My Buffalo City Hall on Twitter!!

WOW! I got an e-mail the other day from someone who works at Buffalo's CBS affiliate, WIVB Channel 4. He was setting up a Twitter account for the station and wanted to use THIS photo of mine of the Buffalo City Hall (he found it here at my Angaza site by Google-ing!) for the background for their Twitter homepage. They couldn't pay me, but he was happy to credit me and to put my Angaza Photography website URL on the image.

So, please take a visit to https://twitter.com/news4buffalo to see my image!! He had to desaturate it a bit, and had to blur it a bit (the photo itself has so much detail that he said it detracted from the content of the page....) But I'm pleased. If you're from Buffalo (and, really, who else would be following WIVB on Twitter?) then you'll recognize City Hall easily. (I hope!)

SOoooooo, thanks to WIVB and special thanks to Tim for plugging my photography!!

PhotoBlogs ... and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY

What is a photoblog? You know what a "blog" is, right? A "web log" ... a sort of personal online journal. Well, a photoblog is a blog whose content is primarily photographic in nature. I suppose that this "photoblog" that I'm starting may end up being just a "blog" about photography. But I will try to refrain from typing too, too much. :-)

Therefore, getting to the "photo" part of this "photoblog", I want to tell you about a brief photo side trip that I took this afternoon. We had about a foot of snow last night (give or take a couple of inches), which meant that if I wanted snow photos I would need to get out soon before the snow got muddy and all stepped on. And, as is unusual for the Buffalo, New York area this time of year, we had a few hours of puffy, friendly clouds this afternoon. Perfect! I have been wanting to get downtown to shoot the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which is one of Buffalo's most wonderful examples of fabulous architecture that this city has to show off. It was built in the first few years of the 20th Century, and should evoke images of the Acropolis in Athens.

I love to shoot architecture and landscapes when there are puffy clouds in the sky. I use my wide lens, a 10-22mm zoom, set to the 10mm width. I try to get the horizon around 20% or 30% from the bottom of the frame, which gives a really unique look to the sky.

There are a few images from today's shoot in the gallery (see links at the top of this page), and I have a lot more in my files. If you'd like to see more, let me know.