PDX photowalk 10-18-08

Part of the Looking Up set

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Palm Trees and Hotels

... of the gatehouse to the ruins of Thetford Priory - the staircase long gone.

Kaleidoscope Skylight

Really. Big. Tree. (I think it's the Tulip Poplar, in the back of the garden, 20 feet around.)

Dohany St. Synagogue

this is actually very much mostly sooc

Interior of the Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter

A lot of terra cotta panels on this building c.1900 - This panel must have been an uplifting experience for pupils arriving each day - I guess it would not be very PC today. Now used by the local authority as offices etc.

b l o g g e d

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深川神明宮

handheld 1/10s view from reading seat (shared with cat Woody) - with review deadline, wisdom tooth recovery and arctic temperatures outside, I spent whole day reading - though for much of the afternoon Woody had this space to himself and I was on chair to the right of frame

Fisheye of tree in Oak Park in Tampa.

These ferns cover a low retaining wall. They grow like weeds here, though I still like them. (The camera was on the sidewalk, angled upward.)

It was overcast all day -- tame remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Detail above front entrance - SANDSTONE AND CERAMICS. This detailing is unusual in that it lacks the 'flourishes' of the Art Nouveau and the transition to Edwardian - in fact it is slightly 'art deco' in character and pre dates CRM's work at Derngate, Northampton - 1916 - 1917.

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post processed in Lightroom (exposure, clarity, split tone, curves, sharpening)

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From under a fir tree

Corner of Winslow and Madison