Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Four Photos

Here ar a few shots from my wanderings around downtown Buffalo, NY. Above are some flowers in McKinley Square, with the base of the McKinley Monument and City in the background.

This is the lobby of the Market Arcade (home of the CEPA Photography Gallery among other things), a very cool building from the 1890s that is something of a prototype for modern malls, though on a much smaller scale.

The Electric Tower is one of the distinctive buildings in downtown Buffalo, site of the annual local New Year's Ball Drop. Someone told me that it was the last place in the city to employ full-time elevator operators to take you to the upper floors, but that was a few years ago, and I kind of doubt it's still true. This was taken from the observation deck atop City Hall.

One of my favorite places to take pictures is the Erie Basin Marina, and above you see the lighthouse across the channel from where the boats are docked.

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