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Portland at night panorama as seen from the view point at Pittock Mansion. Tons of people there during the day, but with the cold, most disperse before sunset, when the city lights make the view a lot better, and you can still see Mount Hood in the background. Don't know why I haven't taken pictures from this viewpoint before, it's made for panoramas. The original after the stitching is actually much wider, you can see the Convention Center and the Rose Garden on the left and more bridges to the right, but I liked this crop better.
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The morning light made the Portland skyline pop as I finished on the mailboat tour of Casco Bay, October 17, 2023.
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. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine.
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Portland Head Light sits at the channel entrance into Portland Harbor. It is the oldest lighthouse in Maine.
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.
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Portland Bill was built 118 years ago and replaced lighthouses that had been there since the 1700s. It is some 41meters tall (135feet) and there are 155 steps to the top. It first shone its familiar 4 flashes of light every20 seconds in 1906 and had a range of 25 nautical miles. In 2019 the lens was replaced with a modern LED technology light, which has a range of 18 miles.
Portland Bill - Portland is the name of the island and the bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) and is the most southern most point of Dorset.
With a healthy cut of grain up front, Portland & Western train 663 eases south through Vancouver with a quartet of GP39-2s. They'll return to home rails just south of Portland and continue on to Albany, OR.
This Irvington residence—set on one of the neighborhood’s most self-conscious streets—offers a near-textbook example of early 20th-century Portland ambition expressed in wood, shingle, and column.
Its disciplined, almost foursquare mass is overlaid with Craftsman textures and crowned, somewhat insistently, by a classical porch that aspires to temple status. Bay windows swell outward, gables multiply, and a diamond pane makes its cameo, each gesture perfectly defensible and collectively a touch breathless.
Built when bourgeois respectability was not merely acceptable but aspirational, the house reads as a declaration: its owners meant to be seen, placed, and properly understood. One imagines a household fully enrolled in the city’s social machinery, business, lodge, and pew—while embracing the newer comforts and stylistic freedoms of the Pacific Coast.
I’m looking forward to putting a name—and a narrative—to it using the pre- and post-renumbering street directories. Irvington rarely disappoints when you follow the paper trail.
What’s striking here is how close the house comes to tipping into incoherence—and how decisively it pulls back. The underlying mass is disciplined, the proportions sound, the junctions clean. Nothing feels tacked on or improvised. Even where the styles collide, they do so with a kind of confidence: details repeat, materials transition deliberately, and the whole suggests drawings rather than on-site invention. This is not a builder rummaging through a catalogue of effects. It is a scheme that was *thought through*.
And yet, it stops just short of real architectural authority. A stronger hand would have edited, subordinated, chosen a single governing idea and enforced it. Instead, the house accumulates—classical formality, Craftsman texture, multiple emphases—each well understood, none quite denied. The result is not the confusion of the modern McMansion, where elements are misread, but something subtler: **a house that knows exactly what it is doing and declines to stop doing it**. Whether the product of a compliant architect or an ambitious pattern-book design, it reads as a client’s wishes generously—and perhaps too generously—honored.
Read it and weep:
3/24/2026 Sold $1,646,000
+21.9%
$347/sqft
3/3/2026 Pending sale $1,350,000
$285/sqft
2/26/2026 Listed for sale $1,350,000
+47.5%
$285/sqft
2/25/2016 Sold $915,000
$193/sqft
Marquam Bridge with Portland light...The bridge is named after Philip Marquam, a state legislator and Multnomah County judge, who owned much of Marquam Hill where Oregon Health & Science University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center now stand. Wikipedia
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Portland Maine
Camera - Lomo'Instant Square Glass
Film - Fujifilm Instax Square
Scan - Epson Perfection V300 Photo
The lomo glass is capable of taking some incredible shots. It is a learning process with the camera as it does tend to over expose at times.
It was a disappointing trip down to Portland Bill to watch Storm Arwen batter the famous cliff and lighthouse – winds were gusting at up to 60 mph, but I hadn’t appreciated that as they were coming from inland and out to sea that the cliffs acted as a windbreak and the water in front of me was more or less calm.
The light though was pretty good, and I managed to get some nice cloud and sunbeam shots as well as explore the lighthouse itself which was open to visitors despite the storm (literally) blowing a gale outside
Portland Bill Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse at Portland Bill, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The lighthouse and its boundary walls are Grade II Listed.
The lighthouse is distinctively white and red striped, standing at a height of 41 metres (135 ft). It was completed by 1906 and first shone out on 11 January 1906.
The lighthouse guides passing vessels through the hazardous waters surrounding the Bill, while also acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel.
Portland Head Light is an 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