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CTroyMathis
11 May 2004, 01:53 AM
Broken down into segments...V

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(Chihuly Bridge of Glass)
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/chihuly-tacoma-4photopan-edit.jpg

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(Scenic view and Arthur Erickson's local landmark)
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/museumofglass-waterview-4photopan-edit.jpg

Overview
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300014-tacglass1.jpg
Overhead crazyness on the Bridge of Glass
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300020-tacglass1.jpg
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300021-tacglass1.jpg

Glass pop rocks and the slanted volcano
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300024-tacglass1.jpg

Glass pop rocks and Union Station
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300027-tacglass1.jpg

Glass apples, how Washingtonian! ;)
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300048-tacglass1.jpg




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Conv. Ctr (future spire here...) under construction in Tacoma
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300009-tac14.jpg

Birds. They always do spontaneous photo fly-bys...
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300012-tac14.jpg

First lesson in urban punk training.
I distract traveller, you take the bag. ;)
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300013-tac14.jpg

Need a night photo of this.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300017-tac14.jpg

"Man's character is the product of his premises."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300018-tac14.jpg

"No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300019-tac14.jpg

"Thinking men cannot be ruled."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300054-tac14.jpg

"There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save
other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300056-tac14.jpg

"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300057-tac14.jpg

"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lot of an empty mind."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300059-tac14.jpg

"To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is true."
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300062-tac14.jpg

Shut her up! Blue and Green in the 'Theater District.'
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300063-tac14.jpg

Diggin' it.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300066-tac14.jpg

His first urban photo.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300067-tac14.jpg

Sign inside said no drinks on the electric wave-machine kiddo!
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300068-tac14.jpg

His second urban photo.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300070-tac14.jpg

His third urban photo. Tacoma Dome pit-stop meets Sounder hook-up.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300072-tac14.jpg

His fourth. Like the sign says. But, you park there.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300073-tac14.jpg

57 Downtown.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300074-tac14.jpg

More looks from the Tacoma Dome stop.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300075-tac14.jpg
Across the street, the entrance to the Sounder. Quiet, as the train
has a special schedule due to Seahawk blue and green up in Seattle.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300078-tac14-1024.jpg

Austin charting our next course of action. (Too bad it's Dad's Alaska
'water maps'... well, he didn't actually have to 'know' that part.)
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300079-tac14-austinchart.jpg

Independence.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300081-tac14-1024.jpg

Random last shot before departing the stop at Tacoma Dome.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300082-tac14.jpg

His fifth urban shot. And, where we depart from.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300086-tac14.jpg

All types of urban 'Cruisers.'
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300087-tac14.jpg

UW-T old and new merging.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300088-tac14.jpg

No chihuahuas.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300089-tac14.jpg

Back to the conv. ctr. u/c. Skoda gliding again. Steady headway here.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300090-tac14.jpg

Rainier and center city obstructions.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300093-tac14.jpg

Escalator is not ready. Do not enter.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300094-tac14.jpg

Random. Completely.
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/PB300095-tac14.jpg

His last photo. Mini-me pano (with help from remote.) He had a
fine day. So did I!
http://seattle.dallasmetropolis.com/museumofglass-take2-tacomaview-4photopan-editsupersmall.jpg

sterling
11 May 2004, 02:27 AM
Wow, I couldn't see any of the Glass Museum things before! What a SUPER treat to see the Dale Chihuly glass, and the slanted cone glass-blowing theater and surrounds. And didn't the bridge involve Texas architects (maybe Lake Flato?)? These pictures are is so evocative. How is it actually being on that bridge? I mean, do you feel you're being tricked into crossing the railroad tracks? For my own selfish reasons, do you think such a treatment would lend itself to the Dallas Convention Center's railroad track/street dilemma?

CTroyMathis
03 December 2004, 07:23 PM
I think a treatment like that could really do some good, you're definitely on to something there Sterling.