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Photos from a trip to Portland and Woodburn, where we visited the Tulip Festival at Wooden Shoe Farms.
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
Photos from 2017 Kumoricon, Oregon Convention Center, Portland.
MORE PHOTOS will be added to this album as they are processed.
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My photos are not for sale or commercial use - you can download any of my Comic Con photos for FREE here 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
I am also be posting all the photos to my Flickr page where you can download the
originals and use them for what ever you want - these really are for you!
This album will be gradually updated as I select, process and edit over 1,000 photos.
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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.
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Nice write up from Portland Phoenix about my personal chef business back when it was called "Chef@home".
Chez your place?
Think personal chefs are only for the privileged? Then feel privileged
BY ANDY KING
It had been years since I’d seen someone wearing chef’s whites in my very own kitchen. My checkered pants and clogs have long since been hung in the closet alongside wife Jackie’s pastry jacket and toque, splattered with ancient pastry cream and cocoa powder from bygone jobs. So when we arrived home last Tuesday from a beer-steak sandwich-and-chicken wing luncheon at the Dogfish Café, we were slightly shocked to catch a glimpse of Chef Rick Barbata flashing around our place with a pan of sautéed leeks and bacon.
It’s true that we had hired him out to cook for a two-couple dinner we were hosting that evening, and it’s also true that we gave him a key to the house. So why were we surprised?
Your own apartment, or house, or parents’ house always carries with it a certain smell. Smell is the sense most strongly linked to memory, and I believe each and every one of you can remember a time when, traveling somewhere far from home, you stopped, smelled whatever was in the air, and said something like, "Wait a minute, why does it smell like Grandma’s house here in the Mekong Delta?"
When Jackie and I stepped into our house, we didn’t smell the typical dog fur and coffee that had nestled its way into the deepest regions of each room, but something else. Something wonderful.
It was the smell of absolution.
It’s that freedom from obligation and stress that Chef Rick is selling these days, after closing shop on Rick’s, on Congress Street, and serving a brief stint at Finch’s, in Falmouth. He is currently launching his own business, Chef@home, which specializes in high-quality, home-cooked meals for just about anyone who needs them. While parties and dates are by all means within his realm of expertise, he’s clearly passionate about allowing families to gather at the dinner table and enjoy their time together.
"We’re losing connections with our families," he explains, "We’re going out to dinner, we’re buying frozen food. It’s what I do best, cook with friends, and I think there’s a huge need for it."
His assertion isn’t just philosophical, either. According to the United States Personal Chef Association, the number of personal chefs (as opposed to private chefs, who live and work at a typically wealthy residence, or "crib") has gone from a negligible amount in 1992 to about 5000 in 2002, and is expected to double again by the end of this decade. Entrepreneur Magazine even rated it fourth in its list of Top Home-based Businesses for 2004.
While shopping, cooking, and spotlessly cleaning up for a number of families a week may seem like a lot of work to some, keep in mind that Rick used to work in Los Angeles, catering for movie production sets. And while meeting the stars of Titanic, My Best Friend’s Wedding, and The Cable Guy (among others) was cool for a time, he also worked 16-hour days trying to feed a 1000 people three squares: "I burn hot, so I don’t mind working, but three months at a time at about 90 different locations . . . it was just wild." So don’t feel bad about special requests.
But you probably won’t even have to do that, as Rick showed me a preliminary list of 300 items that he could prepare, from fried chicken to enchiladas with molé. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, lo-carb, Rick says he loves the challenge and the science of cooking specialized meals. You can plan for one meal or a week of dinners, frozen or fresh, and snacks for the kids and appetizers for next week’s visit from the Johnsons. You inherited Uncle Sven’s recipe for Swedish Meatballs, but you’re a hack at the stove? Hand it over. No problem.
We weren’t so picky when it came to our meal. All of us eat a good amount of anything, so I just wanted Rick to cook something he felt comfortable with, whatever looked fresh. The menu he came up with was perfect for the warming weather: watercress, grapefruit, and avocado salad with pomegranate molasses vinaigrette; Asian-style omelets with shiitake mushrooms, green onions, and miso; and seared diver scallops with rosti potatoes (fanned out and fried) and a bed of leeks and bacon, served over green pea puree. All of it tasted fresh, wonderful, and familiar, despite the detached familiarity of being served at your own dinner table. It’s the same feeling you get when you ride in the passenger seat of your own car for the first time.
Our menu might be too complex for your family every night, and Rick admitted as much, but it did speak to his self-described food philosophy: fresh and vibrant. "I don’t adulterate the food with a lot of complex ingredients. I let it speak for itself." And now, cooking at your house, he’s letting that food speak for you. So, vicariously through Rick, you can talk to food, and that’s the best deal of all.
Andy King
May 7 - 13, 2004
Portland is full of good food - lobsters, crab salads, gelato and more. I had a great time with family, learning about the region, playing games, taking tours and just walking around. Happy wedding, Eileen!
Digital mockup of a screenprint i’m working on for an upcoming group show. The theme is cliche(s) and the town I live in is most definitely full of them
I must wrestle with the spot color separations and pull an edition of 50 this week. It's for the "Littlest Print Show" and the finished size requirement is 3x3 inches
Photos from 2017 Kumoricon, Oregon Convention Center, Portland.
MORE PHOTOS will be added to this album as they are processed.
#kumoricon2017 #kumoricon
My photos are not for sale or commercial use - you can download any of my Comic Con photos for FREE here 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
I am also be posting all the photos to my Flickr page where you can download the
originals and use them for what ever you want - these really are for you!
This album will be gradually updated as I select, process and edit over 1,000 photos.
———————————
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
This "mock" cable tram runs to the RSL Lookout, a former water tower, in Portland, Victoria, Australia.
This homeless fellow was shouting some things at our group as we were doing the Underground Portland Walking Tour. "You're sucha lovely audience, I'd like to take you home tonight, I'd like to take you home!"
Portland, Oregon skyline with Mt. Hood overlooking. The classic view taken from the photographers favorite location at Pittock Mansion
There was more than one engineer hat, and a whole lot of trains spotted on a afternoon bike ride to train locale in Portland, Oregon. We met up fora greasy hearty breakfast at the Overlook (right off the yellow Max train line). Some of us even had a milkshake! And others of us had leftovers for the next two weeks. We then pedaled over to the Skidmore Bluffs for some trainyard spotting - a little quiet on a Sunday, and a group photo before heading to the main attraction of the day - the Columbia Gorge Model RR. With public open houses ONLY in November during Train Month! We were delighted by a minaturized Portland-Columbia Gorge (including Union Station, Multnomah Falls, and Crown Point). The train folk said our group (20+/- ) was the largest bike group they'd ever had, and they ran out with a camera to document the occasion. Also to be noted, since my last bike tour I led here a few years back, they had added a sign and area for bike parking! And we filled it. Then our group sped down the Russell Hill, and as we reached the bottom, we heard the Woo Woo of Train and had spotted yet another train! Then as we rode down Interstate we rode along side of another train!! And when we got to the Esplanade entry bridge we saw another train! (or was this just the same train?). Dusk was arriving and the Willamette River was glowing pink with sunset. We rode along the water to go the 'backdoor' route to Union Station over the train bridge. As we looked down we could see the 4:45 Empire Builder heading to Chicago loading up with passengers. At Union Station (now quiet) we had a wander - which included a trip to the Women's Lounge - everyone went - to see where they moved "the dig" artifacts (It's not like Union Staion doesn't have plenty of room elsewhere!). And then we wandered upstairs - Yes Union Station has an upstairs - and descended back into the Station in Baggage. We oohed and ahhed over the imported marble from Italy and earlier I told folks that the Broadway Bridge was painted to match Union Station and this railway station is the only one where a sturgeon has been caught inside the receiving department! (during a huge flood)! All these handy facts are from a little book on Union Station sold in the shop for 3.75! All day the weather had be holding off. There were a few droplets at this point as we biked out of the station, but our tour was almost over. On our way to the 'Sushi Train' we stopped to look a mysterious iron door with an old locomotive design on it just a few blocks from the station. At Burnside and Broadway is the Famous Sushi restaurant that has a train that brings you your food! Now that's total service. An it also happened to be Carl Larson's birthday and guess what the the Sushi Train brought him a Icecream Train Came! Yay! Alas we did not visit 'Peggy' up on the way to zoobomb hill - but it was train packed day and all is well. Woo Woo!