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I had been to, and shot from the Pittock Mansion viewpoint before, but my buddy has not, so we set out to see what we could find. We were hoping for a lot of fog. Nope. There was a bit, but you had to be creative to use it. "Creative," when used by photographers, usually means zoom lens. Here I used my Sigma 150-600 and stitched a panorama from 3 frames. It was so cold up there, but worth it.
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I took this while wandering around the West End of Portland, Maine. I liked the very neat appearance, the colors, the fence, and the large blooming rose plant. It appears to be a triplex. HFF
Tonight’s after sunset glow over Portland Bill Lighthouse in Dorset was beautiful. I nearly left as it was so cold and the sun took a dive behind heavy clouds half hour before this. I am glad I hung around now. This was a nine minute exposure using a ten stop filter to create the milky water and movement in the clouds.
The last spot on my Dorset trip was the Isle of Portland to visit the world famous lighthouse. I'd been to Portland a lot in the past, it used to be where the Royal Navy did their sea training but I'd never really been to the lighthouse. The lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1906 and is 41m tall. It was automated in 1996. I was planning on a sunset shoot here but due to time I had to visit whilst I was on my drive back to Plymouth.
A monochrome long exposure of the most iconic and frequently photographed lighthouses in the world
"Portland Head Light" in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA. The picturesque setting along the rugged coastline of Maine.
Poetry, etched in black and white
The LDS53 Canon City local is seen on the east end of the Tennessee Pass Sub with 2600ft for Lafarge Holcim in Portland. LDS53 runs Mon-Fri out to Portland in the late evening so it can be a good catch during the long summer months. Jul 29, 2019
UP LDS53 splits the DRGW intermediates outside of Portland, Colorado with an ex-DRGW GP40-2 leading a work train and four cars for Holcim Cement next door. CTC appeared on the route over Tennessee Pass as early as the 1920s, and despite the spectacular demise of the line nearly three decades ago, CTC is still operational between Pueblo and Parkdale. Since most of the signal installations on the Tennessee Pass were looted over the years, this is one of the few places where one can find unmolested GRS Type D signals from the Rio Grande days.
I saw this beautiful scene as we pulled out of Portland on the way to Halifax. The New England and Nova Scotia coastline is magnificent.
M420 #2045 leads Delaware Lackawanna's PT97 back west after swapping cars with the NS at Portland. The train is seen here about to pass under the Lackawanna Cut-Off, a high speed, largely grade-separated route built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR in 1911 as a faster route into New York City for their passenger trains. I believe the line saw its last trains in the 1970s or 80s and is currently abandoned. PT97 is on the original, and much less direct DL&W mainline.
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A Conrail Bangor & Portland local spends the weekend at Portland, Pennsylvania. The tall stack at the extreme right is part of Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station.
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Portland Bill Lighthouse has been standing majestically for the past one hundred and fourteen years at a height of 41 metres (135 ft). The distinctive red and white tower first shone its famous four flashes of light every twenty seconds on 11 January 1906 and had a range of 25 nautical miles which has guided passing vessels through the hazardous waters around Portland Bill as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel. The station was re-engineered in 2019 and the optic has been removed from the lantern room and re-erected in the tower base as a display. The range of light is now 18 nautical miles.