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Taken in Portland, Maine right before a nor'easter.
I took this back in 1976 as a 35 mm slide. I had to do a lot of touching up to eliminate the dirt etc that accumulated over these years. DSC00148a (2)
These are stills from new time-lapse "Finding Portland"
More information and final video can be found at:
Portland Building - Portland Municipal Services Building
Architects: Michael Graves,
Emery Roth & Sons
Built: 1982
Location: Portland, OR
U.S. National Register of Historic Places since October 25, 2011
Architectural style: Post-modernism
Portland Building - Portland Municipal Services Building
Architects: Michael Graves,
Emery Roth & Sons
Built: 1982
Location: Portland, OR
U.S. National Register of Historic Places since October 25, 2011
Architectural style: Post-modernism
Portland Goddess art show and calendar release party.
check out the 2013 Portland Goddess Calendar - here
A long exposure taken about 6pm along the coast at Portland Bill. I used a £10 filter set which is horribly scratched and marked which shows in the image to extend this image to around one second catching the water falling off the rocks. The cheap filters cause orange colours to appear when stacked so I have done my best to transform the sky without losing too much colour.
One of TriMet's Gomaco-built replica heritage streetcars operating on the Portland Streetcar back in November, 2003. Two of these since-retired Gomaco "Council Crest" replica cars moved to St. Louis for a new trolley operation being built there. The other two went to the Willamette Shore Trolley operating out of Lake Oswego.
The Portland Camera Club was given access to photograph some of the facilities of The Portland Company through a contact of one of our club members with the owners of this company. The facilities are being vacated shortly and eventually new construction will take place. The several buildings, some of which are quite old, are located on the Portland harbor. This photo is an HDR taken on the second floor of Building 1. It is my conception of what an old industrial facility should look like with a nice wooden floor and lots of angular supports. Not sure if these are considered trusses. the walls are brick as many of the old factories are in New England.
The Portland Company is a nine acre industrial site with a commanding location on the eastern end of the waterfront. It was established in 1846 as a locomotive foundry to build railroad equipment for the connection between Portland and Montreal. It was a significant New England medium to heavy steel fabricator until 1978. It had a proud history of serving New England manufacturer's and utilities while building 628 locomotives 160 ships (including Iron Clads), equipment for the Panama Canal and so on. Presently the site has become a marine oriented complex with a small marina, several marine as well as other office tenants and an operating Maine two-foot narrow gauge railroad museum. (Company web site)
(more details later, as time permits)
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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.
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.
Mid-day on a Thursday in the center of downtown Portland….. most of the years I’ve been in Portland, this square was always busy. Of course, most of the times I’ve been in Portland in the past was when the weather was somewhat better, but that doesn’t explain the general lack of people on the streets downtown. While Portland has been criticized very heavily for its tolerance regarding the unhoused and people blame the empty streets on their presence, I suspect most of the lack of people is the shift to working from home that came with Covid. No matter, it’s depressing to see the emptiness.