Scenes from Seattle and around the House
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Seattle's Space Needle, seen from West Seattle. The barge and clouds drifted a bit between shots. |
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The classic view of Seattle's Space needle, seen from the overlook on Queen Anne Hill. The roof had been painted the original color, for its 40th anniversary.
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Seattle downtown, from West Seattle.
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A late-evening twilight view of Seattle from the West Seattle lookout on Admiral Way, and just a bit more easterly than the aerial photo, left. I cropped the cloud, because it formed in just the minute between exposres. !
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West Seattle, taken from a commercial jetliner looking south-east.
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West Seattle, taken from a commercial jetliner looking south-west.
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This rainbow demonstrates how colors don't translate well into anaglyph form - compare the color and b&w versions. The scenic version was taken from a block away of the other end of this bow.
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Aftermath in Seattle from the Nisqually quake of February, 2001.
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Facing NW, this is the backside of Safeco Field (with the roof closed), where the Mariners play baseball. The construction is a highway on-ramp, and I suppose the view will become more obstructed, so this is sort of historical, I guess.
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The last Boeing Stratoliner was masterfully put down into Elliot Bay after its engines failed. This shot was taken later that night of 3/28/2002. Built in 1940, it had just been refurbished to flying condition after 10,000 hours of Boeing volunteer worker time. It has since been re-restored and flown to Washington DC to be put into the Smithsonian collection. You can read about that at their site.
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The aquarium in our local sushi bar, Mashiko. You can see right through the tank to the tables with candles on them, beyond.
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Pike Place Market has fresh seafood, and once you see the prices, you might be sleepless here, too.
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Recreational Equipment, Inc (REI) has their flagship store here. Through the atrium windows, you can see their 3-story climbing rock. In the distance are the Space Needle, the arches of the Pacific Science Center, and the Olympic mountians on the horizon. This was taken from Melrose Ave.
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The Aurora Avenue Bridge, seen from Lakeview Boulevard. Lake Union is in the foreground, and the ship canal goes under the bridge. Fremont is to the right, Queen Anne Hill to the left.
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Under the north end of the Aurora Ave Bridge lives a troll, who has taken possession of a real VW bug.
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| Scenes from around the House |
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View on a foggy night from our porch.
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View on a more foggy night from our walkway. I was going for the shadow cast by the cables coming to our house from the pole.
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The hedge along our walkway. The fraidy cat froze between the two shots. I guess it figured I wouldn't see it, if it didn't move. It worked for the shot!
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Our neighbors' roofs, looking south.
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Our bountiful harvest of tomatos, year 2000. |
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Our neighbor's ultra-groomed pine. The anaglyph is the superior image, but it's big (524kb).
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This is the view up our street to the north. Hey - it's cloudy!
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Shown here is how I set up the camera to take the next two shots, of the newly-formed hornets' nest on the lilac branch.
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Lorri spotted this very new bald-faced hornet nest in our lilac. During the queen's foray to wherever, I just cut the whole branch for photography and display.
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This is looking right into the opening. Note the egg in the chamber. All had a single egg, but because of the chamber walls, you can see only one at a time.
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This dewey web was spun in the ligustrum hedge along our front walk.
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This spider (Araneus diadematus?) lived on our deck railing. One sunny day, I set up a table next to the web, and slid the camera about two inches sideways at a distance of maybe 4 inches from the spider.
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