Since arriving in the Rose City Monday night, it has been pouring down. It has been cold and miserable. There is nothing but grey outside the office windows. No chance to grab the camera and go out and shoot some street photography. At least we were spared the snow-induced chaos that has hit the Seattle area and the Columbia River Gorge just East of Portland and led to massive travel problems. Colleagues that booked flights via Seattle did not make it to PDX due to cancellations. I instead had booked a “Southern arrival route”, flying to Portland via Zurich and San Francisco, thus avoiding any weather induced problems.
But as the Portlandians are pretty used to those wet and grey days (a.k.a. “Oregon Liquid Sunshine”), they provide ample opportunities for adequate color therapy. Like going indoor miniature golfing in a colorful blacklighted pirate arena (the course with apple 13 holes!) or the famous Voodoo Doughnuts (“good things come in pink”). Those doughnuts are modeled after really creepy things, but taste perfectly wonderful like doughnuts.
Both things we enjoyed as part of a team event during a two-day workshop in our Portland office. The first opportunity for some quick on-the-fly street photography. The forecast for my remaining week here in the Rose City calls for 7 days of rain, including the weekend. That will most likely also prevent me from a trip to the beautiful Oregon Coast. Probably I will spend the weekend doing street photography on the rainy streets of Portland. And I might need to hunt for more color therapy.
Images taken with my iPhone 8.
Have a great Wednesday!
Marcus
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That rainy forecast must have been so disappointing, but at least you enjoyed some great art and Voodoo doughnuts. Just keep reminding yourself that spring is just around the corner 🙂
Spring is outside my office window, in fact :-)! Thanks for taking the time to comment, Marsi! Marcus
I love street art 😊
🙂 Thanks so much for taking the time to comment! Marcus
It’s been raining for days here. Maybe I need to seek out some color therapy! 🙂 Great shots Marcus!
Thanks, Amy! Send some sunshine your way, we had awesome days of early spring! Can’t wait, I’m sick of all this rain and snow! Marcus
That IS awesome colour.. 😉
That mini golf black-light is right out of the 60’s & 70’s! Nice pics. (our daughter and family live in Seattle and went through the snow mess)
Hyper-saturated mini-golf… pretty weird… but then, it’s Portland and they do weird at a professional level.
“Color therapy.” What a great idea, Marcus — and what great results your “therapy” yielded too. 🙂
Maybe you’;ll get a sunbreak or two? We had sun yesterday, but now we’re back to overcast skies and rain later on. The miniature golf actually sounds like a lot of fun, and I like your processing, given the circumstances! Praying for sun….
I have always heard so much about Voodoo Donuts–are they that good?!
They taste much better than they look 🙂 Digging the teeth in a donut looking like a bacon sandwich and then getting the sweet taste is quite an experience. Love them!
Such a cool place, I wonder how do they make things like this…
Thanks, for commenting, Dean, much appreciated! Marcus