January 26, 2020 - Blue Tease

A Seattle Filter wouldn't apply this morning as the clouds left a little opening for a tease of blue sky.  By early afternoon, the sun had come out.  With a mid afternoon soccer match scheduled, Murphy's Law dictates a change to rain!

 

The Hong Kong flagged container ship Seaspan Hudson arrives from Elliott Bay assisted by a pair of tugs.  The 112,000 ton, 1105 foot vessel (3 times the length of the ferries that ply Puget Sound!) is listed as having a carrying capacity of 10,000 TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent), or 10,000 20' foot containers!  Each intermodal container has about 1000 cubic feet in volume.

January 25, 2020 - Seattle Filter

A break in an otherwise wet first month of the year yields the city's own filter when the skyline is viewed from Alki looking across Elliott Bay.  It's not quite black and white.  It's not on Instagram.  It isn't "Inkwell", or "Moon", or "Walden."  "January Seattle Morning", is too long and certainly doesn't fit with the online photo application's naming conventions.  Suggestions, anyone?  "Elliott", perhaps?

The ferry M/V Tacoma heads across Puget Sound to Bainbridge Island.

An image in black and white isn't much different from our Seattle filter!