Ooooh! Ahhh!

Fall color show is in full swing.

Seattle Skyline - HiRes

Click for gigapan
Ultra-high-resolution image of the Seattle skyline shot through a telescope across 2 miles of Elliott Bay.

Mount Wilson Hooker 100 Inch Telescope

A weekend visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory


Approaching the observatory, its brightly illuminated dome peeks out from between the trees.


Inside this structure hides the 100 inch Hooker telescope.


Inside the observatory dome structure, the 100 inch Hooker Telescope stands silently in its parked position.

The Century

Sunshine low on the horizon illuminates the new "The Century", a 42-story residential building flanked by two tower cranes as it rises over Century City.

Starliner 75

Alaska Airlines "Starliner 75", a Boeing 737-800 specially painted in a DC-3 era style in recognition of the airline's 75th anniversary, parked at Burbank Airport Terminal Gate B5.


Climbing into the sunset over the San Fernando Valley, shortly after take-off.

San Fernando Valley Wildfires

The fire flares up as fire crews work the line.


A helicopter makes a water drop.


After the fire. At another location that burned the night before, the fire burned all the way up to the roadway. In the hills above, it still burns. After we left we could see that it flared up again.
Click image to enlarge.

Incident Information

NASA MODIS Satellite Imagery

San Fernando Valley Panorama

View from Topanga Canyon View Park over San Fernando Valley.
Click image for full gigapan.

20th Century Stonehenge

The sun sets between two modern office towers in Century City, CA.

I shot this image on 35mm film (probably Tri-X Pan 400) nearly 30 years ago - I don't recall the exact year. It was taken either with a 35mm half-frame Olympus Pen-F camera or a full-frame Olympus OM-1 - I don't recall which.

Just today, I came across a print of this shot among some other things I was searching through, so I scanned and processed it for posting here.

Gigapan: Seattle from Kerry Park

Seattle Skyline from Kerry Park

Other gigapans

Down on the Farm

Farm tractor sits parked at the edge of a recently harvested field. In the background, the fog slowly lifts revealing the tree-covered hillside.

Seeing Trails

Lights of moving vehicles form streaks in this 30 second night-time exposure of traffic on the I-90 floating bridge over Lake Washington between Seattle and Mercer Island. Dashed light streaks were made by turn signals flashing on and off as the vehicle moved down the road.


Aerial view of the camera position for the night shot.

Late Summer Morning at SeaTac

SeaTac tower presides over the smoky late summer sunrise over the Cascade Mountain range.

Soft Curves

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.

Mt. Saint Helens Revisited

August 9th


Another visit on August 16th


360 degree panorama (click image for gigapan view)