Category Archives: On Buffalo and The 716

I like the Botanical Gardens at night because it feels like the set of an episode of STAR TREK.

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation | Tagged , | Comments Off on I like the Botanical Gardens at night because it feels like the set of an episode of STAR TREK.

“What Lake Erie can send her”

Also, I’m saving this for later as I’ve jut found it as I write this post: The Niagara Falls Poetry Project.

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photography: Nature | Tagged , , | Comments Off on “What Lake Erie can send her”

Here it comes! (A somewhat annual thought on snow and The 716)

As I write this, it is Sunday morning, 9 November 2025. Outside it is cold and cloudy and rainy, but according to the local weather predicting folk, that rain will be turning to snow later today, for our first actual … Continue reading

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716 | Tagged , | 1 Comment

“People get ready, there’s a train a-comin’….”

A few weeks ago I went down to the foot of Ohio Street in Buffalo, near its southern terminus at Fuhrmann Boulevard, near the Outer Harbor. My main purpose was to do some shooting of the amazing graffiti that adorns … Continue reading

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Olev

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photography: Streetscapes | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Blur

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation | Tagged , | Comments Off on Blur

Butterflies, Caterpillars, and the Bokeh Buddha

We have a mulch bed with a bush in it right outside our front door, and in recent years, milkweed has taken up residence there. Many folks would rip out the milkweed, but not us! We know it’s a haven … Continue reading

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation | Tagged , | Comments Off on Butterflies, Caterpillars, and the Bokeh Buddha

Towering

The other day I posted this shot to the Buffalo-centric Reddit, and it got some praise (yay!) as well as generating some discussion of Buffalo’s downtown and whether Buffalo is a beautiful city or not. I didn’t get too far … Continue reading

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716 | Tagged | Comments Off on Towering

Buffalo Streetscapes: Men at work

Last week I did one of my favorite things, on the last day of my August vacation: I went on a long photo walk in the city of Buffalo. I spent a chunk of that walk in downtown Buffalo proper, … Continue reading

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation, Photography: Streetscapes | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Buffalo Streetscapes: Men at work

One source of local inspiration

Here’s a video about a local photographer, Pat Cray, whose work I’ve been following for a year or so now, since I discovered it. He does Buffalo-centric street photography, which suits me perfectly: I love Buffalo, and I love street … Continue reading

Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Exploring Photography | Tagged , | Comments Off on One source of local inspiration