Dawn Chorus
One of the last Maine Photography Meetups for me today down by Evergreen Cemetery in Portland. Read More “Dawn Chorus”
Portland Observatory TTV
I haven’t uploaded a Through The Viewfinder shot for a while, so here you go… This is from a while back, the first week of ‘spring’ on a phototour Portland, ME. Because of the way Maine’s coastline works incoming ships couldn’t be seen from the harbour so they built this here observatory (not a lighthouse) on the hill so they could see when boats were on their way into the port and sound the horn/ raise the flags to tell the dockers to get on it. Read More “Portland Observatory TTV”
It’s time for Winter Tweets
I could never get the hang of Twitter, but 24 hours later I’m liking Google Buzz. This is taken through the window of one of those shops that makes you wonder how they manage to stay in business. East Portland, Maine…
Christmas Dex in Portland, ME
For First Friday Art Walk in Portland I met up with the usual suspects for a couple of hours of night urban photography. I tried to do the whole thing flash-less which meant some nice bokeh wherever I pointed the camera.
Going Out in Portland, Maine
From Saturday’s Maine Photography Meet-up in Portland harbo(u)r. It’s got decidedly colder since then. Snow/Ice on its way… On the plus side, I’m an amateur photographer with free heating and don’t work on a tugboat…
Feathers
Matey here was following us when we went lobster fishing. The bait from the lobster pots gets chucked into the sea and is replaced with fresh herrings. The seagulls were well used to this process and having them hover close by made them prime targets for me camera.
Un trozo de metal
Even the dodgy bits of Portland have their charms.
Baisicol
I want to ride my bicycle, but there appear to be issues of scale.
Bifurcation
This was a week ago, there’s barely any blossom left now. Which means you’ll be spared more spring pictures for the forseeable future…
Guitarras
Eyes right to see what’s coming soon 😀
Because I’m worth it.
The Blossom Globe
I can’t seem to vary the subject matter lately, but I can vary the lenses. Here’s what it was like to be outside in Portland yesterday. With a sudden onset of tunnel vision.
Jailbreak
From a recent walk with young ‘Cus…
Particles and Waves
vfxy.com has featured my little blog as their photoblog of the week which is quite an honour, considering the level of quality over there. They must have been running out… Anyroad, it means I’m going to have to try for a higher quality of pix because of the increased traffic. If you’re here from vfxy, thanks and BIENVENIDOS! and can I interest you in some subscription options?
This photo is from the magic hour in the back garden here in Portland, Oregon.
For Rent
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Desirable one-bedroom residence would suit small family of birds. Nestles in Portland’s green belt and complies with all seismic codes…
Slug Crossing
We used to live in Santa Cruz. UCSC has the banana slug as its school mascot (“No known predators”). This sign is from yesterday’s wanderings about Lewis & Clark campus in the snow. It’s all melted today. Weird weather… weird signage…
Anyroad, a few business items… First off, one of my mates who is a proper, professional photographer, Mr. Joop Rubens has started a photoblog to go with his flashy pro site, and I urge you to check it out. He’s been into photography for donkey’s years and got into digital about 5 years ago and has enviable portrait skillz.
Next off, I’m considering consolidating my RSS feeds so that if you’ve signed up for photoblog emails, you’ll get my blog updates too. If that sounds like a bad idea, contact me in the next day or two and I may well reconsider. I try to put photos in all my blog posts too… If you’re signed up for both already, you can still unsubscribe from one or t’other.
Thirdly, I’ve still not printed the photos I promised you and for that, I suck. I’m on it, it’s always on my mind and maybe this is the week I’ll make good on my promise.
Fourthly, I got ebaying over the weekend and should have a 50mm 2.0 prime lens to play with in the very near future which is a whole new area to me and I’m looking forward to experimenting. I’ve another vintage viewfinder on its way too, a Kodak Duaflex II, hopefully full of dust, scratches and blemishes all ready to have a Pringles tin strapped to it.
I won’t write any more here cos it puts the whole balance of the design out when there’s tons of text. I’m offski 🙂
‘Squirl’
This rum customer stayed staring at me for quite while, calculating his escape no doubt. I’m not used to such attention as Atticus usually frightens off anything alive and under 15 kilos within a 2 mile radius…
Sorry about the absence of posts of late, you know how it is. A new season of Lost starts and everything goes to pot. What with the surprisingly decent weather at we’re enjoying at the minute I should get out more and spend less time on facebook. Talking of which: 
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En recherche du noel perdu
Strike me down if it didn’t only go and snow again this morning. ’bout time too. I don’t mind putting up with icy temperatures as long as there’s something to show for it other than frostbite. It more or less all melted by the afternoon though.
The photos this week might well come from the archives rather than fresh off the SD card, apologies in advance
The Cute Book
This one’s from Powell’s cooking and crafts bookshop on Hawthorn(e?). Taken through the fisheye obviously, which has been enjoying something of a renaissance in my affections of late.
Dr.Sita’s in Tulane till Friday so Me and Atticus might finally get round to getting some pictures printed and sent to my beloved subscribers.