In the “Toy Soldiers” display:
On the streets of East Aurora
A few weeks back I was able to spend an hour or so walking around the main drag of East Aurora on a Saturday evening (The Wife was out with friends! Can you believe that!). I was hoping for some nice street photography, but while the light was pleasant (overcast but it was getting dark by then), there weren’t many people about because aside from the restaurants, all the businesses were closed. I like doing streetscapes more when there are people around. There was action at the local hockey rink, but it wasn’t even hockey! They had a kid’s soccer thing going on there, so that was a bust.
I did get some nice things, though:
A few more in this album. It wasn’t the most productive night of shooting I’ve ever had, but I did like some of the results!
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Strange things are afoot at…
Bloody big ship!
Spring in the Woods (supposedly)
The other day I went to Chestnut Ridge on what was the first sunny Sunday morning in what felt like months. Of course, being a typical Western New York spring, it was a cold morning and nothing at all is growing up there yet. But nature is nature, and photography is photography!
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Unlimited Grocery Phone Tobacco Clothes
Sunrise over Caz Creek
Through a frosted window
Bloody big ship
When one artwork passes another
Not my best composition ever, I must admit…this is WAY too busy. We were sitting in a turn lane in Geneva, NY, waiting to turn left to go into downtown and visit a favorite breakfast place, and a train was rolling by. In Geneva the main rail line lies right between the downtown and US20, so sometimes you have to wait to enter the city. That’s totally fine! I love railroads and trains and I am firmly on Team MOAR TRAINS. What was pretty cool here is that my left-turn signal was obviously keyed to the railroad crossing, so I wasn’t tasked with turning into that little stub of street.
As for the photo itself, I wanted to capture the graffiti on that hopper car. I actually like graffiti tags a lot of time. Setting aside that it’s technically vandalism, there is often a ton of skill and artistry involved. I consider stuff like this “mobile public art”. In this case, I caught it (using Ophelia, my phone) as it was rolling past a big permanent mural on the back of one of Geneva’s buildings.
I really love the old train-towns of Upstate NY, the ones that grew along the rail lines that once provided the transportation infrastructure for the industries of the region. I hope they regain some of their former energy, someday.