I opened my recent University of Buffalo alumni magazine to find a set of stunning images by Buffalo resident Thomas Bittner. The photographs depict Buffalo’s cluster of Buffalo River grain elevators, also known as Silo City, in other-worldly winter scenes that put the lie to their common moniker, eyesores.

Bitner, a native of Germany, has lived in Buffalo since 2005. He has a refined photographers eye and has shown his work in galleries from Buffalo to Toronto to as far away as Seattle Washington. Bittner is a bit of a Renaissance man. Although, obviously a talented photographer, he is also associate professor of philosophy and geography at UB plus research scientist at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics. He has also published his images in a pair of books available on Blurb.com. There, you can get the printed versions for a fee but can also download the e-book versions at no cost! I don’t have to write too much for this story because the photos speak for themselves.

You can also see more of Mr. Bittner’s work here.