Pictures and Videos of Downtown Raleigh

[kjhburg]

Happy New Year’s Raleigh and you don’t even know how much AI I had to use to get this image. Trees, acorns, bus rapid transit, and the hopefully future Gondola skylift to Dix Park.

[wey]

i’ll say it! can we leave the ai slop in 2025? happy new year though <3 nothing personal

[wey]

ok, got the eye roll. i’ll explain myself further. the above is neither a picture, nor a video of downtown raleigh. in fact, it is barely a picture at all. it is an amalgamation of what a computer thinks looks cool after parsing through countless pieces from actual artists, and what it succeeds at is looking like doodoo! i don’t mean to be a grinch. i just think we can do better, a lot better, with the talents of the people in this community.

stepping off soapbox, no further questions

[BlakeB]

Happy New Year!

[BoringRaleigh]

I think this tree looks much better than the overhead picture of downtown Raleigh last night on New Years. This tree represents the beauty of our culture. AI is America. God bless.

[wey]

…anyway here’s a photo i shot from dix hill! always love this view

[Jake]

…are you saying you appreciate my copy/paste + Microsoft Paint doodles???

[wey]

legitimately so much lol. keep them coming

[evan.j.bost]

Yes. Must sip slowly

[John]

I went back to Leo’s first post in the topic and clicked raleighskyline.com and noted that Matt hasn’t posted anything there in nearly a year. Does anyone know what’s happened to Matt and his site?

[OakCityDrone]

Not sure, but his last FB post was on Christmas Eve.

[JKK]

A couple throw back photos from 2012 (with old instagram filters lol).

[sthomper]

its coming along…………

[Jake]

Love this view of 400 Hillsborough- almost can’t see the parking deck!

[Vatnos]

another version - https://imgur.com/lh1Onaz

And I feel like this would be a Goodnight! Raleigh post

[Vatnos]

It seems my photos are getting so big they’re crashing Imgur. Might have to restart my Flickr subscription. Is there a better hosting site these days? I’m out of the loop. Apologies to anyone who tried to maximize only for it to crash their browser.

[wey]

showed up fine for me… i think you might just need a better computer / handheld computer

[OakCityDylan]

Even though I’m an iPhone user since day 1, I use Google Photos extensively and if I’m sharing a photo, it’s using Google Photos.

[BoringRaleigh]

Cool vintage pictures. Raleigh has really come along. But seriously, I love the pictures and I miss the Charles Meeker era of ambition…

[GucciLittlePig]

Forget BRT, this is my new preferred method of transit.