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

Hot Rat Summer, baby! #seattle #pnw #photography #hotratsummer

I love a good fucked-up-looking skyscraper.

Remote Sprint Launch site. Owner is a total nutterbutter. Take the tour to hear him bitch about not being getting paid $1,000 to show his missile mockup at an airshow, how the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, or how he doesn't want "the gays" involved in his World Peace art/dance performance.

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test - here is some Trinitite (desert soil soiled fused into radioactive green glass) that I gathered for a photo at the site during my visit

Minuteman Transporter Erector truck - 80 were built by Boeing, GMC, and Cessna to haul ICBMs along public roads to and from their launch silos. The trucks had air conditioning, but only for the missile, and were powered by a V12 engine.

USCGC Storis - America's newest (acquired) medium icebreaker chilling in Seattle before heading to its new home in Juneau

Temple of Doomsday Among the ICBM fields of North Dakota looms what remains of the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system. Once in command of over 150 megatons of Spartan and Sprint interceptors, it operated for less than a year and cost a whopping $5.8 Billion ($34B in 2025).

It's time to play @nuclearanthro.bsky.social's favorite game: Find the Highest-Yield Nuke Displayed Next to a Playground. While I bet the winner by a mile will be the NMNS, I humbly submit a 5-megaton Spartan sandwiched nicely between an elementary school and a daycare in Langdon, North Dakota.

USCGC Eagle dropping anchor in Seattle today

I love bridges. They represent the sheer effort we are willing to put forth to connect, over innumerable obstacles and challenges. Astoria-Megler Bridge connecting Astoria, Oregon to Washington state across the mouth of the Columbia River.

N700 of the Tokaido Shinkansen ( 東海道新幹線 ) departing Fuji city.

Seen here are the remnants of russian Kalibir and Tochka missiles downed by air defenses in Kyiv. They each carry warheads of 500kg and 2000kg are are accurate to 300 feet, yet they continuously fall upon residential buildings, schools, and hospitals.

Bullet holes and mortar scars on the Central House of Culture in Irpin, Ukraine. A month-long battle with russian invaders/occupiers deeply scarred this town just six miles from the capital of Kyiv. 300 civilians killed by russia, including an American journalist from Tennessee.

Summer sunsets in Seattle

Name a better looking airplane. I'll wait. #SR71 #Blackbird

I'd have never guessed my first Banksy sighting would be in the bombed-out rubble of Borodyanka, Ukraine as we stopped to buy boots and gear for defenders we were visiting. 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Originally built for the US Navy for carrier-based anti-submarine warfare, this Grumman S-2 Tracker found new purpose as a fire-fighting airtanker with CAL FIRE, capable of dropping 1,200 gallons on wildfires.

Even though this nuclear power plant was never completed, the shape of the abandoned cooling towers spontaneously creates and overflows with fog when temperature and humidity conditions are just right. #seattle #photography #pnw #abandoned #abandonedporn #drones #nuclear

USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) entered service as a ballistic missile submarine in 1964. After 25 years serving in America's nuclear deterrent force the sub had its missile tubes cut out, shortening the vessel, and was converted to a Moored Training Ship.

Bainbridge Island Sunrise

On October 1, 1986 Chernobyl liquidators installed a plain red flag in honor of the post-accident startup of reactor Unit 1 and to honor significant completion of liquidation efforts and Shelter Object construction.

MiG Alley Actually Il-28, Su-7s, Su-20s and MiG-21s.