12 posts tagged “architecture”

Here are a couple of photos from my New York trip.  Fist, a random street scape, and then a shot of the Armory (where the Print Fair was held):

We've been in Dubrovnik for the past couple of days.  Today we went up on the walls, which provided many excellent vantage points for photography.  Here is how Dubrovnik looks from above:

Yesterday we took the ferry over to Korcula, an old walled town on an island of the same name (and the birthplace of Marco Polo!).  We're probably going back today.  Here are a couple of photos from the town:

As I mentioned yesterday, we took a boat ride to Hvar, a lovely but touristy town on an island (also called Hvar).  Here are some photos from there:

We spent most of today boating, with a stop for lunch on the island of Hvar.  This is how the coastline looks: 

I'm taking a break from packing up my stuff to post a couple more brick pictures.  These ones seem quite ominous to me, and are of an enormous church on State Street.

Though Portland has a great many beautiful brick buildings, there are of course many that are far more prosaic.  This is one of them:

Ever felt the urge to jazz up your photos beyond a simple levels adjustment?  I know I have.  I don't have the know-how to do awesome effects in Photoshop Elements, though, and I don't have any of those cool novelty cameras (e.g. Lomo or Holga) that do them for you.  That's why I was so happy to learn about Picnik, a website that mimics their effects.  And it's free!  (Well, there is a "Premium" option with even MORE cool stuff, but the free part is certainly good enough for my purposes.)  Here's an example of what it does:

It's a photo of the Clapp House, the former MECA admissions building recently donated to the Portland Museum of Art (to which it is adjacent).  The original of this photo was very blue.  I altered it using a mix of Picnik's "1960's" and "Cross Process" functions.  In the future, I'll tag any Picnik-edited photos with "picnik."  If it doesn't have the tag, it was most likely edited in Photoshop, if at all.

My spring break was last week, and I (finally!) had the opportunity to make a trip back to Bennington.  I took LOTS of photos, including some from the train ride each way. (Tragically, I did not manage to get any images of the BISON FARM we passed by somewhere in rural New York.)
I'm going to start by posting some photos of the "New Houses," the three architecturally-acclaimed buildings that make up the upper half of third street.  Most of my friends now live in these houses, so I spent a lot of time in them while I was visiting... except for the third, Paris-Borden, which is one of the two on-campus residences I've never even entered.  That's out of eighteen, people.

No, not the movie (though it was excellent)... I mean the building material.  Boring ol' brick, in use for over nine thousand years.  Brick buildings became common in New England around the time of the Industrial Revolution, and the region still contains many beautiful old mills, factories, and warehouses.  Portland has an extremely high number of brick buildings, due to an 1866 fire that destroyed most of the city.  Here are a couple: