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Sunday Septemeber 13, 2009 Friday I some how managed to get up at 5am.  If you know me that is a impressive because I am not a morning person.  Especially since this was 2 days in a row.  This morning I was once again determined to get some good pictures of the sunrise.  This morning [...]

Mt Hood with the city in the foreground Taken from the West Hills looking east 615am Mt. Hood is the tallest peak in Oregon and the 4th tallest in the Cascade range.  The volcano stands at 11249ft not 11239ft as is most often cited.  The mountain is less than 500,000 years old.  The last eruption [...]

Portland, Ore    Sunrise   6am US Bank Tower and Fox Tower US Bank Tower is the second tallest building in Portland at 536 feet.  Named after US bank  Corporation which was originally founded in Portland and latter bought out.  The headquarters were moved following the buyout.  It once had a restaurant Atwaters that was [...]

Hawthorne Bridge 7am The Hawthorne Bridge is a truss bridge with a vertical lift.  It is the oldest vertical truss bridge in the United States.  The bridge was completed in 1910 at a cost of $511,000.  The bridge was originally black and changed t0 yellow in the 60′s.  In 1998-99 the bridge went though a [...]

Shot of the old Portland visitors information center with the neon rose.  This is a historically significant mid century modern building.  It was designed by a prominent Portland architects John Yeon.  The original use was as a museum to find out about information about the city.  Recently the building was used as a restaurant call [...]

I layered this picture to get the moon to be so big.  It is two different shots one of the moon close up and one of the bridge.  This was taken in the morning and both picture were way under exposed because when the pictures are layered it significant lights the over all photo.  I [...]