Seattle in Golden Light - Aerial

Seattle skyline in golden light over indigo waters of Elliot Bay
Lake Washington in the background
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Cityrise

Seattle in the mist

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

Golden Spike

Sunset light illuminates the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco, CA. Lights receding into the distance line the pier from which this picture was taken.

Seattle Central Library

Bellevue Washington

A stroll through the streets of Bellevue on a crystal clear winter Sunday afternoon. In the past decade or so, and particularly over the last couple of years, many new buildings have been and are being built. The skyline resembles the future as imagined and illustrated 50 years ago: clean lines, reflective surfaces, bright blue sky. The low-angle winter sun at this latitude brightly illuminates some buildings which reflect in the mirrored windows of others. Sharp angles scatter the view. Secondary and sometimes tertiary reflections make for an interesting scene.

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.
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3-d effect will appear in the middle.
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Stereogram of the first view.
(1536px wide version here)

Wall of Water

Bellevue skyline looms over waterfall feature at Downtown Park, Bellevue, Washington.

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.
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Stairway to Heaven

Urban Growth

Bellevue, WA is undergoing major growth. The tower crane that collapsed Thursday night was but one of many currently dominating the skyline.

BELLEVUE, WA, November 16, 2006 7:45PM-PDT - Crane Collapse Kills One, Damages Buildings

Just as the crane operator was shutting down for the night, the unthinkable happened: it collapsed. Amazingly the operator survived his bumpy ride down. A resident of the apartment building across the street was not so lucky. He was killed when the walls and ceiling of his unit were crushed by the falling heavy steel crane. Microsoft identified the man who died as Matt Ammon, 31, a lawyer in the company's patent group.

Paul Leeper and Linda Rosario, residents in the unit below his were outside looking at the scene as I took these pictures. They described the experience as a loud rumble and explosion-like noise as the equipment impacted their structure. As they told of their ordeal, I was reminded of earthquakes. Only this of course was a lot more localized.

Local media coverage

Google Maps overhead view of the scene