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
Bunch of stuff from 2013 I haven’t put up on here yet.
Skyline, Kansas City, MO.
Misc. downtown KCMO.
Chateau du 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.
Shawnee Mission Medical Center – Birth Center maternal care addition – interior architecture photos. Maybe one day I’ll get around to some of the exteriors.
More KCMO Skyline, and a bit wit the Scout Statue.
Water and sewer photos – starting with the KC Waterworks water treatment facility.
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.
Out on site – fixin’ the sewers.
Along Roanoke, West Plaza.
Snowman.
Residential.
Deadly Intersection.
Residential & Plaza Vista
Ward Parkway & Roanoke.
Site of JJ’s, where a gas explosion destroyed the restaurant recently.
Prepping to go on air for Channel 9, Michael Mahoney and Lasaro Abalos (@heycameraman).
Staircase along Belleview.
Roanoke & Belleview.
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.
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.
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 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: