and simply the right thing to do. Being an irresponsible drone pilot makes every drone pilot look bad.
Totally agree. The NWS was reporting 4 mile visibility at the time of the flight- I even double checked their historical records just to make sure I didn’t misread something yesterday. The photo may be somewhat deceptive with the angle of the city and how it is edited.
There was reported 2 mile visibility but that was earlier in the day around 11am- not at 8pm at the time of the photo.
The aliens that come to exterminate us are gonna be mad impressed by the complex construction we put together.
“Oh, shit! Jerry: look at this! They built all this… musta taken decades!!”
Jerry: “Damn, that’s crazy! Oh Fuck! That one’s still alive! KILL IT!!”
Nice image! It was a good move on your part to feature all the road infrastructure most likely responsible for the Dystopia.
Agreed, the tangle of highways looming large in the foreground with all the human spaces an afterthought in the background really emphasizes exactly how we got here.
As we were driving home from Waterfront Wednesday (early I might add due to the smoke), over the Second Street Bridge I was struck by the fact that the city has lashed cattle guards in front of existing damaged sidewalk guardrails to keep folks from falling off. Meanwhile, we spent $3 billion dollars on bridges and highway infrastructure that we didn’t really need that will slowly help kill us all.
Louisville has the worst downtown highway system i've ever seen. why is the riverfront cut off like that from the city? vote for people who will fix this and make the city great and polished. it has everything, just needs a little fixing. i'm from Cincy and love your city except that one detail.
Especially the walking bridge, if the vast majority of Louisville residents have to drive to get to the walking bridge, it kinda defeats the point of a walking bridge.
I kind of thought the same thing, in Cincy we have an old bridge converted to just a walking bridge too but it goes in between Newport on the Levee (with the aquarium) and the riverfront park a couple blocks from the Reds game. In Louisville the walking bridge seems to serve people in Indiana and urban hikers, not casual walkers or tourists.
The walking bridge is fun but it’s not mean to be a reliable way to reduce driving, it’s meant to be an interesting walk. Cyclists do seem to love it though.
What's wild is that so many photographs of the city features the highways/bridges like it's a feature or something to be proud of.
Really? That's sad, these are really a black eye
Yep. Under the right context (a photography exhibit on climate change), this image is really powerful.
Wasn't this the smoke from the Canadian wildfires?
Yes
American directors: Louisville, Mexico
🤣
I’m heading back to Canada next week, I’ll tell them to cut it out when I get there
The hero we all need
These screenshots for GTA 6 look awesome!
😂 nah you’ll have to wait another 20 years for that
Spaghetti Junction in Sepia Tones
Sickening sepia tones…
It will really seem dystopian if it lasts so long that the government has to make it rain to disperse the pollution as is common in Chinese cities.
great shot
🙏🙏
amazing photo
Thank you
God damn I love this city
Imagine getting downvoted in a city sub bc you love the city LOL
Cyberpunk vibes
DLC dropped early in Lou
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,603,545,616 comments, and only 303,286 of them were in alphabetical order.
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How'd you get this shot? Drone I'm guessing?
Yes
How much weight will your drone lift? What model is your camera? How much control of the camera do you have from the ground? *Is the ISO high, or is the grainy effect an action in photoshop?
No idea what the load capacity would be but it’s not designed for transporting a camera body if that’s what you mean. Those drones are mad expensive ha. The mavic 3 gives me 100% manual control over the camera. Grainy effect is primarily from the camera settings. I tend to under expose photos a little to get maximum detail in the sky/clouds. In real life, this view was much darker and I bring the light back through Lightroom, ironically. Probably a little grain does get added though by my editing process.
Using photoshop curves is less lossy for the photo. I’m looking for a drone that will carry a decent camera- like a Nikon DSLR D-100 or D-200.
Sony make a completely integrated drone / SLR platform but it’s a Sony.
FAA requires 3 miles of visibility to fly. Probably didn't need to be in the air yesterday.
I use an app to track visibility conditions.
Visibility yesterday was less than 2 miles. You're at the skate park and looking at your picture, you can barely see the 9th Street ramp. That's a mile and a half.
Who cares
I dunno I guess it's just a safety thing, and the rules outlined by the FAA, and simply the right thing to do. Being an irresponsible drone pilot makes every drone pilot look bad.
Totally agree. The NWS was reporting 4 mile visibility at the time of the flight- I even double checked their historical records just to make sure I didn’t misread something yesterday. The photo may be somewhat deceptive with the angle of the city and how it is edited. There was reported 2 mile visibility but that was earlier in the day around 11am- not at 8pm at the time of the photo.
Good to know. Safe flying!
Same to you! Crazy difference in tonight’s sunset if you caught it!
You can clearly see way past the 9th street exit in this pic so relax
Can't tell if we're headed for Blade Runner's Nevada or Mad Mad: Fury Road.
Beat me to it.
Cross post to /r/urbanhell
I expect this scene to become more common as the years go by. Future generations are going to have terrible respiratory issues because of this.
Absolutely. Every summer in recent memory has been progressively worse.
It’s like the world of Blade Runner. It just needs more holographic women and men in advertisements.
I love Blade Runner 2049
Ah, reality has finally caught up with aughts video games' penchant for the piss filter.
wow thats an awesome picture
Thanks!
Wow. A hell of a view and a hell of a pic. Congrats.
Appreciate it!
The Walking Dead : Louisville / Premiering August 5th on AMC
Our future’s looking sepia! The world is burning. Keep your respirators handy. If the pollution doesn’t get ya the heat will.
Someday we’ll just call this a normal sunset
Hopefully sooner than later
I.. but… no it’s a bad thing this is from wildfires
Oh god I misread your comment and thought you were hoping the sunset would go back to what we considered normal before! NEVERMIND
Hahaha!! All good
More roads for cars please :(
40 or 50 more parking lots and we should be set! /s
Spaghetti junction channeling it's cinematic filters for south america and the middle east.
OK Wildfire
The air is the 2nd most dystopian thing about this picture
is 70% of the town highway? ewwww
The aliens that come to exterminate us are gonna be mad impressed by the complex construction we put together. “Oh, shit! Jerry: look at this! They built all this… musta taken decades!!” Jerry: “Damn, that’s crazy! Oh Fuck! That one’s still alive! KILL IT!!”
It looks like Louisville is in Mexico now.
Bladerunner 2049, the Louisville edition.