March 15th thru March 21st, 2010
Spring sprung this weekend in Western New York. A very welcome collection of nice days all this past week. I got my bike out and rode Saturday and Sunday. Short distances,( 8 miles Sat and 12 mile Sun) it's been way too long since I've ridden and there have been way too many cookies, candy bars, fish fries, french fries, eggs and bacon gone down into the old digestive system in the last months and years. I believe 2003 through 2006 I was in my best bike riding form. And it was hard then. Oh well, I'm getting back on the bike. I really like riding the bike. There will be more pictures from my bike rides this year. Spent time taking pictures Friday night in East Aurora. I like them but they are different than I normally do. East Aurora doesn't photograph like Buffalo.
March 8th thru March 14th, 2010
The annual St Patrick's Day Parade took place in downtown Buffalo today. This character was having fun. All the snow has melted. It has been raining, but warm. Spring is coming.
Go here to see more of the Buffalo St Pat's Parade...
http://www.mybuffalo.com/_St-Patricks-Day-Delaware-Parade/set/55145/85283.html
March 1st, 2010 thru March 7th, 2010
The snow has fallen all winter. Really for the last two months there has been consistant accumulation of new snow. This weekend it has just begun to warm up enough to cause some thaw. The sun was glorious and the early morning sun shinning through the icicles in this photograph is what caught my attention. Although the weekend was realtively warm this picture taken Saturday AM was taken with the thermometer at about 10 degrees F. It warmed up quickly. However, have still had a fire buring in the wood stove all weekend. My daughter, Erin, son in law and two grandchildren just returned to Portland (OR)from a week in Hawaii. Callie's birthday is Monday, Ben is skiing in Vermont and my other step daughter, Erin, remains pregnant.
February 15th thru February 21st, 2010
It has been white for weeks now. Although Buffalo has a reputation for snow, it is not always white from December to March, but for this year January and February have been relatively white. I like it. The sky was beautiful today, Sunday. First bright, sunny, non-office day I've experienced in a while. This photograph was taken yesterday, Saturday when the sky was just beginning to make way for the sunny day that was to become today. This photograph was taken along Lake Shore Road not far from Evangola State Park. I saw this scene while driving home from shooting, for Buffalo.com, a Winter Fest gathering at Evangola. The scene impressed me enough to cause me to pull off and into a little road side park, walk up a snow covered hill to a walk bridge over a little creek that feeds out into Lake Erie to shoot this. Fun. The results of photography are so rewarding in so many ways.
February 8th thru February 14th, 2010
This has been what I would call, a good winter. Not too much snow, but snow all the time, just enough to keep it white. They opened the toboggan runs at Chestnut Ridge Park this year after, I guess, insurance considerations had kept them closed for years. Anyone who has grown up in Western New York has memories of the times you , friends and family enjoyed the thrill of shooting down the toboggan chutes at Chestnut Ride. To see some pictures I took there Sunday, go to this link.
http://www.pbase.com/dhnieman/chestnut
It should be fun!
February 1st thru February 7th, 2010
A little hike down into Hunters Creek this afternoon before returning home to watch the New Orleans Saints win their first Superbowl. I was rooting for the Colts as I'm an AFC guy and I really like Payton Manning, but who could not be somewhat pleased to see New Orleans do so well.
January 25th thru January 31st, 2010
Within 30 minutes of arriving at Knox Farm State Park this morning, Sunday, January 25th, the crisp bright morning sunshine transformed into clouds with millions of soft white flakes of snow fluttering down. With the air at about 10 degrees (F), the snow lighted on my camera and remained on the cold black metal body so I could appreciate the crystalline structure of each flake.
January 18th thru January 24th, 2010
There is a little story on how I got this wind turbine shot, but I was someplace the signs said I should not have been, so I'll keep quiet for the time being. I took a series of them and when I got home noticed, as I was so concerned about getting to the turbine field, I left my camera on ISO 1600. With the lens I had with me and the light of the day , it was certainly the incorrect ISO setting for this (and the other shots) I took while sneaking around these huge turbines. They are close to 300 feet tall, cost 2.5 million a piece. They dwarf the forest trees behind them. They make a solid whoof, whoof, whoofing noise as they turn through the wind.
January 4th thru January 17th, 2010
The previous week's freezing cold and tons of fluffy snow melted away this week.
December 28th, 2009 thru January 3rd, 2010
It is a new year. The transition is complete. The snow continues.
December 7th thru December 27th 2009
What a wonderful Christmas we had; family and friends.
This shot was taken today, Sunday Dec 27th, the morning after an evening of slight freezing rain/wet snow. I am on Willardshire Road looking across the field to the barns on the Knox State Park in East Aurora. A beautiful winter morning.
With moving and Christmas and work,photography has just slowed down the last month or two. We'll pick it up here, now.
06-DEC-2009
November 30th thru December 6th, 2009
This is the main entrance to the East Aurora Union Free School District's Administrative Offices. My father went to high school in this building in 1941 through 1945 (68 - 64 years ago). This building is right on Main Street and North Grove Street in East Aurora, NY. I really like this town/village; it is my home. I am really pleased that I left my home for the adventures and experiences that I've had away from here, but it is so really good to feel like this is home. It's truly much more important than I ever realized.