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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Alaska Airlines, AS2314, SEA-YVR, SEA, YVR, Lake Washington, Medina, Bellevue, highway 520, Seattle, Washington, USA, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: Above the world’s longest floating bridge (Seattle)

16 March 2017.

After a few weeks in Germany, I’m returning to Vancouver via Seattle. The short aerial hop with Alaska Airlines has just departed Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and the plane has made the turn towards the Canadian-American border. Pressing first my nose and then my camera against the plexiglass, familiar sights greet me on the northbound flight.

Opened to traffic in 2016, the new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (or “520 bridge”) over Lake Washington is a floating pontoon bridge for Washington State highway 520 connecting Seattle Montlake in the west with Medina and Bellevue to the east. At a length of 2350 metres (7710 feet), the span is the longest floating bridge in the world. In the aerial view shown above, the scene faces east along the bridge to Medina and towards the illuminated office towers in downtown Bellevue (upper right). At bottom left and right are the Seattle neighbourhoods of Laurelhurst and Madison Park, respectively.

I made the photo on 16 March 2017 with a Canon 6D, 24-105 L zoom, and the following settings: 1/320-sec, f/16, ISO1000, and 55mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie on fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-9Ux.

My Seattle: Near and Wide, Few and Far

To mark the third anniversary of the artist collective Few and Far, a group of artists came together in June 2014 to collaborate on a mural in Seattle’s Lower Queen Anne (Uptown). The art shown below covers the south-facing wall of a former theater which now houses the Mud Bay pet supply store and faces a parking lot between the pet supply store and Dick’s Drive-In. Some will no doubt be munching on burgers and fries while they’re looking at furry creatures painted on the wall.

KSRA

KSRA, Few and Far, Few and Far Women, Uptown, Lower Queen Anne, Mud Bay Uptown, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

By KSRA

John Osgood

John Osgood, Few and Far, Few and Far Women, Uptown, Lower Queen Anne, Mud Bay Uptown, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

By John Osgood

Jenn Ponci

Jenn Ponci, Few and Far, Few and Far Women, Uptown, Lower Queen Anne, Mud Bay Uptown, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

“Paige” by Jenn Ponci

Wakuda Studio

Wakuda Studio, Jonathan Wakuda Ficher, Few and Far, Few and Far Women, Uptown, Lower Queen Anne, Mud Bay Uptown, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

北西, or “north west.” By Jonathan Wakuda Ficher.

I made all photos above on 14 April 2017 with the Canon 6D and 50-prime. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie on fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-9E0.

My Seattle: Solar power sun flower sound garden

A set of very tall “flowers” greets visitors to the Seattle Center. The sculpture by Dan Corson is called “Sonic Bloom” for the Pacific Science Center. Five flowers constructed with steel, acrylic, and fibreglass stand up to 13 metres (40 feet) above the ground. The stripes along the stalks are large mysterious barcodes left as puzzles for people to decode. Night-time illumination by the sculpture is powered completely from solar energy stored on panels “capping” the flowers and panels at the neighboring Science Center. The sculpture is a playful mix of both sight and sound as detection sensors subsequently emit choral tones in the presence of movement.

Sonic Bloom, Dan Corson, Pacific Science Center, Seattle Center, Space Needle, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

“Sonic Bloom” (Dan Corson) with the Pacific Science Center behind.

Sonic Bloom, Dan Corson, Pacific Science Center, Seattle Center, Space Needle, Seattle, WA, USA, fotoeins.com

Together with the Space Needle, all lit up!

I made the media above by day on 10 October 2016 and at night on 14 April 2017. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-9zW.

"Canoe/Waka", Preston Singletary, Tlingit, Lewis Tamihana Gardiner, Maori, Seattle Art Museum, SAM, Seattle, USA, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: 2 cultures, 1 ocean (Seattle SAM)

Something bright red and green catches my eye.

Imbedded in bright red, I see an elongated “eye” whose shape is familiar and prevalent within First Nations’ art from the Pacific Northwest (northeast Pacific). I’m also acquainted with that shade of green, not only from Chinese jade but also with the “pounamu” or “greenstone” from New Zealand.

In the Seattle Art Museum, the “Pacific Currents” display represents a variety of cultures across the big (western) ocean. I can’t say I’m surprised why I’m greatly attracted to this piece of art, a piece which represents my place of birth and a place of renewal.

The caption accompanying this beautiful green-red sculpture reads:

Canoe/Waka, 2007.

Blown and sand-carved glass, pounamu (New Zealand jade), red sealing wax.

Preston Singletary (Tlingit, born 1963) and Lewis Tamihana Gardiner (Māori, born 1972).

Collection of Preston Singletary.

“Revivals of traditional watercraft-building among Pacific Northwest indigenous people and Māori of New Zealand have become a catalyst for composing songs and dances, creating masks and regalia, and reviving oral traditions. In Canoe/Waka, the artists pay homage to the canoe as a vessel of knowledge. Gardiner carves pounamu – associated with chiefs and expressions of peace – as the canoe prow while Singeltary sand-carves the glass that forms the canoe’s structure.”

"Canoe/Waka", Preston Singletary, Tlingit, Lewis Tamihana Gardiner, Maori, Seattle Art Museum, SAM, Seattle, USA, fotoeins.com

“Canoe/Waka”, by Preston Singletary and Lewis Tamihana Gardiner

I made the photos on 9 February 2017. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-9KT.

Restless, Hebru Brantley, street art, downtown Seattle, Seattle, USA, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: “I C U” (Seattle)

It’s about a matter of preparation, vision, and patience. If you’re lucky, maybe all three will converge into something that amounts to something like a special pluck out of the continuous time-stream of things that happen all around us at every single moment of the day.

Created and painted by Hebrú Brantley, this wonderfully dynamic and engaging art piece is called “Restless,” located in downtown Seattle on James Street between 3rd and 4th Avenue.

I made the photo above on 6 January 2017 with the Canon EOS6D, 50mm-prime, and the following settings: 1/400s, f/10, and ISO500. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-9uQ.

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