image 12

[Choice]

Here's a map/image correlation the way I see it.
Note the shape of Carl Schurz park and location.
Also Roosevelt Island just off shore.

[XeroDM]

(I'm stealing Choice's image because it was close by...)
Have we been looking for the 3 domes the wrong way around.
I mean, LITERALLY the wrong way around???
Cleveland puzzle had a building hidden in the trees... upside down.
Has anyone flipped the image upside down and looked at the dome image? It looks a lot like a couple of peninsulas or inlets. Why are the domes blue? We've been asking... well, maybe the blue is water, not domes...
This is the point where someone jumps in and says a hunter thought of this about a year back, and you all realise how lazy I am with back-reading the forum posts!

On another note, I have been thinking about this puzzle from the perspective that we need to change the perspective of viewing of the image. We may need to view the dress from a steep angle from the bottom (or top) of the page. When you do this, there seems to be text in the folds of the dress. (If you're working digitally, you can run it through photoshop to emulate the compressed and perspective changes that you would get by tilting the book... and yeah, I know I am anti-photoshop when it comes to these puzzles, but it is reproducing something that can be done physically and simply!) Also, the water below the wave could be viewed with a mirror with a tight curve on it (about the same diameter as a tinfoil tube) to undo a possible anamorphosis. There seems to be some text there too. I can't work what words are there, but there's definitely letters in those areas. Maybe this image is more about how you view it, rather than what you simply see...
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[gManTexas]

(I'm stealing Choice's image because it was close by...)
Have we been looking for the 3 domes the wrong way around.
I mean, LITERALLY the wrong way around???
Cleveland puzzle had a building hidden in the trees... upside down.
Has anyone flipped the image upside down and looked at the dome image? It looks a lot like a couple of peninsulas or inlets. Why are the domes blue? We've been asking... well, maybe the blue is water, not domes...
This is the point where someone jumps in and says a hunter thought of this about a year back, and you all realise how lazy I am with back-reading the forum posts!

On another note, I have been thinking about this puzzle from the perspective that we need to change the perspective of viewing of the image. We may need to view the dress from a steep angle from the bottom (or top) of the page. When you do this, there seems to be text in the folds of the dress. (If you're working digitally, you can run it through photoshop to emulate the compressed and perspective changes that you would get by tilting the book... and yeah, I know I am anti-photoshop when it comes to these puzzles, but it is reproducing something that can be done physically and simply!) Also, the water below the wave could be viewed with a mirror with a tight curve on it (about the same diameter as a tinfoil tube) to undo a possible anamorphosis. There seems to be some text there too. I can't work what words are there, but there's definitely letters in those areas. Maybe this image is more about how you view it, rather than what you simply see...
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I think Forest_Blight did some interesting manipulations (or at least was privy to them) years ago. Basically doing what you've proposed and flattening the stretched out look, not unlike the old MAD or other magazine images that you could adjust with a mirror. This seems fair game to me.

I believe there was a 74 and 41 in the water swirls, and possibly a few other things.

[Choice]

The area between the two domes has resemblance to the east river side of Manhattan, my area of interest. I proposed that a while back and met a lot of resistance.
Nyet, nyet to be exact!

[WilliamTater]

Wailing Wall

[WilliamTater]

Star of David

[WilliamTater]

The ONLY circle of stones..eleven..with a colored one (number 12) the 12 tribes of Israel.

[renovator]

pretty colors

JUD SUB ROSA...

[Choice]

If you are a Queens searcher I tripped over this one:

https://tinyurl.com/y5cvas3w
https://tinyurl.com/yydbvacb

[Choice]

I wonder if this circle was there in the 80’s in Von Briesen Park.
Similar texture and color as the clock.

Rhapsodic man --> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --> Fort Wadsworth area --> Von Briesen Park

https://tinyurl.com/yxe7j6rg

[UnprovenFact]

Initially posted in a different thread:

...However, the most widely accepted view is that “Or May 1913” could only be referring to the USS Maine monument. If this is true, and the May 1913 line is absolutely a nod to a USS Maine monument, wouldn’t it be more logical that this line is pointing us to the larger, more well-known, more obvious USS Maine monument – in New York?? I mean, there is a photo of it in the book, right? It was dedicated in May 1913. It seems pretty straight-forward to me. That might explain why the robed woman in Image 12 looks more like the one on the Maine monument than the Statue of Liberty. Look at the hands.

Now, I am sure there will be pushback from some die-hard New Yorkers on this, like: Verse 10 is NYC!, There is no treasure in Central Park!, Our pizza is better than yours!, etc. I get it. It’s cool. I have even made some good arguments in the past for the Image 2/Verse 6 pairing, which I may have to re-evaluate...

Not sure it helps, but now it is in a more relevant thread. (Also added to Verse 6 thread for the same reason)

[Choice]

Since we are re-posting stuff, checkout this flashback:
(note the reference to whitehouse)
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=754&start=828

Also it's interesting that there are a couple of image matches for the Roosevelt Island and the island is an elongated diamond.

Here's a fun one! 623 E. 68th St. (Fictional address at the shore of East River)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoknj1ebqI

. o O (Diamond is the hardest)



Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain...

[idyl]

I'd love to get some discussion about this:

https://imgur.com/cmLmw4e

Picture taken of Image 12 by Kit Palencar, saying: "I destroyed the painting after taking that photo."

[Choice]

That's insane if true. It belongs to the publisher on loan to JP.
But it's not even the original painting since there's no Russian Cathedral.

[idyl]

But it's not even the original painting since there's no Russian Cathedral.

More accurately, it actually is the original painting and the Russian Cathedral was added in later, most likely digitally.