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Jewel Hamilton's wedding, with her sisters and cousin attending. L to R: Marie Hamilton Dubose, Irene Hamilton Searcy, Sherley Bain Adams (the groom), Jewel Hamilton Adams (the bride), and Belle Hamilton McClerkin. Unfortunately, cousin Ruth Hamilton is only partially seen at the right.
I happened to be walking in downtown Portland Oregon this afternoon when I saw a fire in a nearby apartment complex.. 50 people were displaced by the fire. One pet was lost, but many were saved by the fire department!
This dog was tough to pull over the rail!
Portland, March 2007. Dressed overall for her Service of Dedication as she entered service into the RFA
Takahiro Yamamoto - Direct Path to Detour
May 4-7, 2017
PICA at Hancock: Annex
Photo by Chelsea Petrakis
Courtesy of Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
Performed by Julian Barnett, Ayako Kataoka, sidony o’neal, and Takahiro Yamamoto. Music composed by Jesse MejÃa. Dramaturgy by Lu Yim. Costume design by Heather Treadway. Lighting design by Jeff Forbes.
Last weekend I visited Portland, Maine with my wife and one-year-old son. Due to graduate school I haven’t done much landscape photography lately, so I jumped at the opportunity to photograph Portland Head Light, the oldest lighthouse in Portland. The baby, seeking vengeance on me for the long car-seat ride, kept me awake until about 1am. I still managed to pull myself out of bed at 4am, albeit in a state of grogginess which resembled heavy intoxication. The grogginess persisted as I drove to the lighthouse, and as a result I managed to miss no fewer than 3 turns and run 2 red lights, even with my voice-guided GPS. Thankfully, there was no one else out on the road at that time! I arrived on the scene almost an hour early, but the access gate to the park was closed. I parked the car and attempted to problem solve the situation with all the mental prowess I could manage, which admittedly was not much. I was still in a fatigued stupor, and consequently I spent a great deal more time than I care to admit staring at the closed gate and doing nothing. It was surprisingly difficult to climb, and I was also afraid to damage my camera equipment, and so there I stood. Then, as fate would have it, the sky lit up in brilliant pinks and purples! This was the adrenaline shot I needed. I quickly found a spot where I could squeeze under the gate, and once through, I began racing towards the lighthouse. Unfortunately, the best light had dissipated by the time I arrived, so I contented myself to hunting for a composition, and waiting for the sun to rise above the horizon. This was the end result. I drank in the beauty of the scene for over an hour, and savored the solitude of the morning. Despite the lack of sleep, it was one of the most refreshing mornings I have had in a long time. Thanks for looking!
Photos from 2017 Kumoricon, Oregon Convention Center, Portland.
#kumoricon2017 #kumoricon
Please tag your friends in comments so they can find the photos!
My photos are not for sale or commercial use - you can download any of my Comic Con photos for FREE at Flickr
These photos are for you!
Thank you for all your fantastic costume creations!
I am gradually posting photos to my Instagram page at
and to my Flickr photo album at
(Photos will be added to this album in the days ahead).
You can download the originals and use them for what ever you want - these really are for you!
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I asked permission to take photos in almost all cases, and in all photos where I was aware of a child in the photo, I asked permission to take the photo and post here.
I did not ask permission for many group photos, where poses were being done for
photos, assuming that taking those photos was implied okay. If you have any questions please message me through my Flickr page. Thank you!
Some times I include photos of both front and back because often times cosplayers have created something elaborate on the back side - and they never get to see what it looks like!
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Camera details
Olympus E-M10 and Olympus E-M10 Mk II
Most photos taken with
Olympus 45mm
Lumix 25mm
Some photos taken with
Lumix 14mm (if its a wide shot its this lens) or a 40 year old Minolta 50mm lens.
#kumoricon #Kumoricon2017
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#characters #comic #comiccon #con #cosplay
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"An 1878 view of downtown Portland taken from Sixth and Yamhill, looking southeast. The cupola of the new Pioneer Courthouse dominates the skyline. *CORRECTION (Monday): The cupola belongs to the old Multnomah County Courthouse, since demolished. The new Pioneer Courthouse would be just outside this frame."
From the 2012 article "Downtown's houses: The ornate, the restored and the unnoticed" at: www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/06/downtowns_h...
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"Downtown's houses: The ornate, the restored and the unnoticed
By Mike Francis | mfrancis@oregonian.com
on June 02, 2012 at 4:21 PM, updated June 04, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Portland State University, which dominates the southwestern portion of downtown, is home to three century-old houses. The jewel is the 1900 Simon Benson House, at 1803 S.W. Park Ave. As Hawkins notes, the house's Queen Anne turret and Moorish porch signal an elegance appropriate for Portland timber baron and philanthropist Simon Benson. Benson gave the city its Benson Bubbler drinking fountains, the Benson Hotel, Benson Polytechnic, the land containing Multnomah and Wahkeena falls, and built the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River. The house was in danger of condemnation in the early 1990s, but the university and concerned citizens stepped in to move it from its former site at Southwest 11th and Clay and restore it on campus. Now it is the alumni center.
Hawkins once consulted on a plan to restore the Marston House, an 1893 Queen Anne that stands at 1622 S.W. 12th Ave. Although its onion dome has been removed and the first level clad in brick, the interior is intact, he said. It serves as home to PSU's Graduate Honors Program.
A third house, the Harder House at 1604 S.W. 10th Ave., has been radically modified and serves as a graduate systems science building.
The closest thing to an intact "century block" downtown is the south side of Southwest Jackson Street from Broadway around the corner to Sixth Avenue. Wrapping from the set-back, cut-away two-story at 2027 S.W. Sixth Ave., which seems to have been moved to the site, to the former Green Onion restaurant at 632-6 S.W. Jackson St., the block is home to a collection of 1900-era houses and apartment buildings. It was punctured by the unfortunate addition of a mid-century apartment complex on Southwest Broadway, and slashed by the curve of Interstate 405, but parts of it look much as they did when it was a thriving Jewish neighborhood 110 years ago.
A little farther to the east, several houses still stand, if precariously. Lawyer Randal Acker waged a vigorous campaign to stave off condemnation of his Queen Anne office at 525 S.W. Jackson St. after TriMet and Portland State had targeted it for redevelopment. Now it holds a lonely place between a PSU high-rise and a MAX turnaround.
On the block bounded by Southwest Fourth and Fifth avenues, College and Jackson streets, two radically remodeled houses linger in a block of missing teeth. A double-bayed Italianate dating from 1894 is a duplex at 1986 S.W. Fifth Ave. Around the corner at 420 S.W. College St., in an 1880 building that now houses Alexandrya Restaurant, a resident named Sarah Neusihin once pickled cucumbers and sold them in barrels on the sidewalk. Neusihin, sister to a rabbi, established a company that was later sold but whose name lingers in the Mrs. Neusihin's brand of kosher dills.
A couple of downtown houses, at 921 S.W. Clay St., and at 1421 S.W. 12th Ave., were built as rectories for the churches next door. The more attractive of them is four-square Hafner Haus on Southwest 12th, built in 1911. The other, a 1905 two-story listed by the city as "American Basic," was built the same year as the First German Evangelical Church -- now the Portland Korean Church -- next door.
Probably the most dramatic house still standing downtown is the 1879 High Victorian Gothic three-story built as a rectory for Archbishop Francois Blanchet, who conducted masses in now-demolished cathedral next door. Today his former house stands alone, home to Al-Amir Restaurant at 219 S.W. Stark St.
Surviving 100-year-old downtown houses
The survivors on the block: 420 S.W. College St. Built in 1880, the Queen Anne house was home to Neusihin Pickles. Since remodeled, it now houses Alexandrya Restaurant. It's around the corner from 1986 S.W. Fifth Ave., an 1894 Italianate duplex that had its double bays cut in half in a remodeling.
525 S.W. Jackson St. The 1894 Queen Anne survived redevelopment pressures and was renamed the Figo House by its commercial occupant, lawyer Randal Acker.
2021 S.W. Sixth Ave. Built in 1880. 2013-2015 S.W. Sixth Ave. Built in 1889. 2027 S.W. Sixth Ave. Built in 1880 and later sawed off to accommodate the highway. The Sanborn insurance map of 1901 shows the site listed as "Shed," so the house apparently was moved from another location. 624, 626 and 632-6 S.W. Jackson St., all built in 1900 in the Colonial Revival style.
1924 S.W. Broadway. Date unknown, but an apartment house in the same block was built in 1895. This Victorian Italianate was modified and is home to Baan-Thai Restaurant and Broadway Coffee.
Campus collection: On Portland State University's campus stand the attractive Benson House at 1803 S.W. Park, the Marston House at 1622 S.W. 12th Ave., and the radically remodeled Harder House at 1604 S.W 10th Ave. All are being used by the university.
The rectories: 1421 S.W. 12th Ave. Built 1911 in the Craftsman style, it stands next to Grace Bible Church. 921 S.W. Clay St. Built in 1905, the same year the First German Evangelical Church (now the Portland Korean Church) was built next door. 219 S.W. Stark St. The Bishop's House, was built in 1879 as living quarters for Archbishop Francois Blanchet, next to a cathedral that was demolished in 1894. Now it's home to Al-Amir Restaurant.
Next-door neighbors: 1326 S.W. 12th Ave. 1890, Queen Anne Vernacular, now houses a hair salon and law office, and 1318 S.W. 12th Ave., also 1890, a law office.
1134 S.W 12th Ave. The 1880 Morris Marks house, designed by architect Warren Williams. Must be relocated. It stands next to a Craftsman duplex at 1142-6 S.W. 12th Ave., listed by the city as being built in 1890. (Here's a link to a page with the City of Portland's 1984 historic resource inventory.)
1023 and 1015 S.W. Yamhill St. Both date from 1888 and both standing on their original sites, according to Hawkins. Across from the Central Library, they house a salon and a law office.
The apartment houses: z1402-06 S.W. 12th Ave. Possibly built in 1908 as a duplex, now divided into 10 units. 1515 S.W. 10th Ave. The Ada Apartments, with twin gables. 1415 S.W. 11th Ave. The Hidwell Apartments, built 1908, stand across from the 1882 Old Church.
The loner: 1123 S.W. Yamhill St. An 1883 Italianate that was later wrapped in brick still shows its double-bay shape, a chimney and a trace of the old back porch. It's known as the Tilbury/Rothman or just Tilbury Building, after the lawyers who worked there. One part-owner says it may go on the market soon, following a relocation of his practice. He also said it sometimes seemed to be haunted.
--Mike Francis"
HMS Portland F79 Type 23 (aka Duke-class) Frigate of the British Royal Navy arrives on the River Mersey for the CLT. She was assisted on the berth by Boluda tugs VB Belgie and VB Sandon.
Little fact: During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0 km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate at that time. (WIKI SOURCE). She is the eighth HMS Portland
IMO: 8949733
Pennant Number: F79
Name: HMS Portland
Vessel Type - Detailed: Military Ops
MMSI: 234627000
Call Sign: GDIS
Flag: United Kingdom
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Commander: Ed Moss-Ward
Gross Tonnage: .......
Displacement: 4,900t (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons)
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 133 x 16.1 m
Draught: 7.3m
Motto: Craignez Honte "Fear Dishonour"
Ordered: February 1996
Builder: Marconi Marine, Clyde, UK
Laid down: 14 January 1998
Launched: 15 May 1999
Sponsored by: Lady Brigstocke
Commissioned: 3 May 2001
Refit: LIFEX 2018 onwards
Propulsion Systems: CODLAG: x4 1510kW (2,025shp) Paxman Velenta 12CM 4 stroke 12 cyl diesel gens & x2 GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000shp) AND x2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines delivering 23,190kW (31,100shp) - these sounded absolutely amazing! Truly impressive!
Speed: In excess of 28kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 7,500 nautical miles (14,000km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement: 185 (accommodation for up to 205)
Sensors and processing systems: Sonar 2087
Electronic warfare & decoys: UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1 Seagnat & Type 182 towed torpedo decoy & Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament: Anti-air missiles: x1 32-cell GWS 35 Vertical Launching System (VLS) for: x32 Sea Ceptor missiles (1–25+ km). Anti-ship missiles: Up to x2 quad Harpoon launchers (x8 missiles). Anti-submarine torpedoes: x2 twin 12.75 in (324 mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Guns: x1 BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun & x2 30 mm DS30M Mk2 guns, or, x2 30 mm DS30B guns & x2 Miniguns & x4 General-purpose machine gun
Aircraft carried: x1 Westland Wildcat HMA2, armed with x2 anti submarine torpedoes OR x1 Westland Merlin HM2, armed with x4 anti submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities: Flight deck & Enclosed hangar
Back in the Old World, Candide gets some words of wisdom from the local street-sweeper.
Sketches from the dress rehearsal for the 2012 production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" at the Portland Opera.
On the evening before the Weymouth Vintage Bus Running Day, we had the usual evening run out to Portland Bill where five buses are lined up with the sea in the background. WIth the sun out, very long shadows caused by the photographers were unavoidable! In previous years, we just took one or two buses!
Up at 4am to drive to Portland Bill in time for sunrise. Was a dark, foggy and extremely windy morning with rough seas. We were the only people crazy enough to have been there at that hour of the morning. As it turns out, we didn't get a sunrise! Maybe next time.
Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.4s
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad 58 Fore Street Portland, Maine.
The mission of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum is to collect, preserve, display, interpret and operate historic railroad equipment from Maine’s two-foot gauge railways for the education and enjoyment of the public.
From the 1870s until the 1940s, some 200 miles of narrow gauge lines served the state’s smaller communities.
The Maine Two-Footers were the economic engine of Maine at the turn of the 20th Century. The perfect size for a big country with a small population, these five railroads hauled product—and a few people—from a huge interior rich in timber and other resources.
The idea of a two foot railroad came about after a Massachusetts man named George Mansfield visited Wales in the 1870s and saw the Festiniog Railroad.
In 1875 he established the Billerica & Bedford Railroad, the first commercial two-footer in America.
The other Maine two foot railways were Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes, Bridgton & Saco River (later the Bridgton & Harrison), Monson, Kennebec Central, Wiscasset & Quebec (later the Wiscasset, Waterville, & Farmington).
Portland Theater Concert Hall Sign en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Schnitzer_Concert_Hall
Yashica Electro 35 GSN, HP5 in Caffenol CL SS for 1 hour
The only surviving maritime signal tower in the United States: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Observatory
Photos from 2017 Kumoricon, Oregon Convention Center, Portland.
#kumoricon2017 #kumoricon
Please tag your friends in comments so they can find the photos!
My photos are not for sale or commercial use - you can download any of my Comic Con photos for FREE at Flickr
These photos are for you!
Thank you for all your fantastic costume creations!
I am gradually posting photos to my Instagram page at
and to my Flickr photo album at
(Photos will be added to this album in the days ahead).
You can download the originals and use them for what ever you want - these really are for you!
———————————
I asked permission to take photos in almost all cases, and in all photos where I was aware of a child in the photo, I asked permission to take the photo and post here.
I did not ask permission for many group photos, where poses were being done for
photos, assuming that taking those photos was implied okay. If you have any questions please message me through my Flickr page. Thank you!
Some times I include photos of both front and back because often times cosplayers have created something elaborate on the back side - and they never get to see what it looks like!
———————————
Camera details
Olympus E-M10 and Olympus E-M10 Mk II
Most photos taken with
Olympus 45mm
Lumix 25mm
Some photos taken with
Lumix 14mm (if its a wide shot its this lens) or a 40 year old Minolta 50mm lens.
#kumoricon #Kumoricon2017
#oregon #convention #center #anime
#characters #comic #comiccon #con #cosplay
#costumes #costume #people #popculture
#cosplayer #cosplayers