Commonwealth Stadium Ligthing

Here's the second shot of the stadium lighitng; this time using the 17mm TSE lens.  This is two photos merged together in Adobe Lightroom CS4.

Commonwealth Stadium Ligthing

Recently the engineering company that designed the ligthing upgrades at Commonwealth Stadium asked me to take some photos of the completed project.  I will share some over the next few days.  This is taken with the Canon 5DII with a 15mm Fisheye Lens.

Seattle - Musuem of Flight

When Concorde was making the last of her commercial flights in late 2003 one British Airways Concorde captain was quoted as saying that for the first time in aviation history we were about to start going backwards.  Concorde was loud, expensive and accessible to only a narrow margin of  the traveling public, but it was arguably one of the most - if not the most - beautiful and technically sophisticated machines man has ever made.  Seeing this British Airways Concorde permanently parked at the Museum of Flight is quite sad in many ways.  Even though she looks like she's traveling at Mach 1 it's just not right to see her just sitting there against the grey Seattle sky.

Seattle Museum of Flight

The museum of flight covers the full range of air transport from the earliest days of heavier than air flight through wartime and the development of commercial airliners and on to space exploration.  Here in the atrium a wide variety of aircraft including the SR-71 Blackbird at the bottom and the Douglas DC-3 at the rop.  In the back there's and F4 Phantom, a F-104 Starfighter and a US Air Boeing 737.

Seattle Museum of Flight

Lurking beneath the gleaming engine cowling of commercial airliners lies the screaming gas turbine jet engine.  This is an industrial abstract photo of the mighty Pratt and Whitney JT9B high by-pass turbofan developed for use on the early Boeing 747 airliner.  This particular engine is attached to the first 747 to take to the air, N7470 'City of Everett' on display at the museum of flight.

Seattle Grunge

Well it's not really grunge I guess...this is a photo taken of some of the 'plumbing' on a 747 engine on display at the museum of flight.  The metal is discoloured from the heat; the colours have been tweaked a bit as you see it here.

Seattle Coffee

I took this photo with my selective focus lens - this is the tabletop at one of Seattle's many outdoor cafes.