Although the roof can "close" on the Seattle Mariners’ Safeco Field, it’s more of an umbrella so even then there is a lot of open space. Either way, you are outside in Seattle, and that openness is a triumph.

With the two bold colors, this is also a Seattle sandwich on field and sky bread … "The bluest skies I’ve ever seen are in Seattle" :)

In the version on Flickr, our iconic Space Needle noted its own intriguing appearance: the past’s future, always on the horizon?

Seattle from Safeco has been featured by:

• ■ WorldFlicks, a site of one million Flickr photos and YouTube videos assigned to a Google Map by a global community of users. Users voted this the top photo of Safeco Field on its Wiki.WorldFlicks.org page.
• ■ MarcoGomes.com of São Paulo, Brasil in his popular wallpapr search engine, which uses the Flickr API to find cool “wallpapers,” AKA “backgrounds” or “desktops.”
• ■ Yahoo! Image Search, Google Image Search, and other fine sites

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• See its location on an interactive map of my photos, technical details about the shot, its place in my tag cloud and photo sets, which Flickr users consider it a favorite, and more on its dedicated pages in my Flickr stream.

Goal: not just another shot of Seattle’s Space Needle. Here, shot through the glass ceiling of its ground-level structure, in line to buy a ticket for the observation deck.

View it larger by clicking the small size to the left, to appreciate the glass ceiling’s effect.

For another, very different look at the Needle, on the same day I took this shot inside the Space Needle Observation Deck.

Elsewhere I called the Space Needle “the past’s future, always on the horizon.” I’m reminded of: “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them; but I can look up, and see their beauty … and try to follow where they lead.” That was Louisa May Alcott though this passage is often misquoted, from Work: A Story of Experience.

Looking Up has been featured by:

• ■ Space Needle LLC, cataloging the top Space Needle photos on Flickr.
• ■ MarcoGomes.com of São Paulo, Brasil in his popular wallpapr search engine, which uses the Flickr API to find cool “wallpapers,” AKA “backgrounds” or “desktops.”
• ■ Yahoo! Image Search, Google Image Search, and other fine sites

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Four Flickr users call Looking Up one of their favorite photos:

• photocoyote favorited this 11 Feb 08.

• TheQ! favorited this 04 Apr 07.

• harpfour favorited this 30 Mar 07.

• M P G favorited this 19 Oct 06.

Learn more about Looking Up:

• See its location on an interactive map of my photos, technical details about the shot, its place in my tag cloud and photo sets, and more on its dedicated pages in my Flickr stream.

Elliott Bay of Cascadia’s Puget Sound, with Olympic Mountains, from the Bainbridge Island-to-Seattle ferry’s aft.

Fluid on a longer timeline, the land firmly divides fleeting impressions in water and sky.

I am reminded of the television series Cosmos and the ending moments of the final episode, “Who Speaks For Earth?” when Carl Sagan said:

For we are the local embodiment of a cosmos grown to self-awareness; grouped assemblages of 10,000,000,000,000 atoms contemplating the atom, starstuff pondering the stars, tracing that long path by which here at least, matter grew to consciousness.

Fluid has been featured by:

• ■ MarcoGomes.com of São Paulo, Brasil in his popular wallpapr search engine, which uses the Flickr API to find cool “wallpapers,” AKA “backgrounds” or “desktops.”
• ■ KrazyDad, to demonstrate Flickr hacks hosted on his popular software site.
• ■ Yahoo! Image Search, Google Image Search, and other fine sites

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Four Flickr users call Fluid one of their favorite photos:

• jaruby favorited this 11 Aug 08.

• anhndee favorited this 11 Nov 07.

• AnjaliPhotography favorited this 12 Oct 07.

• M P G favorited this 19 Oct 06.

Learn more about Fluid:

• See its location on an interactive map of my photos, technical details about the shot, its place in my tag cloud and photo sets, and more on its dedicated pages in my Flickr stream.