Welcome to "The 2025 Calendar - A Year of Images and Stories." Throughout the year, this page will be updated monthly with a new story about the photo featured in the respective month of the Tom Burns Photography 2025 Calendar. 

In the story about last month’s image, I wrote about my love of nighttime/low light photography, and last month’s image featured an illuminated Marcy Casino at Delaware Park.

Well, being honest about the May image of the AKG Art Gallery, this image was taken on the same night. Actually, they were taken 10 minutes and 10 seconds apart, and the images are chronologically correct – I did take the Marcy image first.

In addition to my fondness for low light/nighttime photography, I particularly like shooting during blue hour, which happens roughly from 15-60 minutes after the sun sets. During this period, the sky maintains some of the light from the sun, before turning to dark blue and black. The AKG image demonstrates the blue hour effect.

Last month’s post also included my fascination about the movement of people and lights, and the AKG image includes the tail lights of an automobile passing by.

The addition to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now the AKG) is a cool looking piece of architecture. Its nightly illumination is also a personal draw for me, and I captured a new image late last month while trying to get images of the Cherry Blossoms at the Buffalo History Museum.

While I haven’t had the chance to visit the AKG, I have heard wonderful reviews, and it will be on my list in the coming months.

I hope you enjoy the May image, and I promise, it is the last image featured in this calendar that was taken on May 13 last year.

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