Today’s mystery is a distinctive photograph that may have startled many of you. We’ve never seen anything like this. So where is it? Send your guess to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
What we thought the last Mystery Photo was pretty obvious and tried to throw our readers off with our introduction. It apparently worked for many, though not for three: George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex. The photo came from Vera Forkner of Duluth.
Peel wrote of how he came to figure this out: “So many canals … so little time. My first reaction was the photo was probably shot along a canal in the Netherlands (never been there), so that is where I started my search. Figured I might as well start in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands.
“What a maze of canals! Did you know that Amsterdam has 62-miles of canals? I certainly didn’t! So I looked at Google Maps Street View from all of the bridges for one that features this view. Uhg! Did you know that Amsterdam has more than 1,500 bridges crossing over the canals?
“I needed to narrow the search down some more. So I looked for some specific clues in the photo, and I noticed that there was a rather unique looking weathervane in the top left of the picture. Anticipating that there may be a number of such landmarks to look through, I decided to also use the white building as a second landmark to focus on. Finally, I noticed that there was a bend-left in the canal just beyond the bridge in the distance in the mystery photo. So with these three landmarks in mind, I searched Google Satellite view for similar landmarks, and after about 15-minutes of ‘cruising’ the canals of Amsterdam in Google Maps 3D view, I finally found the exact location where the photo was taken, facing southeast, down the Prinsengracht Street canal, between the bridges at Leidsestraat and Spiegelgracht streets.”
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