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| Walking Downtown Seattle
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| Seattle's metal & glass central library.
| Ditto for another angle.
| Ditto, looking up. I wonder what it would be like to be on the top
floor and looking down.
| A tall, long skybridge.
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| The bridge spans multiple blocks, multiple buildings.
| This parking lot at Second & James near Pioneer Square is slanted!
| Pioneer Square, Seattle's main square, is smaller than I expected. It's
a small triangular park with a totem pole, an attractive row of triangle
lamps, and a nice glass arcade.
| Another perspective on Pioneer Square, taken from the opposite side.
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| Underground Tour
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| Underground, beneath Seattle's streets.
| We're in this building on its first level, which is now underground.
The actually entrance is on the second level.
| An originally-ground-level passageway that's now underground.
| And another. Once paved over, these corridors became a dumping ground
for various things such as elevator parts.
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| Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum
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| A vertical panorama of the Space Needle, Seattle Center's most
distinctive from-a-distance architectural feature.
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The Experience Music Project's building is the funkiest building in the
Center. I didn't manage to get a good picture of it, but here's one
I found online.
| In the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum, the glass forest room. an you imagine pouring molten glass from a stepladder. That takes a certain amount of craziness.
| Details.
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| The sea life room. View the full-sized image. Don't miss the
jellyfish, snails, stingrays, and more. Wow.
| An octopus on coral.
| The Persian ceiling room has incredible light.
| A close-up of a section of the ceiling.
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A panorama of the Persian ceiling room. It really shows the large
number of glass pieces required to make the ceiling..
I know the
panorama looks funny; that's because it's a spherical image. If you
load it into special software I promise it looks cool. :-)
| Another panorama of the Persian ceiling room, this one made using a
vertical sweep from one end to another. Notice that the people at one
end of the panorama are upside-down. It's hard to wrap your head
around.
| The Mille Fior room is dozen of feet long.
| Close-up of some of the "plants" in the room.
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| Those are some big glass marbles! (It's a normal-size boat.)
Excellent.
| The chandelier room is my favorite room. The red chandelier in the
foreground is my favorite of the chandeliers.
| I especially like the pleated bulbs in this chandelier. The red
balloons at the top of the chandelier in the background are pretty cool
too. Also, my the white chandelier curves.
| Another chandelier.
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| A sample of the Macchia Forest. Excellent work.
| What an interesting production technique.
| The glasshouse was closed for a special event (a wedding).
Nevertheless, I captured this panorama of the elaborate pieces hanging
in it.
| A better view of hanging glass sculptures.
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| This view of the glasshouse's scultpures is even clear because it's not
looking through frosted glass, though objects are more distant.
| Yet another view inside. Wow those are big yet delicate glass
sculptures.
| Lovely light showed off this flowery sculpture well.
| A sample shot of the garden with glass sculptures that surround the
museum.
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| A closer look at the massive tangled glass ball at one end of the
glasshouse.
| This tower of red petals remind me of the sexual motifs used in
someone's paintings. I think I'm thinking of Georgia O'Keeffe.
| A glass limestone column.
| A glass palm-top tree.
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