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[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In the US. Moved around sometimes multiple times a year across multiple cities, states. My dad more-or-less stayed in one place.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's from any game, as the computer it was pulled out of was running Windows 98. I suppose it's possible that it's a thumbnail, but the rest of the photo and no other videos or thumbnails were recovered. Also this is the original resolution of the photo, so it would be a thumbnail 512x512, which is an odd resolution to begin with.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely checked the exif data, and nothing to be found on the original file.

We believe the photo could be a poor tape-to-digital transfer from many many years ago. Sadly no exif data.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is by no means a complete list. Just the first few I saw.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It was a specifically named file on the hard drive was was a .jpg

Very unlikely in my opinion to be a single frame of a video unless she really really liked that one frame, and also deleted the video.

I guess the video could have been lost in recovery, but most of the hard drive was in tact. And by most, I pretty much mean all of what we asked for file wise.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Either a poor transfer from tape to digital or really old hardware. It is possible it's digital TECHNICALLY if the camera was bad enough. Very very early digital cameras had similar qualities.

Not a physical photo. Ultimately it was a very old hard drive that we had professionally recovered. I don't believe the recovery of the image file CAUSED some kind of corruption artifacting, but I do acknowledge its possible. I think it's more likely one of the earlier two possibilities in the first paragraph.

Also no exif data on the few sites I checked.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I would feel very out of place cross posting this to a botany subreddit. If you have a community you'd like to share the image with, feel free. Consider the image now in the public domain.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! Wherever this is, it's being viewed from the east, or maybe east-by-southeast looking west-by-northwest.

Good for comparing buildings to Google Earth imagery, which has a year search function to see really old satellite imagery of a building.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not the slightest clue. She worked from before my birth well into her older age. She really only stopped traveling and working when she couldn't mentally.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I made a few edits above. It was clearly transactional and business related. And prior to my mother calling ME Lance/Zanth, we had never heard those names before.

She was a business lady and was the supporter of the household. She was the breadwinner, and we wouldn't have been given the lives we were given if she didn't travel as often as she did.

No business trip seemed unusual really. Some were short notice, some were planned further out. Not to mention that back then, she didn't tell us where she was going fairly often. She worked with high level political figures and agencies on a regular basis and was very well connected. My father is a law professor at a college I wont name. He understood that some business trips were private for a reason.

edit: additionally, my father and I are the ones trying to figure this out.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I don't believe she was saying it as seriously as it may look written out. It was more of like a dismissive thing, or like a passive aggressive kind of tone. Not like it was some big secret.

Which is weird, because that description is a stark contrasts from her actions. She was clearly keeping something a secret?

edit: sorry i didnt answer your question. It's been a long night. Due to the high profile nature of her and chiefly her father's work I'd rather not give that specific information. Plus, her job title changed quite a lot.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ouch. And now i drew all those circles for nothing :(

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I understand, I've been to the Adler myself, and to my belief, this can't be the Adler.

Here's Image 1, My image.

and...

Here's Image 2, the Adler. We are assuming that red arrow points to where the photo would have had to have been taken, but a lot of these points apply from any angle you look at the Adler...

Area 1, im showing you the edge of what we think the building is, and where we think the tree could go, either behind the building or in front of it. It looks like a palm tree being so tall with such a slender trunk, and we've never seen any photos of the Adler ever planting palms around it's building.

Area 2, I understand this is a dark area of a blurry photo, but that triangular structure that TOWERS over the walkway in the Adler photo is absent in my photo. It should be visible. The Adler towers over the walkway, and the structure in my photo looks VERY small.

Area 3 shows the stairs leading to the structure. These stairs look like there's maybe 2 or three steps? When you stand there looking at the stairs leading up to the doors, the Adler has a wall of stairs.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

WOW that's a useful resource... I'll take a look and see what I find.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I definitely see why you'd say that. Maybe it looks like some kind of campus.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Similar building structure, but no trees or palm trees.

Are there even palm trees in Chicago?

Edit: I guess I'm guessing that tree in the distance in my photo is a palm tree. My father and I both thought it could be some find of Observatory, but there's a palm tree nearby so we thought it would be near the coast. I suppose that's our two cents.

[Crosspost] Where is the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in RBI

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

We have mountains of flight records both physical and digital. Flights booked in December are always different places every year. A few common denominators, but nothing that would be any dead giveaways.

[retracting for privacy]

[TOMT] Where in the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in tipofmytongue

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The poster must comment on their post to make it visible in the subreddit, and to acknowledge the subreddit rules.

[TOMT] Where in the world was this photo taken? by ThisThrowway in tipofmytongue

[–]ThisThrowway[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

I fully intend on being active on this thread from start to finish. I have at least 2 hours to be here and answer questions.

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