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The altar to St. Stan's RC church here in Buffalo.

7 shots (-3 to +3), Photomatix, CS4, Topaz Adjust.

Established in 1873, St. Stan's is the oldest Polish parish in Buffalo.

Buffalo Central Terminal

The Buffalo Central Terminal opened to the public on June 22, 1929 and closed in 1979. Built by the New York Central Railroad and designed by architects Alfred T. Fellheimer & Steward Wagner, the art deco style station was built to accommodate up to 3200 passengers per hour, or 200 trains per day. The complex consists of the main concourse, a 17 story office tower, a four story baggage building and two story mail building along Curtiss Street, and the now detached train concourse. The complex sits on a 17 acre site 2.5 miles east of downtown Buffalo.

After years of abandonment, it is in derelict condition, but is now owned by the non-profit preservation group Central Terminal Restoration Corporation.

Another shot of St Casimir's from earlier this year.

A construction worker does a little digging with a jackhammer in the newly remodeled Terrace Room at the Statler Hotel.

Photomatix
Three auto-bracketed shots in RAW (-2, 0, +2) converted to HDR and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro using Details Enhancer. Strength set to 90%, light smoothing set to medium, luminosity set to 2.5 and micro smoothing set to 2.5.

Photoshop
- Noise reduction with Topaz DeNoise
- Curves adjustment layer to lighten
- Curves layer for contrast
- Adjustments made for lens distortion
- Sharpened high pass filter at 2.3
- Topaz Adjust