A beautiful spring sunrise at the Buffalo History Museum. Despite the date of April 5, the temperature hovered around freezing and I still needed my photo gloves to fully enjoy the morning.

At first, shade and blue tones ruled over the scene. Later, as sun found its way over the horizon and the eastern cloud cover, its first rays hit the top of the museum roof, providing warmer tones. From there on, the look and feel was changing by the second. The light grew stronger, warmer, increasing the contrast and defining the textures of the building, and the branches of the foreground trees. The willow tree branches picked up more and more saturation, and the reds and greens of other trees also picked up additional sparkle. Then, just a few minutes later, the sun overpowered the scene.

The Buffalo History Museum was previously known as the Buffalo and Erie County Historical society; the name changed to the current Buffalo HIstory museum in 2012. Its building was built in 1901 for the Pan American Exposition. It was designed by Buffalo architect George Cary in the Grecian Temple style to resemble the Athens' Pantheon from the south.