On 5/17/05, Alan P. Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > I've been going back to Buffalo to take pictures, revisiting my old > haunts after 25 years. It's not a bad place for photography. Lots of > great rundown architecture, though people are getting a bit thin on > the ground. <snip>
In all seriousness, I feel bad for Buffalo. Last year for GFM, I bussed from Toronto to Pittsburg to meet Mark Roberts. On the way back, I had a couple of hours to kill in downtown Buffalo at about 2:00 in the afternoon. I was right smack in the middle of downtown. Toronto downtown at that time of day is bustling - people in suits with briefcases zipping about, heavy traffic on the streets, couriers and delivery people clogging the sidewalks and roadways. I had just come from Pittsburg, and it was about the same as Toronto - a bustling, busy downtown core. Buffalo was dead. No one out and about. There were a few big office buildings, but no one was around them, no one going in and out. It's a dead or dying city. Sad, really. I guess the death of train travel killed them. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
