Seattle

[Roo]

[kevs]

Wow, that's a really beautiful picture

[CoderGuy]

Wow, that's a really beautiful picture

Very Nice, coming from north to south, that's the route United takes when I come home.

[GoVegan]

Seeing that picture makes me want to go back!

[deadohsky]

That's a great picture Roo.

[Roo]

Thanks, this is a great pic. Apparently a news reporter caught it out the window of a plane. This is much higher in altitude than the typical commercial carrier approach into Sea-Tac; notice the vantage point is as high as Mt. Rainier, which is roughly 14K feet. So I don't know what to make of exactly when it was taken, could be a Vancouver BC to Portland route? Interstate 5 bisects the lower left quadrant on the diagonal. Massive Lake Washington, 16 miles from North to South, is almost unnoticeable in the fog, taking up the upper left hand side of the picture. Dipping into Lake Washington, you can see the start of the floating bridge and the 3rd mile of Interstate 90, that starts here and goes all the way to Boston. Beyond Mt. Rainier on the far right of the horizon you can see Mt. St. Helens with it's broken top. In the lower right is the Aurora Bridge, 2nd to the Golden Gate as the most jumped-off bridge and top suicide spot in the USA, a dubious distinction at best. Under that bridge in the lower right is the start of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, designed and constructed by the Panama Canal team from 1911 to 1934, along which I currently reside. If this pic was 2 inches wider in the lower right I could circle my crappy apartment building.

[CoderGuy]

Thanks, this is a great pic. Apparently a news reporter caught it out the window of a plane. This is much higher in altitude than the typical commercial carrier approach into Sea-Tac; notice the vantage point is as high as Mt. Rainier, which is roughly 14K feet. So I don't know what to make of exactly when it was taken, could be a Vancouver BC to Portland route? Interstate 5 bisects the lower left quadrant on the diagonal. Massive Lake Washington, 16 miles from North to South, is almost unnoticeable in the fog, taking up the upper left hand side of the picture. Dipping into Lake Washington, you can see the start of the floating bridge and the 3rd mile of Interstate 90, that starts here and goes all the way to Boston. Beyond Mt. Rainier on the far right of the horizon you can see Mt. St. Helens with it's broken top. In the lower right is the Aurora Bridge, 2nd to the Golden Gate as the most jumped-off bridge and top suicide spot in the USA, a dubious distinction at best. Under that bridge in the lower right is the start of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, designed and constructed by the Panama Canal team from 1911 to 1934, along which I currently reside. If this pic was 2 inches wider in the lower right I could circle my crappy apartment building.

You described everything in the picture and didn't even mention the Space Needle at the extreme right. Yeah, it's hard to say what the route is, Vancouver or Anchorage to Portland seems likely. In any case, the photographer did a great job capturing the major landmarks.