Portland, Maine Photos

[pvenne]

well, these are all very nice pics i took today (on the 7th) while i strolled around town for about two hours. i am terribly sorry for the size, but if you save them, they will look better when you open them from your desktop or "my pictures" folder. enjoy.

portlands newest sky walkway

east end high rise in distance

18-story back bay tower (from back side only)

17-story franklin towers (portlands tallest since the 60's)

a woman knitting on munjoy hill (maine med in background)

(back bay tower on the left)

munjoy hill, kennedy park, and the downtown

caught the jet plane in the upper part of pic

I-295 bisecting the city

[pvenne]

im very sorry for the size, i have no way of resizing them. if you save to your desktop and then view them, they are much more enjoyable. more on the way.

[pvenne]

these are the rest of them, i wasnt sure how many i could post at once.

a dame of pick up on the hill.

one of portlands two neglected high rises.

the other of portlands usually overlooked high rises.

fort "something" off of the east end...this must be calculated into our density too (damnit) LOL

scenic view off of the eastern promenade

eastern waterfront

south portland high rise on the waterfron tin background

portland harbor

south portland aprtments on the water

so. po. condos by the marina.

portland as seen from so po marina

[pvenne]

heres the last of them. i hope everyone is able to view these in their propper size by saving them...i truly apologize for the size...but some of them are great pics if you can actually see them in the right size format.

in the midst of everything urban, we find streets like this one...

ONE OF MY FAVORITES...YOU CAN SEE PORTLAND VERY LIGHTLY IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE TREES....BEAUTIFUL...FROM SOUTH PORTLAND...

downtown south portland...downtown portland seen in the distance.

on way under the bridge in so po

portland from across the water in so po under the bridge on the walkway

south portland box car

graffitti

[pvenne]

the building from before but from a distance

couple under the bridge by the water

[CoreyPortlandME]

Very nice! I see you found your way to the walkway under the bridge. All the shots from South Portland are really top-notch.

What's crazy is that we were out taking pictures on the same day, and apparently around the same time. B)

Give this a try for resizing...

http://bigwebpages.com/big/resize.html

Here's an example of what it will do at 50% of original size

^You can see the garage I was on in this shot

[pvenne]

yup, i had to check the ped walkway under the bridge out. so you were out again today? cant wait to see your new pics. haha. hilarious...i wonder if we passed or walked by eachother....what a small world it would be...

[pvenne]

well i managed to resize some of my favorites from the last oversized post....so heres to easy viewing. cheers...

can see portland in the distance through the trees from so po

thanks for viewing, and for your patience with the larger photos on the previous post. this is not a repeat of that post...more can be found on the earlier post, but they are so large that i figured i would post some of the better ones resized on this post for convenience...'

comments appreciated.

[M. Brown]

NiCe Dude. CoryP you need to be inspiring this dude more often. LOL

[pvenne]

THE FIRST BUILDING ON THIS POST (THE BROWN ONE): it is just under 150 feet high (about 13-14 floors). and it is shaped like an "L", with each half standing that high. i would have liked to see it built straight up and be like 26-28 stories tall. it would be the same space, just built up rather than out.....this would have saved a lot of that green space up there on the eastern prom too.

a lot of people always say portland cant support a big tall building liek this (over 25 stories) because of lack of demand. well here is a building that proves there is the demand, my question is: how many people would be opposed or for the idea i just put forth (building it straight up instead of like an "L")?

keep in mind it already looks really tall cause it is built on the highest point on the portland peninsula. also, UNUM provident has a really nice long office building hidden in the woods (for those of you who dont know what it looks like, ill post it below.....i would have liked to see this as a high rise down town...it would have been beautiful if someone just tilted it on its side.

thoughts? comments? agreements? disagreements?

[pvenne]

would have been perfect designed as a high rise and downtown rather than the woods, in my personal opinion, but this IS maine, afterall....

[pvenne]

comments appreciated.

[pvenne]

[pvenne]

the building in the second picture down kinda reminds me of hampshire plaza in manchester...which was built two years before 511 Congress Street.

another interesting fact i found out. usually "stories" are 10 feet...thus a 20-story building should be approximately 200feet tall....well hampshire plaza is 79 meters, which is 237 feet tall, meaning it is the better part of 24-"stories" even though it only has 20 "floors". thats why it looks so gigantic.

it is half as tall as 1 federal street and as tall as the metropolitan boston, both in boston.

1 federal street

the metropolitan boston (same height exactly--23 stories)

hampshire plaza

[BigCityAttitude]

Awesome, I like the residential tower first seen in the second pic and periodically through the your.

[CoreyPortlandME]

Very nice! I always like seeing things from new angles.

Congratulations on stumping me with this one...

[pvenne]

Very nice! I always like seeing things from new angles.

Congratulations on stumping me with this one...

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well i think i know why you might be stumped. it looks like there is a double decker bridge in fron tof the T&T building, or something that doesnt look like it should be there at least. in actuality, imagine yourself in the parking lot from which the second picture on this post was taken (so youre like standing parallell, but behind, congress street, in the back parking lot of the black glass building) and then look right to the left....there is a cumberland avenue parking garage there...sorta right to the right of the portland public market, and this is from where the pic was taken. if still confused lemme know and ill try and do a better job explaining it...i just got in and am a little tipsy, so i hope thi smakes sense....ahahh, i can always edit in teh morningg....

[M. Brown]

What are the letters on that building for. I thought it was suppose to tell the temp. Nice Pics btw.

[pvenne]

what the heck im still doing up?!!? anyways, the letter on that sign are cause it is the top of the local ABC affiliate station, WMTW are the stations call letters...the clock tower alternates between time, temp, and "WMTW"...for one pic i have seen, they programmed it to say something corny like "best city"...at least im pretty sure it was the T&T they did that to...im gonna bed ahhh

[pvenne]

does anyone else notice that back bay tower (red brick) looks like the leaning tower of piza, or is just me? maybe the way i held the cam? but doesnt look like that would be it. sh*t, it looks like its about to fall in two of them.

[shazbat73]

Pvenne your on a role! I like the pic of the Metropolitan in Boston, it's the best one I've seen yet....

[pvenne]

Pvenne your on a role! I like the pic of the Metropolitan in Boston, it's the best one I've seen yet....

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of thanks, i cant take credit for it though, unfortunately i didnt take it....its from the web...

[Cotuit]

I remember seeing the time and temp sign saying various different things when I lived there.

[pvenne]

well i finally climbed to the top of the franklin towers (actually the elevator helped me a bit) these were from the top floor.

top floor lobby

a look outside

the parking lot where lincoln center was supposed to be built and where portlands next high rise will likely go...best shot of a 20-story is in this parking-lot.

videos from the top of franklin arterial at a slow time of day (2:30)

vid1

vid2

[CoreyPortlandME]

Wooo nice work. Did you just go in and get in the elevator or did you get a pass or have to be escorted?

In a related matter,

When do you go off to college? All of the cool Portland forumers should have a forum meet and go on top of parking garages and tall buildings like Franklin Towers.