Downtown Portsmouth, is a center of activity with art galleries, bookstores, antique shops, ethnic restaurants and many original 17th-century buildings. Portsmouth is a city in the state of New Hampshire. A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination on the Piscataqua River bordering the state of Maine. Portsmouth shipbuilding history has had a long symbiotic relationship with Kittery, Maine, across the Piscataqua River. In 1781–1782, the naval hero John Paul Jones lived in Portsmouth while he supervised construction of his ship Ranger, which was built on nearby Badger's Island in Kittery. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was established in 1800 during the administration of President John Adams, and is the U.S. Navy's oldest continuously operating shipyard. It sits on a cluster of conjoined islands called Seavey's Island in the Piscataqua River, whose swift tidal current prevents ice from blocking navigation to the Atlantic Ocean.—Wikipedia
Old Orchard Beach is a town in York County, Maine. It is part of the Portland−South Portland−Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Area. Located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, the town is a popular summer beach destination. The downtown contains many tourist-oriented businesses, including clam shacks and T-shirt shops. A wooden pier on the beach contains many other tourist businesses, including a variety of souvenir shops. The seven mile long beach stretching away from the downtown is lined with many beach residential properties, condominiums, motels and bed and breakfasts.—Wikipedia—This image was processed as an HDR (High Dynamic Range) composition.
