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Amazon’s Rivian Delivery Trucks

Amazon became an investor in Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer.  Part of this investment resulted in Rivian creating a new delivery vehicle for Amazon that is electric.  I first became aware of it when watching a Doug DeMuro video but it wasn’t long before they started showing up around here.  We do have Amazon’s headquarters here so it shouldn’t be a surprise.  I have seen them on the roads a lot but have not been able to get a shot of one because I was driving.  Then one showed up at work, so I took a few pictures from my window before it headed off.  It took me back to the unusual FedEx delivery vehicles I saw when we lived in Chicago but, of which, I have seen nothing since.

A Better Go at a Prime Air 737

In this recent post, I showed a shot of an Amazon Prime Air 737.  With a bit more notice and better timing from an availability point of view, I saw that another jet was coming in to Paine Field from Anchorage.  It was being delivered from the conversion line in China and would have the finishing touches taken care of by ATS at Everett.  I was there and set up in plenty of time – except… I had one camera ready to go but the other one had been previously used for some video at home and was on manual focus.  I was shooting with the 500mm initially and all was well.  As the jet got closer, I switched to the 100-400 and everything was wrong.  Nothing would focus.  It seemed like forever but I must have realized fast and flicked the focus switch because I was able to shoot it as it came level with me and crossed the threshold.  What an amateur mistake.  Fortunately, I got away with it!

Amazon Prime 737

The Amazon Prime fleet of 767s has grown to be pretty huge.  Initially, I was excited to see one out and about but now they are like Southwest 737s!  However, the new addition to the fleet is the 737-800.  A bunch of them have been showing up and, prior to delivery to Sun Country that will be operating them, they have been coming through Everett, presumably for some final work at ATS.  Sadly, I haven’t been able to get up there to see them.

I did get one of them head past the house, though.  It was departing for Minneapolis and its routing took it close to us.  Not as close as I would have liked but enough for a heavy crop with a long lens.  Not ideal conditions for sure.  In the same way the 767s are now ubiquitous, these will no doubt be before to long.  However, this was my first encounter.  Maybe next time I will be a bit closer – even if it does mean moving away from my driveway!

Back to the Spheres

Spheres visits have shown up in a bunch of posts.  When my sister visited last year, I took a different approach to my photos and focused a lot more on the weird and wonderful plants that are growing within the Spheres.  Here is a selection of fascinating looking plants that I was taking a look at.  Nature certainly produces some amazing shapes.