Into the Sunset

Above Seattle at Night

Nighttime approach into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Seattle Waterfront

CenturyLink Stadium & Safeco Field
Port of Seattle
In the top left corner can be seen headlights on the I-90 floating bridge

Iconic Space Needle

CenturyLink Field

Port of Seattle

Seattle Skyline in Sunset Light & Sea-based X-band Radar

Updated July 25, 2011

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In case you're wondering what that huge golf ball is on the right side of this image, that is the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Boeing-built Sea-Based X-band Radar. This bizarre object is actually a ship. The dome houses a remarkably powerful and precise radar system that can track something the size of a baseball thousands of miles away. At a cost in the neighborhood of one billion dollars, this mobile radar facility is designed to track missiles, not baseballs. It is in port in Seattle for several months undergoing a variety of power and redundancy upgrades.

More information [SeattlePI].

After reading about this monster, I realized I had seen it before.

Aerial view on approach into Seattle/Tacoma International airport

Aerial on departure from Honolulu International Airport

A closer view

From shuttle boat en route to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor

A closer view from the shuttle boat

Back in Hawaii November 26, 2012, viewed from Blaisdell Park

Seattle

The following images were shot across 2 miles of Elliott Bay.


Top of the Space Needle. Click to enlarge and you can clearly make out individual guests on the observation deck.


Calder's "Eagle" at the Olympic Sculpture Garden.


Partial panorama shot from the same vantage point.
Click the image to see the full ~450 megapixel panorama on gigapan.


Aerial view of the park from which these images were captured.

Above Seattle

Seattle skyline, Elliott Bay in the foreground, Lake Washington, and Bellevue in the distance viewed from over Elliott Bay (see stereogram below).


Downtown Seattle. Two Washington State Ferries can be seen docked in the upper-right corner.


Stereogram of the Space Needle and the Pacific Science Center, and part of the Seattle Waterfront.
Click to enlarge; cross eyes to converge the two images to appear as three.
3-d effect will appear in the middle.
(1536px wide version here)


Stereogram of the first view.
(1536px wide version here)

Seattle Silver Sunset

End of the day over Elliot Bay; an incoming ferry approaches the dock; a lone seagull glides about; sunbeams brush the scene.


Between piers, the sunset reflects off the gentle ripples.

A Bright, Sunny Winter Afternoon in Seattle

A ferry from Bremerton crosses Elliott Bay.


A couple strolls along a scenic walkway, enjoying the weather.


A sculpture at Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill.

Seattle at Night

View of the Seattle Skyline across Elliott Bay from Alki Beach in West Seattle.
This is about a full minute exposure. Streaks in the sky were made by commercial aircraft on approach into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Click the image to enlarge.