A few shots I took on June 23 from Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park at 12th & Walnut in downtown Kansas Ciy MO –

11th and Walnut

11th and Walnut

Downtown Kansas City

11th and Walnut

11th and Walnut

Downtown Kansas City

11th and Walnut

Downtown Kansas City

I don’t know what else to call this. I have a hoard of about a hundred shots from the last several weeks I’ve accumulated.

 

At 13th & Main:

Midland Theater

13th & Main

Downtown Kansas City

Midland Theater

KCMO 13th & Main Downtown

Down Main Street

Power and Light Building

13th & Main

Downtown Kansas City

KCMO 13th & Main Downtown

 

One on the Plaza:

Country Club Plaza

 

Back to 13th & Main again:

Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

 

12th & Walnut:

 

 

Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

 

Truman Rd & Walnut by the highway:

Kansas City highways

Downtown Kansas City

From time to time I take care of the photo work for political campaigns. On Thursday evening I shot some pics at a fundraiser for Tony Miller’s campaign for a seat on the Jackson County Legislature. 6/6/13, Kansas City, Missouri. Tony’s campaign website: https://www.electtonymiller.com

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A few pics underneath the elevated portion of I-35 just a bit north of Southwest Boulevard in the Westside area of Kansas City, Missouri. Thursday, May 16. Kansas City has always LOVED relying on its highways for everything – and I hear they need some work done. Have a happy summer getting around!

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

I-35 undergoing repairs

Bunch of stuff from 2013 I haven’t put up on here yet.

 

Skyline, Kansas City, MO.

 

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

 

 

Misc. downtown KCMO.

 

Downtown Kansas City MO

Kansas City Bus Motion Blur

Kansas City Bus Motion Blur

 

 

 

Chateau du Mercier.

 

Mercier

Mercier

 

 

 

Kansas City Board of Trade – marketplace for futures and options contracts on hard red winter wheat. Kansas City’s oldest business dating back to 1856, the KCBT exchange was acquired in December 2012 by Chicago’s CME Group for $126 million. I have worked at the KCBT for over six years, the last three on the trading floor. Trading volume on the exchange’s electronically traded platform is steadily risen year after year, siphoning away volume from the “old fashioned ” open outcry futures trading pit.

 

The KC Wheat futures and options contracts will begin open outcry trading on one of the CME’s trading floors in Chicago on July 1st, 2013 – as the last day of open outcry trading at the KCBT will be June 28.

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Kansas CIty Board of Trade

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Shawnee Mission Medical Center – Birth Center maternal care addition – interior architecture photos. Maybe one day I’ll get around to some of the exteriors.

 

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More KCMO Skyline, and a bit wit the Scout Statue.

 

Downtown Kansas City Skyline

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Water and sewer photos – starting with the KC Waterworks water treatment facility.

 

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At the KC Water Department storage facility, a lot of new infrastructure like sewer and water pipes, fire hydrants and all kinds of other things to be implemented in KC this year.

 

Kansas City Sewer Overhaul

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Out on site – fixin’ the sewers.

 

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Kauffman Center in springtime snow, Kansas City MO – Monday 3/25/13 – even though I already have probably a thousand photos involving the Kauffman Center, I had about none with snow, and someone has expressed interest in licensing some snow/KPAC pics, so I grabbed a few in case.

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kansas City Skyline

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kansas City Snow

Kansas City Convention Center

Kansas City Convention Center

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kansas City Snow

Kansas City Skyline

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Kauffman Center in the Snow

Along Roanoke, West Plaza.

Kansas City Snow

 

Snowman.

 

Snowman

 

Residential.

 

Kansas City Snow

 

Deadly Intersection.

Kansas City Intersection

 

Residential & Plaza Vista

 

Kansas City Snow

 

 

Ward Parkway & Roanoke.

 

Kansas City Snow

Kansas City Snow

Kansas City Snow

Kansas City Snow

 

Site of JJ’s, where a gas explosion destroyed the restaurant recently.

 

Restaurant formerly known as JJ's

Restaurant formerly known as JJ's

 

Prepping to go on air for Channel 9, Michael Mahoney and Lasaro Abalos (@heycameraman).

 

Channel 9

 

Staircase along Belleview.

 

Staircase

 

Roanoke & Belleview.

Kansas City Snow

Photos from Saturday evening January 5, 2013 with just my fisheye lens (Canon EF 15 MM) on my Canon 5D II, between 11th and 12th Streets, Baltimore and Main. I would have gotten more shots in but was confronted with a flat tire upon heading out for the shots so I missed some of the good light.

Kansas City Downtown Fisheye

Kansas City Downtown Fisheye

Kansas City Downtown Fisheye

Kansas City Downtown Fisheye

Kansas City Downtown Fisheye

All shots from Sunday Dec 30 in the afternoon – stopping at Wornall Baptist Church Brookside for shots of the crosses for the KCMO homicide victims this year – triple digits for 2012. There were additional crosses in memorial for the Newtown, Connecticut massacre as well.

Then after than a few shots from Loose Park looking toward the South Plaza residential buildings peeking over the trees in the Park.

Wornall Road Baptist Church

Wornall Road Baptist Church

Crosses for murder victims

Crosses for murder victims

Crosses for murder victims

Crosses for murder victims

Crosses for murder victims

Crosses for murder victims

Wornall Road Baptist Church

Meyer and Wornall, KCMO

Meyer Blvd

Crosses for murder victims

Street scene

Loose Park

South Plaza Residential Buildings

South Plaza Residential Buildings

South Plaza Residential Buildings

South Plaza Residential Buildings

South Plaza Residential Buildings

South Plaza Residential Buildings

South Plaza Residential Buildings

Kansas City Union Station – on the outside with red light projected onto the building, and decorations on the interior. Sunday Dec. 16, 2012.

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Union Station

Union Station

Union Station

Union Station Interior

Union Station Interior

Union Station Interior

Union Station Interior

Union Station Interior

Union Station Interior

Here we have a couple shots from near the gates to the driveway at Liberty Memorial, a couple closer up from along the sidewalk looking toward the skyline and past the Memorial with my long telephoto lens, then off to the side where I climbed up to a spot I’ve gone to three or four times now without being told by any security staff to get down. This spot allows for a slightly atypical view than the usual scene from directly north of the Memorial base – and from here you can practically make the Kauffman Center sit right behind Union Station in the photo.

Penn Valley Park

Downtown Kansas City

Kansas City Skyline

Kansas City Skyline

Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

 

Photos around the River Market area of Kansas City and in the area of Independence Avenue and Wyandotte Street – December 1, 2012.

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River Market - Kansas City

River Market - Kansas City

River Market - Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

River Market - Kansas City

River Market Fisheye

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Downtown Kansas City

Downtown Kansas City

More shots of the new KCPD South Patrol and Traffic Division main building. The parking lot was kept clear, and it was Thanksgiving evening anyway.

Sunday afternoon in Kansas City MO near Nichols Fountain on the Plaza – protest of Israeli military assaults on Gaza.

A couple of contacts with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department asked if I would take a few shots of the new South Patrol and Traffic Division building and site at 9701 Marion Park Drive just off of Bannister Road and 71 Highway, so I nabbed this around sunset on Wednesday, November 14.

Seven pics from the Waterfire event on Saturday October 27th in Kansas City.

Foliage and tree photos along Cliff Drive Tuesday evening. I’ve noticed a few fall photos cropping up from other photographers so I figured if I’m going to get any I’d better head out soon, but it looks like at least half of everything is either dead or still green, so there’s not a whole lot to work with this year possibly because of the drought.

I haven’t been updating very frequently on this blog as I’ve been pretty busy with other things going on, and it kind of feels nice to take a break from it too sometimes.

Photos of the highway loop with the skyline along Truman Road – one of the 1970s urban renewal schemes.

Photos with my telephoto lens only taken from Kaw Point Park in KCK with some shots looking toward the KCMO skyline and others of bridges over what I think is the Kansas River.

Here are a few photos from a shoot last week at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO to get photos for next year’s Missouri Travel Guide. One of the photos from the shoot is planned to be used on the cover. The subject is the under-construction Outlaw Run wooden roller coaster at Silver Dollar City.

Photos from Saturday evening in the Crossroads after taking the Roasterie airplane photos posted yesterday – Kansas City, MO.

MAX bus shelter across from the Kauffman Center:

Webster House and the Kauffman Center:

After turning around…

I climbed a chain link fence, tearing up my jeans and underwear, to get these rooftop skyline shots from along Baltimore:

View of the Kauffman Center’s southeast side from the roof of the one-story building on Baltimore St:

Artistic guardrails over the highway along Wyandotte Street across from the Convention Center Ballroom:

North side of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts from the Convention Center:

View toward Crown Center from the Convention Center: