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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. ;-)
Even on a cold and grey day, Macs Hotel, looking as proud as ever in the main (Bentinck) street in Portland, Victoria, Australia.
This is a photo I shot at Portland Bill, the southernmost point of Dorset, UK. I must admit I had high hopes for it, as I remember I liked it already from the moment I "saw" the frame in reality and then into the camera's viewfinder. But I was kinda avoiding to process it as the light was too soft and the atmosphere too hazy and I knew it would take me lots of time to get where I wanted - if I ever managed to...
After some initial trials and failures a few days ago (that did show me though the right way to follow), yesterday I decided to go all the way and settle this in a "now or never" fashion. Took me a couple of hours to finish but I must say I'm quite pleased by the result, very close to what I had in mind as I took the photo.
Μια φωτογραφία που έβγαλα στο Portland Bill, το νοτιότερο σημείο του Dorset στην Αγγλία. Η αλήθεια είναι ότι είχα υψηλές προσδοκίες απ' αυτήν καθώς θυμάμαι ότι μ' άρεσε πολύ απ' την πρώτη στιγμή που "είδα" το κάδρο στην πραγματικότητα και κατόπιν στο σκόπευτρο της μηχανής. Απέφευγα όμως συνειδητά να ασχοληθώ μαζί της καθώς το φως της σκηνής ήταν υπερβολικά αντίξοο και η ατμόσφαιρα θολή και ήξερα ότι θα μου έπαιρνε πολύ προσπάθεια και χρόνο για να φτάσω στο αποτέλεσμα που είχα φανταστεί (αν τα κατάφερνα και ποτέ...)
Μια φωτογραφία που έβγαλα στο Portland Bill, το νοτιότερο σημείο του Dorset στην Αγγλία. Η αλήθεια είναι ότι είχα υψηλές προσδοκίες απ' αυτήν καθώς θυμάμαι ότι μ' άρεσε πολύ απ' την πρώτη στιγμή που "είδα" το κάδρο στην πραγματικότητα και κατόπιν στο σκόπευτρο της μηχανής. Απέφευγα όμως συνειδητά να ασχοληθώ μαζί της καθώς το φως της σκηνής ήταν υπερβολικά αντίξοο και η ατμόσφαιρα θολή και ήξερα ότι θα μου έπαιρνε πολύ προσπάθεια και χρόνο για να φτάσω στο αποτέλεσμα που είχα φανταστεί (αν τα κατάφερνα και ποτέ...)
Τελικά μετά από μερικές μάλλον αποτυχημένες αρχικές προσπάθειες πριν από μερικές μέρες (που όμως μου έδειξαν το δρόμο που έπρεπε να ακολουθήσω), χτες αποφάσισα ότι ήρθε η ώρα να ασχοληθώ σοβαρά και με πατριωτική έξαρση του στυλ "ή τώρα ή ποτέ" στρώθηκα στη δουλειά. Μου πήρε 2-3 ώρες για να τελειώσω αλλά ομολογώ ότι το αποτέλεσμα με ικανοποίησε και σίγουρα είναι πολύ κοντά σ' αυτό που "είδα" όταν πρωτοαντίκρισα την σκηνή.
Self-Portrait Series I - Portland Portraits
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.
This is an odd, somewhat high contrast self-portrait, but I do enjoy the man vs. nature that occurs in the background, as well as the intense brow ridge and shadows that play across my face.
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major public buildings in London such as St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. It is also exported to many countries—Portland stone is used in the United Nations headquarters building in New York City, for example.
A quick snap with my compact camera of Portland Bill Lighthouse on a beautiful but cold day in Dorset
A Stormy afternoon at portland Bill, shot between the rain showers. the low winter sun lighting the Rocks.
Not so sunny the previous day. The route onto, and back off, this rock, via the hand/footholds in the slab of stone leaning against it, was not something I was ever likely to be attempting myself.
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.
Oh, what a beautiful beast! I knocked on that mighty bumper. It was like striking a cast-iron radiator.
If only I had a garage to shelter her from the elements. Well, since it probably lacks seat belts, I wouldn't want to risk driving it anyway. So there!
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Memory Lane Motors, Portland, Oregon
"Here’s a nice little Buick Sedanette, wonderfully restored to factory stock! It draws its power from a 248ci Straight Eight engine with a Dynaflow automatic transmission. It’s nicely finished in the original color of Niagara Green and has a nicely stitched Gray cloth upholstery. The chrome and stainless is in very good condition throughout, especially the grill that’s so impressive on these cars. This is nice, smooth driver and runs excellent."
Our Lady of Victories stands tall in Monument Square honoring Portland's native sons who fought to preserve the Union during the War of the Rebellion. Portland, Maine, USA.
Nuestra Señora de las Victorias se erige en Monument Square en honor a los hijos nativos de Portland que lucharon para preservar la Unión durante la Guerra de Rebelión. Portland, Maine, Estados Unidos.
The Lighthouse stands out at Portland Bill. I love it out there. If the wind is blowing? It blows away the cobwebs!!
We're well into fog season here in Portland, so I thought I'd post up a panorama I took on the East Bank Esplanade a couple years ago. It's a little tricky shooting panos from this dock, and I had to throw out a few frames that were a bit soft because of the dock's movement, but luckily I had taken a few additional sharp shots.
Technical details: 6 photos at 16mm, f/9, 6s, ISO 100, Canon 6D and 16-35 f/4L.
Thanks for taking a look!