Portland, Oregon, has to be my favorite city in all of the United States. With it’s abundant parks, funky little boutiques and second hand stores, Saturday market, art scene, First Thursday, the coffee houses, restaurants, award winning public transit system and rich nightlife, Portland is one of those places I just can’t grow tired of.
As the 24th largest city in the United States, Portland isn’t on the map as a metropolis, yet it lacks nothing of the color and character of any of America’s more well known cities. As a city Portland is like one of those cool bands that you want people to hear but you don’t want to see on MTV.
I could write a long post about the fun I had last week in this city, I could tell you about ‘First Thursday’ and the private art galleries that open late into the night, or the great sushi I ate, or the funky shops I wandered around on North West 23rd and 21st, and in the Hawthorne and Belmont district. Instead though I’ll forgo all that and allow my photographs taken last week to paint their own picture of this city as I see it.
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Explore Portland
PDX art scene
Saturday market
First Thursday
Brandy Kayzakian-Rowe’s jazz paintings
My little Portland
Portland
Homeless Angels
Long hours little pay
Wrote the following comment on Sep 10, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Beautiful pictures. I would never think to take the kind of pictures you do. You like reflection pictures don’t you ;)
Wrote the following comment on Sep 11, 2008 at 2:57 am
You take great pictures man. I want to know if Pedro got found.
Wrote the following comment on Sep 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Is that cyclist sign a real sign?
Wrote the following comment on Sep 12, 2008 at 5:32 am
Yes the sign is real. Portland is a great city for cyclist. A good portion of downtown workers bike to work (20-25% I heard)during the summer.
Wrote the following comment on Sep 12, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I do like taking reflection pictures Bella. There used to be a great site called ‘the mirror project’ where anyone could post pictures like that. Sadly it’s no longer around, but I have a ton of those kind of pictures which I’ll find a use for at some point.
As for Pedro the dog. Well I don’t know what happened to him or if he was ever found. Lets hope so.
And as Missy wrote, the yellow sign that shows the cyclist falling off his bike is indeed a genuine street sign. It’s up in the NW 23rd district where the streetcar has tracks embedded in the road which bike wheels can snag on. Portland’s public transit is second to none.
Wrote the following comment on Sep 16, 2008 at 7:25 am
Do they provide foam pits for the cyclists to do such stunts?
Stunts notwithstanding, this really looks like a city for you, Simon. Just the way you photograph it gives it away!