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The silos at Portland Cement Works, NSW.
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Just got back from a stay in the New England States for a fall getaway. My wife has always wanted to visit Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine to do some "leaf peeping". :) We drove from Boston to Vermont (Vermont Country Store and Stowe) to Moosehead Lake in Maine and then over to Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, Kennebunkport, Salem and down the coastline back to Boston. Lots of driving, seafood (my first lobster roll) and fall colors. Here's my first image I downloaded.
This is the Portland Head Lighthouse in Portland, Maine.
Mike D.
Memorial for Sarah Pliner, who was killed in this intersection while riding her bicycle on October 4th, 2022, when she struck a turning semi-truck. Pliner was a celebrated chef and the founder of the acclaimed Portland restaurant Aviary.
Portland Pano during the blue hour. Downtown Portland from Pittock Mansion. Mt. Hood in the distance. Great city. 10/10 would visit again.
With the current pandemic crisis on going,very few criuse ships are working.Most are at anchor just offshore,or come in to port for refuelling and maintenance.
Self-Portrait Series I - Portland Portraits - 05 - Faces
1.3 Megapixel Samsung Camera Phone
This is from a series of close-up self portraits I took with my 1.3 megapixel camera phone in downtown Portland, Or, around 7 in the morning on Saturday, June 16th, 2007.
I liked the framing I made of my face in the window on this shot. The small head acts as a reflection of inner self, whereas the larger head is the outer shell of self. The expression seems to shift from the foreground 'real' face, upon which I seem to have a calm expression, to the reflected face in the window, upon which is a more intense and aggressive look.
Once again I am happy with the texture of the shirt.
Portland - Dorset
Also known as the Western Jackdaw or the Eurasian Jackdaw.
Such a beautiful bird which is very much overlooked.
The Simon Benson House is a Queen Anne–style residence built around 1900 for the Norwegian-born timber baron Simon Benson, on the southeast corner of SW 11th and Clay in downtown Portland.
It's a two-and-a-half-story frame structure clad in lapped weatherboard, with the varied hipped-and-gabled roofline, bracketed hoods, wraparound porch, and leaded-glass windows characteristic of the style — though, as Leland Roth notes, a comparatively restrained example of it.
A nice wrinkle for anyone interested in Portland's Victorian stock: one of the city's wealthiest men chose a George F. Barber mail-order catalogue design rather than commissioning one of Portland's established turn-of-the-century architects, preferring to spend on his businesses and his considerable philanthropy.
Inside, each room was paneled in a different species of wood — a fitting flourish for a lumberman.
Benson himself lived there only briefly. The family moved out in 1913, around the time he opened the hotel that still bears his name, and the house began its long second life as rented space — successively a single residence, a boarding house, and then subdivided apartments.
In the 1930s it became a boarding house and was later cut up into apartments, and over the decades it accumulated deferred maintenance and neglect.
The preservation-by-listing gambit failed. The city nominated the house to the National Register in an effort to encourage upkeep, and it was listed in August 1983 — but neglect continued until 1991, when the city condemned it as a dangerous building.
The owner shuttered it and left it to rot. By the end of the decade the roof had failed, the building was no longer weathertight, and it was routinely occupied by vagrants — a textbook case of demolition by neglect, with a developer eyeing the land underneath.
The pilferage is the vivid part. During the years it stood vacant, thirteen of its original art-glass windows were stolen and sold. Remarkably, they were later recovered with the help of the Portland police, so the restored house retains much of its original glass — plus one salvaged window from another circa-1895 Queen Anne, donated by a PSU alumnus.
The rescue was an unusual public-private effort. City Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury organized a coalition of the State Historic Preservation Office, the Portland Development Commission, city agencies, charities, and private donors; the Friends of Simon Benson House raised the roughly $1.6 million needed to move and restore it, with PSU donating the land.
In January 2000 the house was lifted off its foundation, set on wheeled carriages, and moved three blocks to 1803 SW Park Avenue, in the Park Blocks at the edge of campus. SERA Architects and P&C Construction handled the rehabilitation — new plumbing, electrical, and seismic systems, replicated chimneys, reproduced curved porch work, and refurbished interior woodwork including the cherry wainscoting and front stair.
It was relisted on the National Register in 2002 at its new location and today serves as the PSU Alumni Association's home and campus visitor center — with a Benson Bubbler, appropriately, out front.
This one is a bit of a disappointment for me. I wanted to get to this light a little earlier but traffic and a wrong turn did me in. Add in the fact the temps are about 20 degrees with a stiff wind (real feel about 13 degrees) and it was time to make the best of a bad situation. Took several long exposures and this was the best of the bunch but it's not the shot I wanted. I guess I'll just have to go back again some day. ;-)