Night Time, Quiz Time
It’s been a while since I have successfully tackled a Quiz Time challenge on my own. This challenge took me much longer than I had anticipated and I felt like quitting a few times, but through perseverance and ever-improving analysing skills, I succeeded!
The challenge called for us to name the place where the image was taken. I immediately examined the image for clues about its geographical region and unique architecture that could be useful in a targeted Reverse Image Search to identify where the image was taken. There was nothing here that gave me a clear indication of the region. All I could surmise was that the image was shot in a modern metropolitan city. Multiple Reverse Image Search engines to identify the city fed me results from disparate locations. Plugging this photo into GeoSpy two different times, indicated that the location in question is Bangkok, Thailand. In one of those searches, it was indicated that the image is near Lumphini Park, so that gave me a starting point of reference. Next, I highlighted two unique-looking buildings that could be recognized from a street and an aerial satellite view.
I found the quasi-checkered stripes running vertically down the building on the right to be unique enough to notice straightaway on a Street View search. I decided to locate that one first, then work my way toward the luxury condo-looking building on the left with the small dark roof and outdoor pool, then ultimately towards the point of origin.
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I started my street view searching the area around Lumphini Park, scrolling the streets for a few minutes until I found The Met Condominium. I viewed several dozen user-submitted photos of the building on G-Maps for extra verification and to help identify the building on the right in the source image. While perusing the images, I came across one that seemingly handed me the solution on a silver platter. However, I had to do my due diligence.
The building within the white rectangle strongly resembles the other one I was looking for from the source image, complete with the small brown roof on top and an open-air pool area on one of the lower floors. Switching over to satellite view, I was able to identify this building to be Supalai Elite Sathon — Suan Phlu. Pictures of the building on various real estate websites provided confirmation.
I highlighted the green-roofed building too because the position of the building seemed to be a possible match to the origin point of the source image. Referring back to the source image, I observed that the street-level area in front has some trees, a little white gate and the positioning of the car out front indicated that it was a residential parking area.
Back in satellite view, I found a green-roofed building near the Supalai Elite building, which was determined to be Somerset Park Suanplu. From there, I plugged “Somerset Park Suanplu” into G.Maps to look at user-submitted photos for verification, noting both the street view right down below (trees, parking lot, and little white gate) and the view facing out towards the East. Everything checked out :-)
