I got called off of work yesterday, so, my camera and I went out in search of waves and to capture the effects of the winds. I started out going to Hamburg Beach, where it was really cool, but, the sand was pelting my car, and I thought this would not be good for my camera or my lenses!! so I drove on. I think the best place was the Outer Harbor of Buffalo. The Winds got progressively stronger throughout the day.
This Video is from the Outer Harbor, Crazy Waves. I usually Kayak around here, I think I'd get thrown out of my Kayak...!!!!
I went around the Outer Harbor taking pictures
In front of the break wall you can see the Ice Boom. I wonder if it broke loose yesterday because of the winds. The Ice boom was not needed in the Lake this year, It didn't freeze. Not like years prior at least. This may bring us an early spring!
The winds were so strong I had to dig my foot into the ground in front of me. The wind still blew me around a bit. And I'm not a small person.
this is by the wind sculptures at the Outer Harbor. It was so windy, I went to the top of the hill and put my back up against one of the sculptures to keep me in place, then I had a thought, "what if one of the wind sculptures breaks loose because of the wind! OMGosh... " After that thought, I stepped away from the wind sculptures!
As I was leaving the Outer Harbor, they closed off the Sky Way to all traffic because of the wind. Great, now I'm going to have to figure out the back roads to get back to the Outer Harbor.
I went to "my Spot" and there was another photographer there from the Buffalo News. "Hey, this is my secrete spot!" anyway.. There was another guy taking photo's further up from us. I think he was also trying to get pictures of waves.
I started heading back to the Outer Harbor since it was starting to get close to sunset.
Yup, I took the back roads into the Harbor since the roads heading to the Sky Way were still blocked off. As I park my car, I have learned that I have to park so that I can get in and out of my car without the wind blowing my door off, so I park accordingly.
As I walk up to lake, I am stunned by the beauty of the sunset, it brought me back to Norway where I was also brought to tears from the beauty of the sunset
I was not the only crazy one trying to get pictures of this amazing sunset with the wild winds.
What an amazing day out in the wind taking pictures. The powerful winds were recorded in Hamburg, NY at 75MPH wind gusts. That's just crazy. The strange thing about yesterday's storm, was that it was sunny and beautiful out. The temperatures were in the mid 40's which made it nice out for taking pictures, I had my wind pants on later in the day helping with the wind chill. But, over all it was a beautiful day, just super windy!
I was in Awe over the power of the wind whipping through Lake Erie. It was incredible. Many people were driving around checking out the waves caused by the winds. Not many got out of their cars to get a close up look. For me it was invigorating and powerful! Just try to keep me away!
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