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  • Downtown Seattle looms behind the south portal of the Highway 99 tunnel, which isn’t generating enough toll income to pay for maintenance and $200 million in construction debt. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Downtown looms
  • Lights in a building in downtown Seattle stand out on the Seattle skyline, showing support for the 12th Man: fans of the Seattle Seahawks.<br />
Ellen Banner/The Seattle Times
    12th Man Building
  • The Space Needle at sunset as seen from Kerry Park. (Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times)
    Kerry Park Sunset
  • A supermoon adorns the night sky over the Seattle skyline in July. (/ The Seattle Times)
    Summer super moon
  • A supermoon adorns the night sky over Seattle in July. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
    Supermoon of 2022
  • The Seattle Great Wheel on the downtown waterfront, frames a bleached-white Mt. Rainier. (Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times)
    Summer solstice
  • The Space Needle stands in front of the Olympic Mountains. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
    Clearly gorgeous
  • Belltown (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
    Belltown
  • A golden sunset graces the Seattle skyline in January. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
    Winter sunset
  • (Travis Ness / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle from above
  • Northeast Seattle’s Bryant neighborhood is seen in August 2020. Home prices in the Seattle metro area and around the country continue to increase steadily. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle Bryant neighborhood
  • A clear night provides a good view of the lights of the Seattle skyline from the Don Armeni Boat Ramp in West Seattle along Harbor Avenue Southwest. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Clear nights and city lights
  • (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Ferry and Seattle skyline
  • The ferry Hyak and the Space Needle seen from Harbor Island. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    View from Harbor Island
  • Two sailboats race for the finish line. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
    Downtown Sailing Series
  • Dramatic clouds pass by the Seattle skyline at Smith Tower. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Smith Tower and Seattle skyline
  • A bird flies past a foggy Seattle skyline at Gasworks Park. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    As the crow flies
  • Top: The permanently closed viaduct, with Smith Tower in the background, is seen from the Seattle Great Wheel on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, about 18 hours before the city was tested with its first morning rush hour without the highway. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)<br />
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Bottom: Progress on taking down the viaduct is seen from atop the Seattle Great Wheel, looking south of University Street, with the Smith Tower in the background at center, on Sunday, May 19, 2019. <br />
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(Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Waterfront transformed
  • A tugboat pushes a barge on Elliott Bay as the Space Needle and Mt. Baker loom in the background. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle Mt. Baker skyline
  • The progress on taking down the Viaduct is seen from atop the Seattle Great Wheel, looking south of University Street, with the Smith Tower in the background at center, Sunday May 19, 2019. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Now you don't | May 19
  • A view of the permanently closed Viaduct, with Smith Tower in the background, is seen from the Seattle Great Wheel, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, about 18 hours before the city will be tested with its first morning rush hour without the highway. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Now you see it | January 13
  • With the Space Needle in the background, a double-crested cormorant prepares to take flight after drying its wings in West Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Dry to fly
  • This bird’s-eye view of visitors on the Space Needle’s observation deck was taken from a helicopter passing by the Seattle landmark. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Space Needle bird's-eye view
  • During a break in the rain, Canada geese get a snack in West Seattle as the Seattle skyline peaks above them in the background. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Geese break
  • Overhead view of Portage Bay in foreground and Lake Union in background, and a snow-covered Capitol Hill at left. Downtown Seattle is further in the background. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Portage Bay
  • Homes in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood with downtown in the distance. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Queen Anne and downtown
  • The Seattle downtown skyline catches a sun break. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Across the bay
  • The view from the Viaduct at sunset, July 21, 2018. (Rebekah Welch/The Seattle Times)
    Alaskan Way Viaduct
  • The Space Needle and downtown Seattle  begin to emerge from a fog blanket in this view from Kerry Park on the south side of Queen Anne Hill. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times, 2009)
    Needle in the fog
  • Smith Tower, located in Pioneer Square, is the oldest skyscraper in Seattle, Washington. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Smith Tower at dusk
  • The Seattle skyline, looking southeast, with Queen Anne Hill in the foreground. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
    Bright lights, big city
  • A lenticular or 'cap' cloud frames the Space Needle seen from  Queen Anne Hill. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times, 2004)
    Flying saucer flyby
  • A shimmery reflection of Seattle's original skyscraper, the 38-story Smith Tower, completed in 1914 on Second Avenue in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, is seen in the glass panels of downtown's new, 48-story F5 Tower on Fifth Avenue. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
    Old meets new
  • Sunrise over Seattle skyline taken from Kerry Park. (Jimi Lott / The Seattle Times, 2000)
    Kerry Park view
  • The sun peeks out at sunrise at Kerry Park in Seattle. Mount Rainier is illuminated in the background. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Sunrise over Kerry Park
  • The Space Needle on a clear day in March. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle clear day
  • Seattle's Rainier Tower at night. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2017)
    Rainier Tower
  • Iconic Seattle Central Library (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Book your visit
  • Pedestrians walk through wet streets illuminated at dusk near Pioneer Square. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Pioneer Square at dusk
  • A rainbow appears over downtown Seattle as sun breaks through the gray enveloping the city. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times, 2004)
    Somewhere under the rainbow
  • A ferry passes in front of the Seattle skyline as it heads toward the Colman Dock. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times)
    Early winter blues
  • Nearing the end of their historic 170-mile journey, Quileute and Hoh Indians paddle their canoes across Elliott Bay toward Alki, with a final destination of Golden Gardens. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times, 1989)
    Paddle to Seattle
  • The Space Needle is seen through the sculpture "Changing Form" by Doris Chase during twilight in Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle peek
  • In this 1999 photo, a bulbous moon rises over the Seattle skyline, a prelude to the full moon, which was 24 percent brighter than normal because it coincided with the winter solstice and the lunar perigee. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Northwest moon
  • Seattle saw plenty of clouds, some even looking a little rainy, but things stayed dry and sunny. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Cloudy with a chance of sun
  • The autumn sun illuminates the Seattle skyline and dramatic clouds above the city. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Sunset clouds
  • Stratocumulus is the area's signature cloud. Thick and gray as wool socks. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2002)
    Wrapped cozy in a shroud of cloud
  • Smith Tower, the tallest building on the West Coast when it was completed in 1914, now looks up to the bigger kids on nearby blocks. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)
    Seattle architecture
  • The King Street Station is reflected in the Vulcan building in Seattle.  (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Vulcan image meld
  • A total lunar eclipse rises behind the Space Needle. (Rod Mar / The Seattle Times, 2004)
    Dark side of the moon
  • Aerial view of Ballard, the Ballard Locks and Magnolia looking west towards Puget Sound and the Olympics. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
    Bird's eye view of Ballard
  • The umbrellas are back out in Seattle, as a man passes "Changing Form," the Kerry Park sculpture by Doris Chase. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Shape shifter
  • The autumn sun illuminates the Seattle skyline and dramatic clouds above the city. <br />
(Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Evening on Elliott Bay
  • In this aerial from the top of the Space Needle, lower Queen Anne is in the foreground, the former Fisher Flour grain terminal with a ship docked, center, and Magnolia beyond, including the Magnolia Bridge. The Elliott Bay Marina is top,center. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Aerial Queen Anne
  • Smith Tower is surrounded by trees as the sun goes down over Seattle.  Shot from Harborview Medical Center. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Smith Tower sundown
  • The Space Needle is captured upside down in tiny raindrops on a window in downtown Seattle. The droplets act like wide-angle photographic lenses, inverting the images and distorting them as they run down the window. (Jimi Lott / The Seattle Times, 2005)
    Space Needle raindrops
  • The sun peeks through the Space Needle as it sets at Lake Union Park. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)
    Sun and Needle
  • Tuesday, November 29, 2016.   Window washers (there are two, one is hidden) start the task of cleaning 9,994 exterior windows on the downtown Seattle Library designed by Rem Koolhaas, enough windows to cover 5 1/2 football fields.   <br />
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Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times
    Washing windows on high
  • Cormorants dry their wings on pilings along the West Seattle waterfront as the top of the space needle peers through the fog at center. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Bird's eye view of Space Needle
  • Rower on Lake Union early in the morning.  Rowers from various rowing clubs take advantage of early morning calm water to exercise and enjoy the scenery. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
    Early morning row
  • Cranes dot buildings along the Seattle skyline alongside the space needle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Cranes in the sky
  • The Seattle skyline rises above Elliott Bay in Puget Sound as a Washington State Ferry comes into Colman Dock. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times, 1994)
    1994 Seattle
  • Safeco Field glows like a jewel on opening night. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times, 1999)
    Safeco Field
  • A ferry passes by Seattle's Great Wheel on the downtown waterfront. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle skyline and the Great Wheel
  • The Seattle skyline glows from the overpass over I-5 at Belmont Ave. E and Lakeview Blvd E. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Night skyline
  • Washington's tall ship The Lady Washington sails through Lake Union in front of Seattle's skyline.  (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 2010)
    The Lady Washington
  • A sunbather relishes the warm sunshine at Alki in front of a backdrop of Seattle's skyline.<br />
(Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Summer's afoot
  • A bird flies around the Seattle Great Wheel at sunset, seen from the riverside on Alaskan Way. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times)
    Sunset at the Wheel
  • Light pollution, in all its glory here, lights the clouds over Seattle, which reflect back on the glassy waters of Elliott Bay. The still water serves as a mirror to add even more light to a cycle proving difficult to reverse. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Lighting up the clouds
  • To offer a view of what the night sky over Seattle would look like without light pollution, photographer Benjamin Benschneider created a photo illustration in two steps. First, he photographed the Seattle skyline from Queen Anne Hill. Next, he obtained a wide-field photo of the south Milky Way from and by Maxine Nagel, treasurer of the Seattle Astronomical Society. He then blended the images to create this one. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle skyline photo illustration
  • Traffic coming into Seattle on Interstate-5 photographed from Beacon Hill. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Traffic from Beacon
  • Photo of the Lake Union houseboat community at night, circa 1970s.<br />
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Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times
    Lake Union at night
  • The CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin,<br />
the largest cargo ship to visit the United States, along the Seattle waterfront. The Benjamin Franklin is more than 1,300 feet long, 177 feet wide and has a draft of 52 feet. <br />
<br />
Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times
    Benjamin Franklin in Seattle
  • Looking a little like the tendons of heart valves, Pacific Science Center's arches bask in red light, with the Space Needle in the background. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Center of the center
  • A nearly full moon is captured from Seattle’s Capitol Hill as it sinks into the morning light over the Olympic Mountains. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Full moon over the Olympic Mountains
  • On the wing, a Canada goose does a fly-by along Harbor Avenue Southwest across from the Seattle skyline. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Canada goose on the wing
  • The sun makes a partial appearance amid hazy skies above Seattle and Elliott Bay, with Mount Rainier looming in the background. This view is from Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Hazy skies over Seattle
  • Mount Rainier is framed by the steel arches of the Seahawks stadium with the black roof members of Safeco Field, right. (Seattle Times staff photographer)
    CenturyLink Field arches and Mount R..nier
  • Lightning fills the skies near the Smith Tower in the early morning hours as seen from the Harborview Park Viewpoint. Lightning strikes were recorded across the greater Seattle area late treating those still awake to a spectacular light show. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)
    Lightning bolts arc over city lights
  • The rain took a break, although dark storm clouds linger over downtown Seattle, seen from W. Seattle's Don Armeni Park. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Stormy Seattle skyline
  • The downtown Seattle skyline is highlighted by lightning in this time-exposure photograph taken from Duwamish Head. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1984)
    Nature puts on electric display
  • A No. 24 flag atop the Space Needle honors Seattle Mariners great Ken Griffey Jr., who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    A No. 24 flag atop the Space Needle
  • Several hundred Star Wars fans gather underneath the Space Needle Saturday night to wage a lightsaber battle. The light saber battle coincided with the opening of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."<br />
<br />
Sy Bean / The Seattle Times
    Sabers under the needle
  • Fireworks explode from the Space Needle as the clock strikes midnight on New Years Eve in Seattle, Thursday, December 31, 2015.<br />
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Sy Bean / The Seattle Times
    Happy New Year Seattle, 2015
  • A pedestrian along First Avenue in downtown Seattle passes the Seattle Great Wheel, which offers a little color on a rainy day, <br />
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
    Rainy Day near the Wheel
  • The snowy Olympic Mountains beyond the Seattle skyline on a sunny March day. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    The snowy Olympic Mountains beyond t..line
  • About 10 miles separated the camera and Seattle’s taller structures in this telephoto-lens view from the Eastside’s Somerset community. The Olympic peaks are 50 miles farther away. The north part of Mercer Island is in the foreground. (Larry Dion / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle and the Olympic Mountains
  • A sailboat aptly named Neptune's Car blends in with Elliott Bay's urban scenery, as viewed from West Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Sailing past Seattle's symbol
  • A 35-foot-long French flag, specially made in Tukwila, flies at half-staff atop the Space Needle on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times).
    Seattle Space Needle and French flag
  • Clear skies bring out Mt. Rainier in the distance on a sunny April day in Seattle.<br />
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Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times
    Mount Rainier in the Distance
  • The Olympic Mountains create the backdrop as a Washington State ferry makes its way past two paddle boarders during its voyage between Edmonds and Kingston during sunset.<br />
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Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times
    Ferry at Sunset
  • The blue moon is seen above the Seattle skyline from Kerry Park on Queen Anne hill in Seattle on Friday, July 31, 2015. A blue moon occurs when there are two full moons in one month.<br />
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Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times
    Once in a Blue Moon
  • A couple enjoys a mild night on Pier 62 and 63 in Seattle as the Great Wheel and CenturyLink Field glow turquoise to raise awareness of lung disease as the American Lung Association of the Mountain Pacific kicks off National Women's Lung Health Week with a "Turquoise Takeover." <br />
<br />
Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times
    Turquoise Takeover
  • The clock tower at the King Street Station stands in front of a fog obscured Seattle skyline in the early morning.<br />
<br />
Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times
    Clock Tower in the Fog
  • Mother Nature shows her colors after a break in the rain showers off Pritchard Island Beach in the Rainier Beach neighborhood.  <br />
<br />
Jim Bates / The Seattle Times
    Rainbow over Pritchard Beach
  • The snow-capped Olympic Mountains loom behind the 520 Bridge over Lake Washington. <br />
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Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times
    Heading Toward the Mountains
  • A storm passes through downtown Seattle.<br />
<br />
Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times
    Passing Storm
  • View of CenturyLink Field at night taken from the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center from the Sky View Observatory. <br />
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Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times
    CenturyLink Field at Night
  • View from the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center from the Sky View Observatory. <br />
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Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times
    View of the Smith Tower
  • The Seattle Great Wheel located at the end of Pier 57. <br />
Ellen Banner / The Seattle Times
    Great Wheel on Pier 57
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