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- Something for Thursday November 6, 2025
- Thoughts on Taylor Swift (a vlog!) November 5, 2025
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- “I saw a UFO once….” November 2, 2025
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- “People get ready, there’s a train a-comin’….” November 1, 2025
- MASS HYSTERIA!!! October 31, 2025
- Something for Thursday (Oooooo! edition) October 30, 2025
- Tinkering under the hood…. October 30, 2025
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Category Archives: Photographic Documentation
When the Light is Low….
One area of photography I need to work on–well, I need to work onĀ all of them, but especially this one–is low-light photography. I’ve done some experimenting here and there, and my results haven’t been super-encouraging yet, at least, not until … Continue reading
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Impressions of Buffalo
From a walk I took last week, going from Buffalo’s Old First Ward to downtown and back. My original plan was to accompany The Wife into downtown for one of her days working at the office; I was going to … Continue reading
And now, some wisdom:
Beware the Candy Corn Fungus!!! Taken at the Charles Burchfield Art and Nature Center, West Seneca, NY. And apparently, believe it or not, it actually tastes like chicken!
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“In spider’s web a truth discerning”
Enlargeable version here. I took this photo last Sunday while walking around the Charles Burchfield Art and Nature Center in West Seneca, one of this region’s underknown gems. It was a stunning morning, because the fog had not yet lifted … Continue reading
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In our neighbors’ yard…
…there are frequently deer to be seen. That little one’s antlers are starting to come in!
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Street Photography: East Aurora, 9/17/2023
I’m finding myself more and more interested in street photography, or “streetscape”, as I prefer to call it. Here are a few examples from a walk I took last week around the village of East Aurora. I do hope someone … Continue reading
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In low light….
A photographic experiment, using the knickknacks on my desk.
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A metamorphosis, completed
You may remember me writing a few weeks ago about the Monarch butterfly caterpillar we found in the milkweed outside our front door, and its turning up again a few days later as a chrysalis clinging to the siding of … Continue reading
Amidst the goldenrod…
…a spider. Taken at Chestnut Ridge the other day. More from that hiking session here. (Life got better when I discovered (a) that macro photography exists, and (b) that my camera has a special macro-focus mode.)
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Remembrance
Taken November, 2015.
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