Love, snow and nightfall cover a multitude of sins. Tacoma is overall a beautiful city, but even the gritty parts are pretty at night. Crisp autumn nights are allowing me to grap some night shots. Here's a couple of our tall buildings downtown with freeway ramps along the right border of the photo. On the horizontal footbridge crossing the bottom third of the photo, you can see the two glass sculptures that stand like giant glowing swizzle sticks above the 15th st. offramp.
Zooming out a little allows you to see the permanent outdoor display cases of Chihuly glass sculptures on the east (right) end of the footbridge. (Please click on the photo to expand it.) You can also now see the glow of Pacific Ave. on the left. Thanks in part to the University of Washington Tacoma campus across Pacific Ave. from the Historical Museum (the domed building of the old Union Station), and an array of upscale restaurants, the streets of downtown Tacoma have come back to life in recent years.
As in other big cities, there are districts of Tacoma that never sleep. Here you see the steam rising from the industrial flats between downtown Tacoma and NE Tacoma on the far horizon.
Then there's our distinctive wooden event dome, glowing like a flying saucer in its ring of spotlights.
And here's what the new bridge construction looks like at night. Instead of raw concrete and iron rebar you see a string of pearls.
Zooming out a little allows you to see the permanent outdoor display cases of Chihuly glass sculptures on the east (right) end of the footbridge. (Please click on the photo to expand it.) You can also now see the glow of Pacific Ave. on the left. Thanks in part to the University of Washington Tacoma campus across Pacific Ave. from the Historical Museum (the domed building of the old Union Station), and an array of upscale restaurants, the streets of downtown Tacoma have come back to life in recent years.
As in other big cities, there are districts of Tacoma that never sleep. Here you see the steam rising from the industrial flats between downtown Tacoma and NE Tacoma on the far horizon.
Then there's our distinctive wooden event dome, glowing like a flying saucer in its ring of spotlights.
And here's what the new bridge construction looks like at night. Instead of raw concrete and iron rebar you see a string of pearls.
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