Louisiana | Photo of the Day

[richyb83]

Wow, very nice indeed. I really like the barrier island pics alot. Which island is that ?

Great night-time photo's at LSU. Thanks for posting those. What a great atmosphere on Saturday nights.

[lasportsman91]

Wow, very nice indeed. I really like the barrier island pics alot. Which island is that ?

Great night-time photo's at LSU. Thanks for posting those. What a great atmosphere on Saturday nights.

The barrier island is called Racoon Island in the Last Island island chain, south of Cocodrie.

[Mith242]

Nice looking pics guys. Nate with all those bright lights not having a tripod doesn't appear to have been too hard of a problem. I like going for that 'star-like' pattern on the lights myself.

[lasportsman91]

A storm i saw on I-12 heading to Baton Rouge.

A storm in Metarie.

sorry about the large picture size.

Edited October 6, 2006 by lasportsman91

[dan326]

It looks like that'll swallow you up.

[richyb83]

Nice weather pics. Those are some mean looking clouds. The storm in the first photo has some serious turbulence.

[Mith242]

I don't those pics are too large at all. Nice looking pics by the way. I also like to take weather related pics as well when I get the chance.

[dimebag1980]

Damn those are some scary clouds.

I don't like scary clouds.

Good shot though.

[SlidellWX]

Sweet storm pics. The one in BTR has some striations near the base of the updraft...which shows that storm had some rotation going on.

[lasportsman91]

I took this picture during sunset one evening.

[NCB]

Quoting one of my favorite LSU T-shirts:

"Death Valley, home of 92,400 of your closest friends"

[Mith242]

Weird cloud pic lasportsman91 and some nice game pics Nate, just in time for game day.

[bluff2085]

Well heres the exact quote from wikipedia "WAFB Tower Baton Rouge is a 525.8 metre (1725.07 ft) high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM and TV-programs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA at 30

[dan326]

I was having so much fun strecthing other building, I decided to strecth some other buildings in Louisiaana.

Here's the State Capitol. It looks kind of freaky, like it took some Viagra.

Here's One Shell Square, as tall as it's counterpart in Houston.

Here's the AmSouth Building. I think it looks the best.

[NCB]

Cool idea, Dan! And I agree with you about Amsouth Tower, it looks like that would be a great design for a tower, no matter how tall it may be.

But just a note, you do know that One Shell Square in New Orleans is only 18 feet shorter than One Shell Plaza in Houston, right?

[richyb83]

Wow Dan that's really neat. The State Capitool looks old Manhattan style; but it doesn't look safe being so narrow the Capitol would break in half.

That's a nice comparison with Houston.

The Am South definitly looks the best stretched-out. Brian would be proud.

[NCB]

We're having a beautiful, cool, and crystal clear night here in SE Louisiana, complete with a full moon. I decided to go out and enjoy the night, and ended up taking over 50 photos of the moon using my tripod, in order to se what I could come up with using different shutter speeds, exposures, zooms and positions, etc.

Here are some of the different pictures I took through the night:

[dan326]

But just a note, you do know that One Shell Square in New Orleans is only 18 feet shorter than One Shell Plaza in Houston, right?

I was talking about the JPMorganChase Tower.I thought the New Olreans tower was based off of the Houston JPMorganChase Tower. I thought I had read that they were based after each other, but I guess I got them confused with something else.

[NCB]

I was talking about the JPMorganChase Tower.I thought the New Olreans tower was based off of the Houston JPMorganChase Tower. I thought I had read that they were based after each other, but I guess I got them confused with something else.

One Shell Square in New Orleans is almost an exact copy of One Shell Plaza in Houston, which was built one year earlier and is only 18 feet taller. They both obviously contain major offices of Shell Oil. Both towers were designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.

One Shell Square- New Orleans

Built: 1972

Stories: 51

Height: 697 feet

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One Shell Plaza- Houston

Built: 1971

Stories: 50

Height: 715 feet

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[dan326]

One Shell Square in New Orleans is almost an exact copy of One Shell Plaza in Houston, which was built one year earlier and is only 18 feet taller. They both obviously contain major offices of Shell Oil. Both towers were designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.

Oh, I didn't even know Houston had one.

Cool pictures. A perfect precursor for Halloween.

[Mith242]

I've tried taking some pics like that Dan. A full moon can be a bit hard. You can get too much light reflecting off the moon around such a dark area the camera has a hard time using the right aperture setting. My best shots have come putting the moon slighlty behind a tree. You can get some interesting shots like that.

[NCB]

My best shots have come putting the moon slighlty behind a tree. You can get some interesting shots like that.

That's exactly what I tried to do when I first went out at about 9pm. I agree though, you can definately get some great shots with the moon behind a tree, especially a full moon.

[Mith242]

That's exactly what I tried to do when I first went out at about 9pm. I agree though, you can definately get some great shots with the moon behind a tree, especially a full moon.

You can get some shots of a totally exposed full moon, but you have to work the aperture and shutter a bit so it doesn't end up being too bright and overexposed.

[richyb83]

Nice shots with the full moon. I was unsuccessful at the full moon shots last nite as it began to rise over the horizon around 7:15/7:30. It was very orange and HUGE too.

[lasportsman91]

The Mississippi River riverfront in New Orleans.