Does anyone know which city this is???

[hunter]

I found a disposable camera in Monterey, California. No pictures of people, nothing remarkable, just pictures of this city and Monterey.



I'm not feeling too bad for the person who lost it, and judging by the shape the camera was in, it was lost a long time ago.

Sometimes I get old film developed for fun... and always cross my fingers that there will be no pictures I have to explain to the police.

[HopeHoops]

1. I don't know what city it is, but all of the boats are built for shallow water.

[taterguy]

2. Morehead City, NC

[hunter]

3. Do they have a large Asian population?

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Panama City, Panama?

I googled that and added 'skyline'. Could be?

[hunter]

5. I think you are onto something...

Zooming in I get these...





If only I could read the traffic signs...

[Dead_Parrot]

6. Can you make out the road sign or billboard in the original?

Can't do it in the scan, but might give a clue.

[hunter]

10. Nope. It was just a throwaway camera with a plastic lens.

The negative isn't much better, just fuzzier looking.

Costco does pretty good scans, these are 3088 X 2048, which I'm guessing is pretty close to the resolution of the camera.

[Dead_Parrot]

16. Looks like it from the close-ups

That seems to be the film grain emerging. I think you're right about the mix of latin and logograms/pictograms which suggests somewhere like Shanghai or Hong Kong (Especially the latter given the hills), but I can't place the scene...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. What a cool find, my dear Hunter!

It does have an Asian feel to it...

Interesting pic!

[hunter]

9. I'm going with Asian again.

Here's another picture...



You'd think an international tourist would take pictures that could be immediately identified. But no, the Monterey pictures are just as odd. No Cannery Row or Monterey Bay Aquarium, no Fisherman's wharf...

[Art_from_Ark]

22. Cannery Row is just a bunch of tourist shops

Not worth taking pictures of

[hunter]

23. The photographer was interested in rocks, fish on ice or in buckets, and building construction...

... anyone know that person???

[rug]

8. I've asked that myself many a groogy morning.

[hunter]

15. Heh. Once upon a time when I was young and foolish I was drinking tequila in Tijuana, ...

... and I woke up on the floor of some stranger's apartment in San Diego. I've no recollection of crossing the border.

[rug]

21. Anything that begins Once upon a time when I was young and foolish I was drinking tequila in Tijuana

does not end well.

Without exception.

[cbayer]

11. San Francisco? That looks like Coit Tower on the hill in the top right.

[Tikki]

12. Calgary Canada!!!!I don't know...maybe?

Maybe somewhere in Western Canada...





Tikki

[marmar]

13. Hong Kong?

nt

[hunter]

14. I've never been to Hong Kong.

Just from movies and travel mags and stuff it was looking like that to me.

The Billboard looks like a mix of English and Chinese if you squint your eyes. I see "Body by..." and then some Chinese text. But I could be wrong.

[Dead_Parrot]

17. Hong Kong - North Point from the Causeway Bay Marina

[pink-o]

18. Yup. My first thought was Hong Kong as well.

I think we have a winner!

[hunter]

19. Woohoo!

The building construction picture I posted is the The Hanoi Road high rise project.

Judging by the rate of construction, the Hong Kong pictures are a few years old.



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K11_(shopping_centre)

Oh dear, this was fun! It's not as if I needed further incentive to visit out of the way places and kick through random piles of litter.

[Dead_Parrot]

20. Glad you figured the building out...

I was starting to go cross-eyed staring at skyscrapers.

[Kali]

25. oooo this sounds like the beginning to good novel!

[ellisonz]

26. Now where's Jackie Chan? n/t

[zanana1]

27. There's alot of smog....

In my professional opinion, I think it's a city with a shoreline and lots of boats.