Motorcycle rides · Finger Lakes, New York
Highway Howie is the riding channel of photographer Howie McLaughlin — reflective motorcycle journeys through New York's Finger Lakes, and the photographs those miles leave behind.
The channel
Long rides for the full journey — and Shorts built for the loop, where the road keeps moving while a single line settles in.
Full journeys on two wheels: lake roads, ridge lines, small towns, and the quiet stretches in between. Shot from the saddle around a home base in Ovid, NY — the Finger Lakes as they actually look at riding speed, in every season the weather allows.
Watch on YouTube →One quip — ponder-worthy, hard-hitting, or just funny — set over the best fifteen seconds of road, scored with music by Ed Iseley. The clip loops while you read. Then it reads differently.
Short · 0:15 · Loops
Home ground
Almost everything here is filmed and photographed within a short ride of Ovid — a home base in the center of the lakes, with a different loop out the door every day of the week.
The deep one — shoreline roads, vineyard climbs, and sunset runs down the west side toward Watkins Glen.
The long one — forty miles of water, college towns, and farm roads rolling off the east shore.
The crooked one — the Y-shaped lake, bluff roads, and some of the best vineyard views in the region.
Stone staircases, hemlock shade, and tiered waterfalls — the walks taken when the bike is parked.
Barns, twin silos, rusty pickups in wildflower meadows — rural Americana, still working, still standing.
The art
The launch gallery — eight photographs, chosen ruthlessly from the whole catalog. Printed, framed, and shipped by Fine Art America; every image below is the actual photograph.
The strongest frame in the catalog — twin silver-domed silos over a red barn, caught at the exact minute the sky turned.
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A working truck at rest in purple asters and goldenrod — farmhouse-decor ready, story included at no extra charge.
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Sunlit limestone ledges and a plunge pool in full autumn color — the Finger Lakes gorge trail at its best.
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CCC-era stone steps climbing a hemlock gorge — the path every hiker in the region knows by heart.
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Golden hour on still water, a pavilion in silhouette — the Finger Lakes evening, exactly as it feels.
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Rare red pillars from the great October 2024 geomagnetic storm, over an ordinary country treeline.
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A dog-day cicada, glassy wings and all, holding still for a macro portrait in the garden.
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A farm cat loafing on a gnarled branch, looking straight down the lens while the sunset rakes in behind.
Buy this print →The gallery grows as new work earns its place — follow new additions on Pinterest, where every print is pinned the day it joins.
For buyers & brands
The same eye that makes the prints licenses photography and footage to productions, publishers, and businesses — 100+ pieces already approved across the major stock libraries, with new drops twice a week.
Riding footage, Finger Lakes landscapes, rural Americana, waterfalls, night skies, and small-wonder macro work — shot on a lightweight everyday kit, delivered clean and cataloged.
Need a specific Finger Lakes scene shot to order? Commissioned shoots start with an email — highwayhowie@gmail.com.
The rider
Howie McLaughlin is a photographer and videographer based in Ovid, New York — dead center of the Finger Lakes. He works behind the camera, not in front of it: a lightweight kit, a motorcycle, and a home territory he knows road by road.
The channels come and go; the creator remains. Everything Howie makes — the Highway Howie rides, the stock library, the prints — is published under his own name, and this site is where all of it comes home. The Shorts are scored by musician Ed Iseley, whose songs appear with his permission.
Off the bike, he's also the name behind Beebox Comics — but that's another road, over at beeboxcomics.com.
Good questions
Ovid, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes. Most rides and photographs are made within a short drive of home — Seneca and Cayuga lake country, gorge trails, vineyard roads, and farm country.
Yes. The library is on Pond5 and Adobe Stock under Howie McLaughlin, and direct licensing for local businesses and productions is available by email at highwayhowie@gmail.com.
Through the Fine Art America gallery — all eight launch prints, with paper, canvas, framing, and sizes handled at checkout. New prints join the gallery as they're earned, and each one is pinned on Pinterest the same day.
Ed Iseley. His songs score the 15-second Shorts, used with his permission.
Yes — Finger Lakes riders especially. Send the road, the town, or the overlook to highwayhowie@gmail.com. The best suggestions become rides.
Everywhere it lives
One creator, four storefronts. Pick your road.