Buffalo Main Lighthouse Metal Print

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Buffalo Main Light is a lighthouse at the mouth of Buffalo River/Erie canal, directly across from the Erie basin marina, in downtown Buffalo, New York.

The lighthouse was established and lit in 1833 and was deactivated in 1914. The foundation material was stone molehead and the lighthouse was constructed out of limestone and cast iron.

This 60-foot-tall (18 m), octagonal limestone structure is the oldest still standing in its original location in the city of Buffalo.

In my youth I would watch my dad in his makeshift darkroom developing photographs of the family. It seemed like magic when, in the red glow of the safelight, the image would appear from a blank piece of paper immersed in the developing tray. I was hooked. That was when I was still in high school, over 40 years ago. I have been taking pictures ever since. I attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a year and a half. At that time VCU didn't even offer photography as a course let alone a major so I ended up majoring in sculpture in order to do photography. If that sounds crazy, just remember it was the seventies. Any way I soon realized that college was not going to take me where I wanted to go. For the next 30 years I continued to...