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Light Here in River City

Street Level Portland - An eye on the town, a foot on the ground

Quantum Theory: Particles of Portland Flow in Waves of Light

A Digital Picture Postcard from Portland Oregon

Oregon's Latest Slogan: You Have Got To Be Dreaming.

The Fine Art of Street Photography

Moving to Portland? What does Portland look like anyway?

A Journey through Stumptown in the Eye of the Mind

Logging the Photons of Urban Oregon

Missing Portland? Dedicated to everyone who misses or has ever missed Portland

Localized Cybernetic Visions of Community Building and Place Making

"I'm walking these streets ... and I don't lie awake at night. But every once in a while, right out of the blue, I remember you."

New Urbanism, I'd like you to meet the Old Urbanism and... oh look! There's Land Use Planning and Green Urban Design! Such a lovely couple... don't you just love a party?

Still looking for the best Portland look

Photo shoot in a rainstorm

Show me Portland!

Get real Portland, now showing here

I Sing the City Electric

Young creative... and looking for work

Portland Documented: The ebb and flow of metropolitan experience in documentary photographs

Place-based photo journalism direct from the surface of Planet Earth

Looking for a few good photos

See Portland before you travel

The appearance of Portland in space and time

I walk the streets of Portland so you don't have to.

Far away, and kinda likes it that way

A virtual perspective on the Portland village

Photograph Definition: A photograph is a shallow map of the play of light upon surface, a deep record of time, place and human experience, and a re-presentation of the familiar in a form that enables us to see our world in ways we might not otherwise have imagined. No really. I wouldn't just make that up.

Portland Oregon: Just a rusty old machine for turning coffee into life

Photoblog from a Western Town

Giving Portland my best shot

Rhapsodic views from an urban rainforest

A Man, a Camera, a Raincoat, Portland

Vision of Decay and Rebirth in a Pacific Northwest City

Portland Secret: We want you to think it rains here...

Visitor Guide: Seeing the Portland a Tourist Never Sees

Street Photography from the Heart

"The City That Works" - Portland's Official Motto, for what it is worth.

Living the Portland Life

Photos from the Local Life of Neighborhoods

"... grant dew and rain as a blessing." Jewish prayer

City of Neighborhoods

A Walk Between the Raindrops

Geo-localized mimetic documentary visual representations of cosmopolitan social infrastructural reality. HUH? You mean, like, snapshots of buildings, streets and people?

High tech meanderings through low technology streets by a medium technology guy

Portland from the ground up, all ground up

Walking around beneath a soggy sky

Reality? An interesting theory.

Beer food bikes and long hot summers

If this is a photo journal, am I a photojournalist?

A wedding of photography and Portland, a marriage of convenience and necessity, a celebration of the inevitable and the improbable

Events in Your Head Are Closer Than They Appear

A mind with a view

Virtual Tour Portland: A visitors' trail guide to walking environments and people

PDX Definition - University (PSU), airport (Portland International), urban environment

Landscape, cityscape, geoscape, mindscape, dreamscape, escape.

Digital reflections in a lens of ground glass

Portland: Image and Reality

"One little drop of falling rain, one little chance to try again, one little bird that makes it home now and then..." Gillian Welch

Webcasting 700 Horizontal Pixels of Portland Daily

Everyday Portland Life, Every Day

Portland Metro is the only elected regional government in America, and that plus $1.65 will buy you a fine cup of coffee in this town. (But it'll also get you a nice light rail system and a fine little zoo.)

Planet Portland to Planet Earth - Do you copy?

Seeking a visual sense of place

Nerdy Fact #17: Portland has a high rate of small business ownership and is a transportation hub and... Oh look! A donut shop! And a freight train!

Explore Portland - A virtual tour

"May the blessing of the rain be on you— the soft sweet rain." Irish proverb

Miles Hochstein is a Portland Oregon photographer and technical tinker who also works a straight job and raises his children beneath these Oregon skies.

Portland in a box... a little tiny box. Open the lid and peek inside.

Dear Searchbot, was it as good for you as it was for me?

Here's a list of the Portland neighborhoods, and a few nearby places, that are pictured on Portland Ground. (The number tells you how many images are in the local collection.)

Not that I'm counting too carefully, but I believe there are about 95 official Portland neighborhoods, and it looks like I've visited about 50 of them, plus a few neighboring places, towns and states of mind.

How do I decide where to go? I look at one of my maps and if the question "I wonder what that looks like?" comes to my mind, I head out to have a look. It's a big beautiful world, right here in River City.

Neighborhood, Place

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In short, I give you images to use and you give me links that bring visitors to Portland Ground. Everyone wins. That's the Creative Commons Deal (click here). Thank you in advance. Click here to read a fuller explanation of how to use an image from this site. I'm always happy to talk.

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Notes in the Margins of the Great Time Machine

"The river flows into the sea, and yet the sea is not filled."

We live our lives in the distant past of the distant future... if humanity has a distant future.

Right here, right now will be long ago and far away before too long.

How will future generations (should they cast their minds back to the early 21st century) imagine our lives, our choices, our cities, and our reality?

What would we choose to tell the people of the future, and would the messages and images we choose deserve any privillege over those we conveyed accidentally or sought to conceal?

Instructions for Time Travel - Step 1: Build a model of the present before it all slips away.

World of the future, these are the streets of my time, as they passed before my camera, long long ago.

First draft for a visual history of an era.

Behold these traces of memory from a time when the world was younger.

Featuring Old Stuff Before it Gets Old and New Stuff After it Gets Old

Also featuring obscure pithy quips that may make your head spin.

"There's gotta be a song left to sing, 'cause everybody can't have thought of everything. One little note that ain't been used, One little word ain't been abused a thousand times, In a thousand rhymes" Gillian Welch

Read the Portland Ground Guarantee: Not the best pictures of Portland Oregon... just the best seven pictures each week that one guy can come up with while working a 9 to 5 job and raising two children with his spouse.

Now where did I leave my glasses this time?