I Heart My City: Charyn’s Seattle

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In June 2010, food, travel, and lifestyle journalist Charyn Pfeuffer swapped her BlackBerry for a backpack to volunteer with 12 community projects in 12 countries over 12 months. After volunteering more than 900 hours for her Global Citizen Project, she’s back home in Seattle, Washington, to share all things food, travel, and volunteering. In another Wednesday edition of I Heart My City, read Charyn’s insider tips to Seattle, then tell us what you love about the Emerald City in the comments section below.

Seattle Is My City

The first place I take a visitor from out of town is Ray’s Boathouse, a restaurant in Ballard. The views of seals playing, Puget Sound, and snow-capped Olympic Mountains from the upstairs deck are pretty spectacular. Plus, you see working fishing boats returning to Salmon Bay with their catch, so the seafood is about as fresh as it gets.

Iceland Photos

 

Glacier Lagoon

During one of my last few days in Iceland I drove back to the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon and the nearby black-sand beaches to see if any fresh icebergs had washed ashore, as indeed they had. This iridescent blue iceberg, polished by the waves, was beautifully backlit and was glowing from within when I set up my tripod and took this photograph.

Aurora Sky

Cold-weather shooting at minus 15°C can be painful, but patience pays off eventually. This was a 30-second exposure of some of the most spectacular aurora dance moves I've ever seen.

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Glacial Ice

Seljalandsfoss

This shot was taken during our family tour to Iceland. This waterfall is called Seljalandsfoss. During this trip we used a motor home, so we camped about 500 meters from the beautiful waterfall. I took this image during sunset before our dinner at 10 p.m.

Vietnam Cave

Conquering an Infinite Cave

There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. And the end is out of sight.

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A Cry for the Tiger

A tiger peers at a camera trap it triggered while hunting in the early morning in the forests of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Tigers can thrive in many habitats, from the frigid Himalaya to tropical mangrove swamps in India and Bangladesh.

A poacher's snare cost this six-month-old cub its right front leg—and its freedom. The limb was amputated after the tiger had been enmeshed for three days in a snare in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Unable to hunt, the tiger now lives in a zoo on Java.