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This would be a cool story of me going the extra mile or 3 for a shot, but it turned out I was dumb. Okay, not dumb, just lacking info. The only high quality shot of The Martini I'd seen was taken from a high rise condo, so I thought it wasn't easily visible from downtown Portland. Since I couldn't get a location online I walked into the hills for hours, steep wet roads. I did find the house!
The Martini being lit up has been a sign of the impending holiday season in Portland since the 60s or 70s, the articles I've ready vary.
But right below the house is a terrible vantage point, and I got rain on my lens:
Actually, I kinda like the shot? Anyway, as I made my way back down to the flat bit of Portland with mass transit I was looking for better vantage points... and I realized that it's easily visible from a few blocks just south of PSU.
But, I walked some sections of Portland I don't normally walk and found this house clearly owned by vampires:
And here I'm writing vampires in Portland being dug into Alameda Ridge when they are clearly in the West Hills.
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Date: 2024-12-17 07:22 am (UTC)From:why not vampires in both the West Hills *and* Alameda?
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Date: 2024-12-17 05:28 pm (UTC)From:Well, the Alameda vampires are going to be a new addition, but clearly some have been in the hills for ages. I might need a better shot of that house with it's wrought iron gazebo. It's all very dramatic.
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Date: 2024-12-20 06:31 am (UTC)From:And the more distant one with the motel sign - having both neon signs (plus the blue Xmas lights) looks really cool.
That is obviously vampires.
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Date: 2024-12-20 10:19 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, I like the distant shot, but I am also proud of how clear the zoomy shot is. Most pictures I see of the martini are complete visual messes, which is part of why I thought it would be hard to find
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Date: 2024-12-21 04:57 am (UTC)From: