A Legend arrives in Seattle USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) large National Security Cutter entering Elliott Bay. This is the first Legend-class I've seen visit the city!

INCREDIBLE working recreation of a Chernobyl control panel by my friend Alex, who painstakingly researched, beautifully built, and artfully captured on video the entire construction from start to finish www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDlr... - amazingly done in darkness with bombs going off!!!

The MiG-21 Project is an art exhibition by South African-born artist Ralph Ziman. It consists of a former Polish Air Force MiG-21 fighter entirely covered (inside and out) with tens of millions of glass beads, currently on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.

She'll do .5 past lightspeed.

January sunsets in Seattle

Antonov An-124 near Seattle today - Kherson is the name of a Ukrainian city where russians currently hunt civilians with weaponized drones

USCGC Healy sailed up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers yesterday. A good thing, Portland has some ICE that needs breaking.

The Oregon City Municipal Elevator is the kind of lovingly screwball infrastructure that every city deserves.

"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station." The Space Needle is now ready for tomorrow's New Year's Eve show in Seattle. It looks 1000x better surrounded by fog and the smoke from fireworks, by the way.

One day I hope I can articulate the electric joy I feel every time I set foot on a ferry. Whenever I see a ferry booth with Halloween or Christmas decorations in the window, and small touches like this on the boats themselves are pure magic.

Christmas Ships on Lake Union, possibly my favorite thing about the holidays in Seattle!

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe always blow my mind with their lighting display. Fortunately this year I actually had time to walk through it and really appreciate the effort put into the lights along Sequim Bay.

Spoilers: its all of them! The first flight of the SR-71 Blackbird took off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on December 22, 1964, piloted by Bob Gilliland, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base after a brief test flight covering over 1,000 miles and reaching Mach 1.5

Wonder what happened to these LACV-30 hoverbarges that used to be at the Alaska Marine Lines terminal along West Marginal Way in Seattle. They popped up around 2014 and disappeared around 2020. The LACV-30 (Lighter Air Cushion Vehicle, 30t) hovercraft has a really wacky history:

Airport food prices are outrageous so I always pack a little Cheese when I fly somewhere...

Griffith Observatory, perched on the southern slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles, is one of the city’s most iconic landmarks and a gateway to public astronomy. Opened in 1935, it was built with the mission of making science accessible to everyone, offering free admission to its exhibits.

The Peter Iredale was a ship that ran aground during a storm on the Oregon coast in 1906 near Astoria. The ship was caught in heavy winds and driven onto the beach, where the crew safely abandoned it. Although salvage efforts recovered some materials, the hull was left in place.

My first time at Cape Disappointment: I brought the wrong lenses and the tides weren't terribly "kingly," but it was an amazing day trip.

Monster heavy lift crane arrives in Seattle. It has now been moved to its new anchorage near Jack Block Park. The crane has a 2,000-ton lift capacity and was used to build both the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York and the Oakland Bay Bridge.

On the rain-slick precipice of darkness, strobing flashes reveal the faded giant form of an abandoned nuclear power plant.

USS Nimitz (CVN-68), America's oldest aircraft carrier, passing Seattle for the second-to-last time ever.

This BFC recently moved from the east coast to the PNW. It is currently down in Olympia undoing modifications made so it could pass through the Panama Canal. Soon it will be relocated to Seattle. It was used to construct both the Tappan-Zee Bridge in New York as well as the Bay Bridge in Oakland.

I just adore the Coast Guard paint scheme. Looks good on everything. For a good time, look up "Coast guard V-22" or "Coast Guard A-10" :D

I'd already seen 4 Concordes and every SR-71 by the time I got to see my 1stMiG-25 Foxbat in Kyiv. Such a rare and special thing. The only MiG-25 in the U.S. (that we know of) is currently on display at the USAF museum in Ohio, an incomplete example that was found buried in Iraq.

The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall was built in 1915. On August 6, 1945, it stood almost directly below the atomic blast when the “Little Boy” bomb was dropped; most of the building was destroyed, but its steel dome and the concrete core of the building remained standing.

N700 of the Tokaido Shinkansen ( 東海道新幹線 ) southbound out of Hiroshima, Japan.

Icebreaker Polar Star departing Seattle for Pearl Harbor today

Some fall color and a hint of Olympic snow framing Bremerton's beloved Hammerhead crane which has stood at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for ninety years!

Tanks for nothin'

The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone has been closed to most visitors since russians invaded Ukraine in 2022, but you can get a small taste of radioactive wasteland by visiting this Сільпо (Silpo) grocery store in a suburb of Kyiv!

The tails of two Ukrainian Tu-22M swing-wing bombers, one Tu-134UBL trainer, and a former Soviet Tu-142M3 anti-submarine and maritime patrol plane.

In case you've ever wondered what the Ballard Locks look like below the water!

Peacekeeper ICBM launch silo T-09 near Chugwater, Wyoming

Built as a civilian DC-10, this plane was bought by the Royal Netherlands Air Force and converted to an aerial tanker. In 2019 the RNAF switched to Airbus A330s and sold two of these tankers to Omega Aerial Refueling Services Inc, which provides refueling services for military customers.

That part of Chernobyl's Golden Corridor where things start to get serious...

Hell Gate Bridge between Astoria, Queens and Randalls Island in New York City.

Easily the best floatplane paintjob in the Pacific Northwest. #seattle #pnw #pacificnorthwest #washington #airplanes #planespotting

Traffic between Ballard and Fremont is getting out of hand. #seattle #engineering #photography

T-10M (or IS-8) heavy tank at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv. The tank has changed locations since I first saw it in 2019. It has since been repositioned so that the gun is aimed toward the front, toward russian invaders.

Busy day at the tugboat factory! Western Towboat Company getting ready to launch their twentieth boat, designed and built here in Seattle.

Slothy chilling out over above I-5 just south of Bellingham. The original Bellingham sloth stuffed toy was stuck about 20 feet up a tree just off the freeway. The Washington State Department of Transportation removed it, citing a possible distraction for drivers or, worse..

USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10), America's only heavy icebreaker, sporting a fresh paint job and original-style stripe in recognition of 50 years of service! Polar Star just spent time in drydock at Mare Island in preparation for this year's Operation Deep Freeze mission to Antarctica

A herd of elk making their way across the former Rocky Flats site, where plutonium cores for nuclear weapons were mass-produced from 1952-1994

Overgrown remains of Missile Alert Facility B-01. This MAF was deactivated in 1998 and belonged to the 446th Missile Squadron out of Grand Forks Air Force Base. One MAF controlled ten remote Minuteman II nuclear missiles.

TURN YOUR KEY, SIR

The Interstate Bridge carries I-5 3,500 feet over the Columbia River, across the Oregon-Washington state border.

USX-1 Defiant being tested in Puget Sound. It is a fully autonomous prototype warship meant to spend up to a year at sea by itself under the DARPA NOMARS unmanned surface vessel program.

GOTCHA! JA894A usually does routes between Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and Sydney. But every few months it makes a trip to Seattle. I've missed the last few times to great frustration. Today I absolutely lucked out.

Nagasaki, Japan today with the approximate size and location of the Fat Man atomic bomb detonation for scale.

Fleet Week begins in Seattle - SeaFair 2025 #seattle #pnw #seafair #photography