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EP1 ~ "Real Fast! Quack, Quack!"
puddin:
It sure looks like a match Boingo :conf: :cheer: :gj:
Chateau d If:
Nice job Boingo! :woohoo:
I think the photo you put up was taken at the location you circled on the map. It's from the outside looking in. It was taken at the end of the day when the sun was low and having a northerly azimuth. That is why there is a shadow of the western leg (one of two legs of that "U" shaped building having the main enterance in the middel) cast all the way over to the eastern version of the photographed gate structure.
So I'm thinking that our promo shot was eiter taken over on the other side (the Eastern side) in the morning or at the location you circled in the evening. I'll have to put up the shadow times for the evening later.
So my question is: Do you think that the gate on the East would have 8 or 9 columns of doornails?
My inclination is toward an early morning shot at an hours of operation bunch point. But the nail count will be the deciding factor.
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Boingo:
Not sure I totally understood all of that, Chateau, but according to the map, the Forbidden City is aligned on a true North-South axis. The doorway with the racers is on the west side of the square in front of the Meridian Gate. Just looking at the shadows in the promo shot (showing shadows running almost directly north), IMHO I'd say it's "high noon". But I'm no expert. I counted the door knobby thingies and the number matches the promo shot. Am I missing something?
Boingo:
Here's a twist. According to Orbitz, if the racers fly east to Beijing, then they would arrive at 9:30AM. Kinda flies in the face of the race going east to west this time. :umn: Naaaah, can't be. :groan: That's the only way they would be at FC about noon time after arriving. :angel: This is assuming FC is first stop after they get to Beijing. ???
Chateau d If:
Sorry about that. Kind of hard to follow, I know.
Here is what I mean: The doorway in your photo is in the north/south direction and when we look through the doorway we seen the equivalent one on the East side of the square. I circled the one we see through the door in the capture from the 360 viewer.
I put my estimate of the direction of sunshine for your photo on the palace map. In the promo photo the sunshine direction is straight through the doorway and so that means it is shining in an east/west direction.
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