I love taking photographs of urban cityscapes from a high vantage point. Especially when the light is just right. I tend to seek them out wherever I go - often slamming on the brakes when driving through strange towns, pulling over and grabbing my camera to capture the view for fear of it never looking like that ever again. I've taken a couple recently that I'm particularly pleased with. The one above is in Sheffield. The city is built on seven hills; I was definitely standing at the top of one of them that day. The one below is nearer to home. It was taken from the top of Carlton Hill in Nottingham. Way off in the distance you can see my second favourite power station: as the crow flies it's 11.2 miles from Point A (Carlton) to Point B (Ratcliffe-on-Soar). If said crow doesn't veer off course, of course.
And that's when I got to thinking: I bet the Germans have got a word for this kind of thing. Turns out they have. Several in fact. Here's a couple: panoramablick über die stadt. Or, more poetically/succinctly: stadtüberschau.
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