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During our first visit to Buffalo State we got very lucky. Naturally, after the tour ended I was asking about getting more time to photograph (which I would be more than happy to pay for), etc. Christine, the absolutely fantastic person in charge of operations at the Richardson Olmsted Complex indicated that I would really…
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Construction on the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane began in 1872 with the hospital opening in 1880. The architect was Henry Hobson Richardson who designed many well known buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston and the Thomas Crane Memorial Library on Harvard’s campus. The landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed central park.…
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Built in 1855 Point Bonita Lighthouse sits in the Marin Headlands near San Francisco, CA. The light is only open during limited hours and weather can be a limiting factor as well. I had made several attempts to visit during previous trips to CA and had been thwarted each time. Coming out of the tunnel…
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So. Obviously, or maybe not that obviously because I am so bad about getting stuff online, I shoot a ton of panoramas now. It’s the main thing I like to shoot, and when I travel most of my exploring is aimed at getting panos. I had been shooting single row using an RRS Ball Head…
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Out in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco is the Nike Missile Site Museum. I had been meaning to visit the museum and Point Bonita Lighthouse during several previous trips but weather and limited hours kept getting in the way. The Marin Headlands are a mandatory stop whenever I am in San Francisco. Project…
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It was January 2013 and I was taking a week off in between jobs. I decided to take a solo road trip with no real plan…which is pretty unusual for me. My career was going well and I was a lot more worried about getting caught exploring than I had been previously. There were, however,…
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