Kansas City Chiefs Logo
Football season is starting obviously, so the Kansas City Chiefs logo was painted (in a tasteful, symmetrical fashion, mind you) on the north lawn of Liberty Memorial in front of Pershing across from Union Station. Photo from the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Share
Kauffman Construction Again
While over on the lawn of the Convention Center Ballroom on Tuesday night getting telephoto shots of the Crossroads and Crown Center, I put on the wide angle and moved over a bit for yet another shot of the Kauffman Center construction and its cranes. I was on the radio show Up To Date with [...]
Union Station and Cloudiness
A nice, cool September day of cloud cover and a bit of free time in the afternoon, I thought it would be fun to go grab a couple shots. For this one I actually had in mind something black/white and high contrast along with the clouds before leaving my apartment. Sometimes that’ll happen. Wednesday, September [...]
Crossroads and Crown Center
Photo taken Tuesday evening, Sept. 7, 2010 a little after 8 pm. About three weeks ago I went to the south end of the Convention Center Ballroom and took this photo of the Kauffman Center construction, and noticed then a view toward Crown Center would be interesting too with the lighting at dusk, and my [...]
2010 Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition
I was asked to photograph this year’s Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition ( http://www.gkcbc.com/ ) at the Uptown Theater last night (Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010). Definitely a fun event to document, and as far as event photography goes, this type of thing is a lot more my style than stuff like weddings. A couple of [...]
Kat’s Retirement from the KCBT
A couple retirements happening at the Kansas City Board of Trade these days (my “official” place of employ). Kathleen, above, on her final day at the Kansas City Board of Trade as Vice President of Membership. I wanted to get a picture of Kat on the trading floor before I left for the day. I [...]
A Feedlot in Stafford County, Kansas
Monday, Aug. 23 at nightfall on my aunt and uncle’s farm out in southern Kansas, Stafford County to be precise. This is in the feedlot area with the moon coming up on the horizon. Back in April, hours before BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig famously blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, I took this [...]
Pastures outside of Preston, Kansas
Photo taken this past Sunday evening. I see here in August the moon rises at just the right time for a certain dramatic effect. I was in Preston, Kansas, a tiny, and regrettably foundering town of which I have some ties to. I stop there every once in a while when I’m visiting my grandmother [...]
Stafford Train Depot
The old unused train station/depot in Stafford Kansas, this past Saturday evening, 08/21/10. Maybe old unused depots are cliche subject matter, but whatever. This one has the red glow of the exit sign inside showing through the windows. I was out there in southern Kansas for a long weekend. Share
Photowalk at the Union Station Pedestrian Bridge
Back on July 24th was the Worldwide Photowalk Day – there were two in Kansas City, one in the morning and one in the evening starting in the Crossroads area. I took this one around the beginning of the evening, looking westward with some geometries of part of the pedestrian bridge across the train tracks. [...]
Kansas City Nuclear Parts Plant Protest
A large protest Monday morning descended on the empty construction site for the planned Kansas City nuclear plant facility that is set to replace the old Bannister complex. Protestors met at the road entrance on Missouri Highway 150 near Botts Road in south Kansas City, then made way through the site and impeded construction machinery. [...]
John Paul Garcia
For as much as this photoblog and my own collection of pictures are KC-centric in one way or another, it’s logical not just to illustrate only the up-to-date seven story buildings and whatever other pleasantries reside here – there’s also the abnormally high murder rate per capita that the urban core of KCMO has to [...]
The Monahan Brothers
I went and photographed a gathering at Mill Creek Park on the Plaza on Monday, this one concerning last January’s Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in that, in what I imagine must have to be a pile of legalese and mumbo-jumbo, it was ruled to expand the legal definition of a [...]
The Abdiana Sign
The Abdiana Sign at about 20th and Grand, photo taken on the evening of July 24th during the Worldwide Photowalk. Share
Missouri Proposition C
A Kansas City Star article can cover the details of Missouri Proposition C. Groups both for and against the law concerning the recent health care reform bill protested at the same time, yesterday at 5 in Mill Creek Park/Nichols Fountain on the Plaza. Six photos – 07/29/10 Share
Lines behind Union Station
A shot from early on in the Worldwide Photowalk on Sat. July 24th. We’d started at the Freighthouse went from there, with this taken from Main between Pershing and 20th. Share
Kauffman Center Rising
The Kauffman Center’s ongoing construction as seen from about Pershing and Broadway on July 16, 2010. In other news I’m without my wide angle lens for the time being as it somehow mysteriously acquired a zoom ring problem, and I’ve had to ship the lens to Canon. It would be nice if I hadn’t sold [...]
The cab business in Kansas City and Beyond
I read a few weeks ago that Ford will be completely discontinuing production of the Crown Victoria, the staple of cabs and police cars, next year. By that, I might grab a few extra police car and taxi cab photographs as I go, while the current new and late model fleet vehicles age and are [...]
The Western Auto Sign
On Saturday evening I took part in one of two Kansas City photowalks organized under the Third Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk, this past Saturday the 24th. Our walk started near the Freighthouse and wove around the Crossroads area, scheduled between 6 and 8 pm. Right at the end the best lighting hit in tandem [...]
Downtown Skywall
From two Friday nights ago on Broadway west of Union Station, the view of the skyline via the telephoto effect at 365 mm of focal length. Share
Kauffman Center Geometry
Earlier on Friday I noticed at Truman Road somewhere between Grand and Main it would be fun to try a shot of the Kauffman Center with the sunset going down somewhere behind it. Share
Cosby Hotel Demolition Reprieve
The 1881 Cosby Hotel – In the local media lately for being saved from demolition at the last minute when it was determined at the pressure of local historic preservationist Adam Jones to leave the building intact. There were conflicting structural reports, but a third one managed to be ordered, confirming that the cost of [...]
Old Downtown KC
While taking a Kauffman Center photo from Truman Road on Saturday evening, I noticed I like this view too – all that’s good about the old buildings in KC, the first and second (AMC Mainstreet Theatre and Hotel President) were saved from near demolition. I aimed for kind of a film noir look with this [...]
The Changing Skyline
Keeping an eye out for new angles on the Kauffman Center building, I stopped again along Broadway west of Union Station on Friday evening and came away with several shots. Share