Holiday Inn By the Bay

A few night shots of Portland's Holiday Inn (By the Bay). This one was built in 1973 and is one of the bigger hotels. Portland is a small town and most buildings downtown go dark after 6pm, but hotels offer some nice lighting for night photography.

urban wildlife #2

On another note, we now have internet at the apartment, so I should be on the ball with posting daily.

Fence in focus

I-295 and the Maine Medical Center complex in background.

All Lit Up

City hall is lit up in red this month, in light of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

City Hall (remix)

I was playing around with an older shot of city hall that I posted long ago, here's the outcome. I like it.

Now that September has ended, here are the visitor statistics (statcounter.com) for the year thus far. It's interesting that I still had visitors over the few months that I didn't get to make any new posts. Looks like things are on their way back up to June levels! Also, I made $0.87 from google adsense in September.

Urban Hardware

From urbanhardware.com :

Urban Hardware is your independently owned downtown neighborhood hardware store. We stock over 2,700 products ranging from hand tools and paint supplies to
Kitchen gadgets, housewares and candles. Our focus is to serve the downtown
consumer by offering convenient hours and excellent service.

This blog endorses Urban Hardware, among other stores and political candidates.

USM Wishcamper Center

The Wishcamper Center on the University of Southern Maine - Portland campus is home to the Muskie School of Public Service, among other things I assume. It was recently opened and I think it turned out pretty well. Some neat facts about the building can be found here, such as:

-The building is heated and cooled by geo-thermal energy from wells drilled 1,500 ft. into the earth.
-Rain water is being collected off the roof and recycled.

Fall Colours

As spotted a few minutes ago from the USM library, a few leaves are changing from green to orange. Where did the summer go?


And here are some rain drops on the window.

$2200 / 2br - Upscale waterfront condos

Would you live here? I would move right in if I won this yesterday.

Buy a real Yard Follow Up

From the USM parking garage recently (I had some skyline shots but they didn't come out as clear and crisp as I wanted). For some interesting reads about this and other development in bayside, check out the Forecaster in print and online.

How strange that this post was linked to by two sources yesterday. PortlandPsst! send me plenty of visitors and linked to an article on the subject here. I'm not sure if they were being serious (or how they found my blog), but a person on a random forum linked to the picture from here and claims that it is their sister's truck. If I knew that more than 10 people were going to look at this photo I would have gone to the other side and got a nicely framed shot with the owner(s) out in front instead of taking a quick shot from across the road. Maybe next time!

Also, if you type "help me buy a real yard" into google, my post is the first search result. Score.

technicolour

Just playing with photoshop.

The wireless connection I was using at the apartment has vanished, and I swear I am getting my own internet soon (possibly Friday). Stay tuned.

Also, someone in a forum linked to the photo I posted a few days ago, of a pick-up truck with the 'help me buy a real yard' sign on it and plants growing in the bed. Thanks for the publicity!

Picnic

An unidentified band playing at last weekend's "Picnic music and arts festival" at Lincoln Park. It appeared to be quite a success with a lot of people present. I hope they make this (at least) an annual event.