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Regular poster 362 posts Peter Pfotenhauer Regular poster 362 posts
Peter Pfotenhauer

Is it just my imagination or is it harder to find backdrop type photos of western buildings than eastern structures, but the opposite when it comes to rural photos?  Perhaps I am not looking in the right places online, but most flats, or background urban shots seem to feature eastern areas, whereas finding background shots of mountains or scenery is pretty even Stephen.

 

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ctxmf74 Super User 15,990 posts
ctxmf74

probably because the west

has more interesting scenery (and much more open spaces) while the east has more older interesting buildings? Remember the west wasn't intensely developed until WW2 for the most part so the east had a big head start...DaveB

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dkerber123 Regular poster 262 posts
dkerber123

Dave is spot on

He took the words right out of my mouth, err um, typing fingers. I was thinking the same thing, but I guess I could add that most people who model the west choose to model the vast expanses of desert, the Rocky Mountain highs, the Sierra Nevadas (Feather River/Donner Pass), or the Pacific Northwest. I do see more and more layouts set in LA/SF areas though.

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Dan
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Pelsea Prolific poster 2,398 posts
Pelsea

Little boxes

I would say that eastern structures, with 300 years of variety all mixed up, generally look compelling, but there is very little of interest in suburbia. pqe
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Bremner Prolific poster 1,217 posts
Bremner

California buildings....

getting a backdrop for California is REAL hard, there is a few issues...

1. earthquakes! Since 1900, there have been 49 quakes OVER 5.0 in the Richter Scale. I grew up in Long Beach, and I do not remember many brick buildings...there were plenty in 1933....

 

 

2. Architecture. Look at the buildings of Los Angeles and San Francisco. You can tell the city by the buildings

 

 

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