The Buffalo Youth Media Institute, or, where did the last three months just go? Back in 2013 I was hired to design and implement a summer film making project for…
Part of what attracted me to both photography and urban exploration was the idea of capturing bits of what used to be. The German-Roman orphanage on the East Side was…
These photos were all taken with my trusty old Powershot G2. Old as in it’s from 2001. When we first set foot inside the Dussault Foundry in Lockport we had…
Grain elevators have become popular in Buffalo in the past few years. Most of us around here have probably heard of art shows and history tours that run through Silo…
No text this time, instead a video with narration. I know there’s like two minutes of nothing after the video ends, it’s not in the original video, so I guess…
Nature can retake man made structures and spaces very quickly. In the span a few short years sites can be buried and overgrown enough that no one remembers it was…
In front of you is this early 20th century brick hospital complex. You don’t see anyone around but there’s a problem. The entire property is surrounded by a fence. You…
(All pictures are screen grabs from a video made on ZR900) Over on the East Side of Buffalo, close to the Science Museum and the former site of the Orphanage,…
Continuing on from the last post, I’ll start with pants. Most people I know who go out exploring will just wear jeans, and usually that’s fine. If it’s warm, and…
I really like the Dead Space series. The atmosphere, tension and the unique combat along with the creepy cult overtones. I especially like the not-so-subtle jabs at Scientology but that’s…
In my last post, I mentioned frame backpacks and it got me thinking about how I’ve never quite gone over what to use and wear while out exploring. Many people…
So you’ve read all the previous posts, thought long and hard about what sort of frame backpack and asbestos mask to buy, and are ready to go out and photograph…
I know I generally write about ruins and photography but I decided I’d branch out a bit, stretch my blogosphere legs as it were. I follow a few video makers…
Alfred State was where I started my college education and I consider it a very expensive lesson in caveat emptor. I have no interest in boring anyone with the details…
Flintkote was a paper mill (later they made roofing shingles) in Lockport, NY that left behind an awful legacy. It was labelled as one of the most toxic locations in…
I thought about doing one of those ‘best of’ lists for 2012, you know the sort. Then New Years passed by and I was still thinking about whether or not…
Assassin’s Creed is a historical action game series set around a conflict between two groups called the Templars and the Assassins. You can probably guess which side the player character…
(All the photos taken in this blog are by two of my fellow club members and not by myself.) Sometime in the spring of 2002 there was a fire that…
What seems like a very long time ago, an era in which Arrested Development had only been cancelled for a year, I took my first foray into urban exploration. My…
Sometimes the best sites come to us by accident. One cold, dead, winter day my friend asked me to go with him on a trip down Route 5 to take…
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