Buffalo Fashion Week 2013 Kicked Off with a press conference and the Black Swan Shoot in Niagara Square yesterday. Here are some scenes of the event!
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Nice One
Taken by my son Evan today. I can't believe he turns 11 this month....
Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival 2013 – Part 1
Shooting this weekend for Yelp at the Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival at Pilot...er, I mean, Dunn Ti... er... I mean Coke-a-Cola Field.
Yelp Elites Dance Their Socks Off
An off-beat Yelp event at The Rooster & Two Chicks in downtown Buffalo.
Of course, I was there to memorialize it with photos.
Waterfront
An afternoon at Buffalo's Naval and Military Park. Living museums on the water, now surrounded by development on and along the waterfront. Years ago these two ships stood alone. Now the area is full of life with events, festivals, restaurants - so many things to do!
Panama Rocks
On Friday I took the boys to Panama Rocks in Panama, NY. A natural rock garden that promises a day full of hiking and climbing.
A great place for the kids. The climbing can be challenging, but not overly difficult for the most part. However, for more experienced climbers, there are some better challenges.
Right On
Exactly.
I understand the government's desire to control what we do, how we act, who we interact with, what we do with our own bodies, etc. I get it. Controlling the populace, especially women, has been one of the main purposes of government since Grog discovered the secret to making and controlling fire, and then the tribe counsel enacted a law by two-thirds majority that fire was far too powerful for every individual to have and Grog was summarily executed for fear that he was conjuring evil spirits, and that is how his food got so tasty.
Or, at least that was what the counsel told everyone. Have they ever released the Grog Files?
No matter. Just because the government wants to control us doesn't mean they should, and what people do with their bodies, with the bodies of those they love, the drugs they might take, the raging rivers they might swim in... the chances they take, and the choices they make belong to each individual and to the individual alone.
As long as those choices and actions do not infringe upon anyone else's pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, no one should have a damn thing to say about them.
Be decent to each other, and be free.
Night Skies
Perhaps you know that this weekend is the peak of the Perseid Meteor Showers. Last night I... didn't really sleep. Just took a series of naps. I spent about an hour out on the back deck starring at the sky, and trying to catch a few streaks of light.
The funny thing is, being so close to the city the light pollution blots out most of the visible stars from your sight. However, with a long exposure, the camera can see a lot of what you can't. In the image above, I captured one meteor streaking across the sky. I didn't see it when it happened, it was too faint.
The other ironic part of this was most of the visible meteors I did see were to the north, right in the glow of the city, where I wasn't shooting.
In this one, right in the center of the frame you can see a streak that changed brightness. This was a satellite that I was tracking as it drifted across the sky. As these satellites travel, their brightness changes depending on the angle you see them at and how they are reflecting light.
As dawn approached I moved my focus point closer to the horizon to catch Venus rising. You can see how much the brightness of sky changes in the frame captured across just about 30 minutes of time from the last image to this one. In the upper right corner of the frame, a small meteor passed from the south to the north. I saw this one when it happened; it was bright enough against the early illumination of the Eastern horizon.
I looked at this picture more closely as I was posting this and noticed a dimmer streak just below the more obvious one. So I may have caught two in one shot.
I am disappointed I didn't see or capture any brilliant fire balls or larger meteors, but tonight is another night. If our moonless sky stays this clear, I might have a chance to catch more.