still looking for the skyline, but can say for sure it's either some sort of composite or AI created shot; there's no way to get that much sky detail from anyplace anywhere near a city of that size/with that number of lights.
@orioninthenight It wasn't my picture. I could care less if you liked the photo or not. The picture was submitted by 'StarShines', not me. Now you sound delusional and insecure.
At a minimum this is a composite of at least two images ... there is no way you would see a sky like that above a landscape of urban light pollution (or really, anywhere inside of Earth's atmosphere)
But since that sky is reflecting in the water as well, it does seem AI-generated (I don't see how you'd create the reflection just through compositing), so whoever wasted the extra electricity and water to create it should be caned
It looks like it could be inspired by places like Louisville KY, Cincinatti OH, Cleveland OH, Pittsburgh PA, plus some deep space shots from the Hubble or Webb space telesopes
I see another questionable point.... When the night is dark enough to see the Milky Way clearly - so as you say well away from urban areas and bright Moonlight - the galaxy forms a faint, fairly narrow band across the sky but away from it to both sides the firmament is far less populated by visible stars.
The splodge of light to the lower-left does not look real.
@ArishMell the vivid colors also don't seem like anything you would see inside the atmosphere (excepting the more narrow band of the Milky Way in the rural spots where you can actually see it) ... to me vivid colors are something you see in a much narrower context within the atmopshere, like a red lunar eclipse, a green comet, or a hint of color on a planet like Mars ... but still in an adjacent sea of a relative lack of color (i.e., blackness)
Incidentally, building shapes, and the arrangement of buildings in a city, are very distinctive, down to subtle details ... it's easy to look up city xyz in Google Images and glance at a handful of photos and see whether the buildings in the OP's pic match any buildings in any of the suggested cities ... it's also easy to look at a map to see that city xyz has no body of water in / along / around its downtown skyline ... dunno if people are going on their memories, without verifying ...
The buildings in the OP's pic don't match anything suggested so far, for example, Atlanta has no waterfront, Shanghai looks more modern (with taller buildings), and here is Cleveland in comparison:
TinEye searched over 70.2 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears.
@swirlie No, it came across my thread again and I don't have time to read through 100 comments to see if someone answered it. It was a simple question, thats all.
@Teslin Okay, okay, I know you're a busy man! Let me go and get it for you...
swirlie · 31-35, F
Yes, that is the night skyline of Cleveland Ohio, USA. The water in the foreground is actually Lake Erie in the Great Lakes region of Canada with a view looking south from the water at the southern-most part of Canada, which reflects Cleveland's geographical position on the south shore of Lake Erie which of course is on the American side of the lake.
The reason I know this is because that was my exact view as a kid when I looked out my bedroom window of our farmhouse with binoculars, because we lived on the north side of Lake Erie in Canada and straight across from Cleveland Ohio in the USA.
Yes, that is the night skyline of Cleveland Ohio, USA. The water in the foreground is actually Lake Erie in the Great Lakes region of Canada with a view looking south from the water at the southern-most part of Canada, which reflects Cleveland's geographical position on the south shore of Lake Erie which of course is on the American side of the lake.
The reason I know this is because that was my exact view as a kid when I looked out my bedroom window of our farmhouse with binoculars, because we lived on the north side of Lake Erie in Canada and straight across from Cleveland Ohio in the USA.
...says the guy who has a table tennis bat as a profile pic ... i think that's a Universal sign of a 'spanker' - so it should be me throwing up, not you
🤔 and 'duct tape' - so i'm guessing you have a secret basement with chains etc etc
... throwing up BIG TIME
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
🤔 ... what else ...'Reddi Wip' WTF
🤔 ... what else, i shudder to think what the other things are for ...
