That's a lot of lightning in between the ‪#‎UTTower‬ and the Texas State Capitol. It's actually all hitting the antenna farm on the west side of Austin, near Loop 360.

This aerial image of the UT Tower and downtown Austin in the distance was taken on a clear January morning as the moon set in the southwest. Behind the iconic tower are the Texas Capitol, the Frost Tower, and the Austonian.

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This view of the Austin Skyline was photographed in late 2009. Although I grew up in Austin, the skyline has changed so much it's hardly recognizable. In this view you can see the University of Texas Tower lit up with the #1 on the left side of the image. The Capitol building is completely obscured by all the new towers. I did take a little license and remove a few cranes from the photo to hurry along the never ending construction.

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On Tuesday, November 17, I stepped out on the balcony of our condo (unit 2010 in the 360 Condominiums building) when I noticed that the The University of Texas Tower was lit orange yet again. When the tower is illuminated with orange lighting, it typically signals a UT sports win or some other celebratory event. In this case, it was lighted orange in honor of UT professor Dr. John B. Goodenough sharing in The Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation. (Apologies for the poor/grainy quality of this pic; my iPhone doesn't take very clear photos at a distance...) If you look closely, you'll see the UT Tower near the upper left of the photo (to the left of the crane); and you can see the Texas State Capitol building at the far right...

After a victory in football the previous night, the UT Tower is lit orange. This image of the Austin skyline and tower was captured in the early hours of a Sunday morning just as the sun began to show first light.

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No Photoshop here. I was at the top of Mount Bonnell a while back, before I purchased the drone, and shooting with my Nikon. Storms swept through. It was late in the day. Mean looking clouds were still over most of Austin but the sun came out as it was setting and this rainbow appeared. It traveled from north to south and I snapped this as it hit the tower.

UT Tower

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The University of Texas tower during the 2015 graduation ceremony. These are single frames.

The Texas Union Building (UNB), long the center of student activity at the University of Texas at Austin, was built in 1933 by Paul Philippe Cret. Constructed from limestone and ashlar fossiliferous limestone, the design is staggered and asymmetrical. It houses several restaurants, meetings rooms, a small campus store, a bowling alley, a pool hall, a movie theatre, a ballroom, the Texas Union Program Office, and The Cactus Cafe, a music venue originally known as the Chuck Wagon.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

UT Austin, Littlefield Fountain and Tower

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Hallway under the UT Tower.

More on the shot on my blog: michaeltuuk.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/under-the-ut-tower/

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The UTSOA celebrated 100 years this past weekend with a day long celebration. I was able to snap this pic quickly from my favorite spot on Friday night as the tower was lit orange with 100.

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The full-length portrait statue of George Washington, at the head of the South Mall in front of the Main Building at the University of Texas at Ausitn, was designed by Pompeo Coppini erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1955. Coppini's inclusion of a cane topped by a lion's head (the symbol of Britain) reportedly alludes to the artist's disdain of Britain's colonial aspirations in America. A bronze plaque in the pavement behind the statue marks the spot as reserved for the monument as of February 22, 1932.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

An observation deck, lined with a stainless steel lattice, sits just beneath the clock faces. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Witman, an architectural engineering major at the university, barricaded himself on the deck with a scoped Remington 700 deer rifle and various other weapons. In a 96-minute stand-off, Whitman killed 14 Austin residents and wounded many more. The deck was closed after that until 1968 and then closed again in 1974 following nine suicide jumps. Reopened in 1999, it was closed for two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, but reopened with additional security in 2004.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

The University of Texas Tower is lit up on a stormy night. This Texas image was captured from the ramp at DKR Texas Memorial Stadium near downtown Austin.

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The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

An observation deck, lined with a stainless steel lattice, sits just beneath the clock faces. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Witman, an architectural engineering major at the university, barricaded himself on the deck with a scoped Remington 700 deer rifle and various other weapons. In a 96-minute stand-off, Whitman killed 14 Austin residents and wounded many more. The deck was closed after that until 1968 and then closed again in 1974 following nine suicide jumps. Reopened in 1999, it was closed for two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, but reopened with additional security in 2004.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

An observation deck, lined with a stainless steel lattice, sits just beneath the clock faces. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Witman, an architectural engineering major at the university, barricaded himself on the deck with a scoped Remington 700 deer rifle and various other weapons. In a 96-minute stand-off, Whitman killed 14 Austin residents and wounded many more. The deck was closed after that until 1968 and then closed again in 1974 following nine suicide jumps. Reopened in 1999, it was closed for two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, but reopened with additional security in 2004.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

The West, designed by American artist Donald Lipski in 1987. Because Lipski uses found objects not merely for their visual attributes but more importantly for the associations that viewers might make in response to them, his sculptures invite speculation. The West consists of two spherical buoys, each measuring five feet in diameter. Such buoys can mark deepwater shipping channels and are often used to indicate where large commercial and military ships may anchor offshore. Their normal place is floating on open bodies of water. Now situated indoors on dry land, the buoys are no longer functional, like fish out of water. Instead of providing secure anchorage to ships, the two buoys are shackled uselessly to each other. To the blank surfaces of the metal buoys Lipski glued brand-new pennies. But the artist deliberately corroded them, perhaps an allusion to how quickly things become outdated. By incorporating actual money into this sculpture, Lipski invites us to speculate on possible meanings. Pennies are the smallest denomination of American currency and therefore may be considered the foundation of our affluence, even though we tend to ignore pennies as being of no importance.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

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The UT Tower lit up in honor of the University of Texas men's swimming and diving team winning the national championship.

How I generated and processed the shot here: http://michaeltuuk.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/ut-tower-in-orange/

[Update] I'm noticing that when viewing in chrome this pic doesn't look so hot. Looks fine in firefox and safari. Haven't ever noticed a difference b/w the browsers before but it's very noticeable in this one.

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The University of Texas tower is lit orange for the graduation ceremony and surrounded with fireworks.

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The Littlefield Memorial Fountain, locate in the South Mall at the University of Texas at Austin, was designed by sculptor Pompeo Coppini. Donated by Mayor George W. Littlefield as part of the the Littlefield Memorial Entrance Gate, the World war I memorial fountain was commissioned in 1919, it was installed in 1932 and dedicated on April 29, 1933. It comprises of three concentric pools on different levels with jets of water spraying on a bronze group featuring the personification of Columbia, the Spirit of Independence, returning from World War I on the bow of her war ship, the Boat of America. In her left hand is the Torch of Light and in her left is the Palm of Victory. She is flanked by two military figures--the Army on the proper left and the Navy on the proper right. Ahead of this arrangement are three plunging, finned sea-horses, symbolizing the ocean and mob hysteria, with the two outer ones mounted by merman, representing man's discipline.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

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The Peter T. Flawn Academic Center (FAC), formerly the Undergraduate Library and Academic Center, located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, is an undergraduate library and "technology and collaboration" facility. The center, named after former university president Peter T. Flawn in 1983, opened between 1963 and 1964. Upon its opening, the building featured the first open-stack library on campus for undergraduates along with much of the Humanities Research Center. Among the permanent displays in the Center's Leeds Gallery is a re-creation of Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner's study along with personal effects.

The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.

An observation deck, lined with a stainless steel lattice, sits just beneath the clock faces. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Witman, an architectural engineering major at the university, barricaded himself on the deck with a scoped Remington 700 deer rifle and various other weapons. In a 96-minute stand-off, Whitman killed 14 Austin residents and wounded many more. The deck was closed after that until 1968 and then closed again in 1974 following nine suicide jumps. Reopened in 1999, it was closed for two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, but reopened with additional security in 2004.

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.

from 37th floor of Austonian

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