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Southeast 12th Avenue, Portland.
This image focuses on the entry sequence, where the house compresses its decorative energy into a small space. Slender turned posts support the porch roof, while a balustrade of closely spaced spindles creates a delicate screen above. The brackets curve inward in a stylized gesture, emphasizing ornament over structure. The paint scheme highlights each component, making the woodwork read as pattern as much as construction. The door itself introduces a more formal note, with its centered oval glass panel contrasting with the linear rhythm of the surrounding elements. The stair rails echo the verticality of the spindles, reinforcing the sense of enclosure. The porch reads as a theatrical threshold, marking the transition from street to interior with an intensity that reflects an earlier decorative vocabulary still lingering at this late date.
This 1894 house represent a final, confident flourish of late nineteenth century domestic architecture, built at a moment when the full expressive vocabulary of the Queen Anne style was still being deployed even as taste was beginning to shift toward restraint.
They are not backward-looking in their own time. Rather, they sit at the crest of fashion, in a period when ornament was both culturally valued and increasingly accessible through industrial production. Their facades operate on multiple levels at once. The gables function as theatrical display surfaces, with bold sunburst panels and paired colonnettes that flatten the wall into graphic pattern while hinting at the emerging discipline of classical pediments.
The surfaces are deliberately varied, combining fish scale shingles, clapboards, and applied panels to create a controlled play of textures that signal craft, expense, and cultural awareness.
Projecting bay windows push outward into the street, asserting presence and capturing light, gestures that take on an almost defensive quality in their current setting along a busy arterial.
The entry porch compresses an earlier decorative vocabulary into a small but highly expressive space, with spindlework and curved brackets that were already beginning to fade by the mid 1890s. Painted ornament amplifies all of these effects, turning the facades into visual compositions meant to be read as much as inhabited.
Although 1894 may seem late for such exuberance, this moment coincides with the peak availability of ornamental millwork, even as new influences such as those introduced at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair had not yet fully reshaped residential design in Portland.
These houses therefore occupy a transitional moment, where exuberance persists but underlying order begins to assert itself. Their original context assumed a calmer, more legible street and a social world in which domestic display carried meaning. Today, surrounded by traffic and larger buildings, they read as poignant survivals, still insisting on visibility, individuality, and cultural aspiration in an environment that no longer supports those values.
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Sasquatch spotted in Portland, PA, wandering around the parking lot at Fuhrer's Tavern & Grill! You have been warned!
The breed became very rare although there were always Portlands at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, where a flock had been established in 1770.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Dec 10, 2013
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Virtually everyone in America, as well as millions of other people around the world, know that Thanksgiving is one of the main occasions for organizing a huge parade.
It’s especially true in New York City, where I live — hundreds of parade workers converge on a one-block stretch between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West on 77th Street on the night before Thanksgiving to assemble the floats, and pump the huge balloons full of helium, so they’ll be ready to go the next morning. The parade itself lasts for hours, and stretches all the way down Central Park West and Broadway, and ultimately through Herald Square and past the main entrance to Macy’s on 34th Street. The whole thing is televised for the benefit of viewers all around the world, with TV commentators and an endless procession of marching bands, baton-twirlers, singers, dancers, jugglers, magicians, Broadway actors, and other forms of entertainment…
While New York City may be the only example of a Thanksgiving-Day parade that people around the world actually see on their TV screen, it’s definitely not the only such parade that takes place in this country. I’m sure that every big city has its own version of the turkey-day parade, as do most of the medium-size cities, and quite a few smaller towns and villages, too. They may not be visible on television, but a lot of local citizens and visitors turn out to watch such parades, if only because their sons and daughters are typically marching in the high-school bands that form a big part of the event.
On this particular occasion — in November of 2013 — I happened to be in one such medium-size city, where the parade took place on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It was in Portland, Oregon where we were spending the holiday period with one of our sons and his family; the parade took place in the “Pearl District” of downtown Portland … and, to our amazement, we were able to park our car about a block from the parade route, and walk right up to the corner (at Davis St and NW Park, if you want to track it down on Google Maps) where all of the bands and floats and costumed marchers walked by. In fact, I was able to take the “parade experience” even one step further: the people were friendly enough, and the security was light enough, that I was able to walk right out into the middle of the street with my camera, to photograph the floats and bands and marchers as they approached me … scampering out of the way only at the last moment.
Admittedly, Portland is a much bigger city than a tiny village of a thousand people somewhere in the midwest … but it still felt like “small town America” to me, and it was a great spectacle to watch. I got the impression that many of the visitors and observers standing along the street actually knew the people marching past them … and in any case, the marchers laughed and smiled and walked right up to us, handing out little pieces of candy to all of the children. Maybe next year I’ll go looking for a really small Thanksgiving parade in one of those tiny midwest-America villages, before retreating back to the Big Apple to watch the spectacle of thousands of marchers parading past millions of observers, and a TV audience of tens of millions …
I wish that I had taken some video clips of the parade, because the sounds and the music and the motion were a big part of what we experienced. But for better or worse, all I took was a bunch of traditional still photos. Actually, I took a LOT of still photos — nearly a thousand, altogether — but I’ve winnowed the collection down to 50 “keepers” that I hope will give you a sense of what Thanksgiving is all about…
Actually, if you live anywhere besides New York City here in the U S of A, you already know what Thanksgiving is all about, at least to the extent that it’s symbolized by the parade. But for those of us who spend most our time in New York City, it was a very pleasant experience indeed. After an hour, it was all over; we walked back to our car a block away, and drove back to our son’s house … and a day later, we were back in New York City. And thus ended another Thanksgiving holiday, at least until 2014.
The exterior of the original Portland station, opened in October 1865 as the terminus of the Weymouth & Portland Railway. Naturally built from Portland Stone the building is seen here in 1969, shortly before its demolition to make way for a roundabout. When the line was extended to Easton on the top of the Island under the auspices of the Easton & Church Hope Railway in 1902, trains to and from Easton had to reverse in-and-out from the original terminus station here, until a new 'through' station was opened on the Easton line on 7th May 1905. The original Portland station then served as a goods depot, until total closure of the line in April 1965.
The Portland Bill lighthouse was built in 1906 and is 35m tall. To the left is the Trinity House Obelisk, which was built in 1844 to warn of the presence of a low rock shelf. I confess that this one is a bit of a tourist shot!
Portland, OR
This is another mega HDR Panorama image and the processing of this version is very similar to the previous ones, except for the following one key difference!
In my quest to find the best HDR software that produces a natural looking tone mapping, I downloaded a trial version of HDR Expose3 last night. I processed a couple of images so far and the results are as advertised. This software produced very sharp and natural looking images so far. I was very impressed with its de-ghosting abilities. It also produced clean edges without any halos. The software interface is intuitive and simple enough that I was able to pick it up rather quickly. I plan on doing some more processing in the next few days to see if the results continue to be good.
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Processing of this one is same as the previous one. In this case, I took only 3 of the 6 panorama frames. Please see the previous caption for details.
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Dranouter Festival 2018
3-AUG-2018
Jente Pironet Vocals & Guitar
Sarah Pepels Vocals and Keyboartd
Gill Princen Keyboards
Arno De Bock Drums
© Patrick Van Vlerken 2018
Portland Head Light, is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
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Written on back: "3508 SE Washington St Portland 1922-1947". This photo was taken from 35th, at the side of the house.
The Olympic Rings mounted high on the hill at Portland. Cut from Portlland stone these were commissioned as part of the London 2012 Olympic Games, for which all the rowing activies took place nearby Portland and Weymouth
went up to get some star shots as the good old weather man said it would be a clear night um should of know better