The just-installed Roasterie DC-3 airplane on 27th Street in the Westside, Kansas City MO…
A couple blocks to the east of the Roasterie’s building are a couple old-school Westside buildings, this one is Ortega’s Mexican Store…
Guadalupe Salud Center across the street from Ortega’s, 27th and Belleview…
Metal toy tractor on the sidewalk in front of Ortega’s…
Back to The Roasterie…
Some shots of traffic motion through intersections on 47th Street on the Plaza, taken for my traffic signal and intersection photo project for Rhythm Engineering.
One final shot after I finished what I needed of the KCFD parked in front of Barnes and Noble. While I was getting my settings together a huge stream of people went in and out of the doors – and I wanted to get that captured with a motion blur of a couple second shutter opening, but didn’t manage to nab it by the time it happened, so this is what I was left with…
Photos of the Vine Street Workhouse near 18th and Vine, Kansas City, Missouri – built in 1897. More info at https://www.kansascityworkhouse.com/
…and one ending shot of my beer at Twin City Tavern on Westport Road and State Line at the end.
I was up on the 19th floor of the City Center Square building downtown around 5pm Wednesday (08/15/12) to get some shots at the Bratcher Gockel and Kingston law office. While there and waiting for the staff to prepare I threw on the wide angle lens in the conference room and took a few snaps out the window with its elevated view of things. One of the firm’s partners, Lynne Bratcher, took the case for my friend and favorite blogger Tony’s Kansas City (Tony Botello) in his dispute with retiring Local 42 union chief Louie Wright.
At a fundraiser event Thursday evening (Aug 9) for my high school classmate from Bishop Miege class of ’99 Jason Kander – winner in his Democratic primary race for the Missouri Secretary of State position. His campaign continues through November against Republican opponent Shane Shoeller.
– Jason Kander with Sly James, Mayor of Kansas City, MO.
– Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders
I thought this would be a new and maybe interesting place for angles on the city. I might have been wrong as this part of downtown Kansas City is one urban planning blunder after another, but I tried to make something decent looking from it. There are weeds growing out of the sidewalks and a huge parking lot at 20th, and a desolate feeling as there’s mostly nothing around but office uses, at least south up the hill on McGee. When you get north toward 20th there’s just too much parking to have much of a real city there until you move up to about 19th. There are all kinds of holes the 20th Century left in this city still needing to be patched.
Ten photos taken Monday evening of the former AMC Mainstreet Theatre, which recently became the the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. I licensed a few photos of this place to AMC not long after they opened back in 2008 I believe it was – and with the ownership change-up I figured I’d grab a few new ones. If they eventually modify the signage more-so than just the removal of the AMC logo, maybe it will warrant some more shots later.
I’m working on a project with the creative director at Rhythm Engineering, one of Kansas City’s fastest growing young companies – and designers of advanced “self-optimizing” traffic lights. On Thursday we shot a number of photos downtown and the Plaza. These are wide-angle and fisheye lens shots of local intersections with an emphasis placed on movement and flowing traffic – although I still need to hit up the Plaza today (Saturday) while it’s busier with people on the sidewalks and so-forth. Once all the shots are compiled and picked, they’re to be used for Rhythm’s marketing, advertising, and graphics uses.
For all eleven of these, I was shooting at a very low ISO of 50 and narrow apertures between f/18 and f/22, all to slow the shutter speed down to between a fifth and a tenth of a second so that the moving traffic would appear blurred, and thus help convey a sense of motion.
On Monday June 18th, the night I shot my downtown KC aerial photography in my previous post, I also requested of the helicopter pilot to circle us a couple of times around the former West Edge site, now to be called “Plaza Vista” I believe, where JE Dunn is constructing the new 4840 Roanoke building to serve as headquarters for the Polsinelli Shughart law firm.
Pictures from Wednesday night of the “Float” installation of hammocks by artist Jarrett Mellenbruch across from the Kauffman Center on the south lawn of the Kansas City Convention Center Ballroom. The hammocks are open to lie in 24/7 now through September.
First, a shot of the Convention Center with the Kauffman Center outline reflected in the windows –
And hammocks…
On Sunday for a couple hours I gathered some intersection and traffic signal photos as preliminary work for scouting locations and finding types of compositions that a new client is looking for. They design self-optimizing traffic lights and we’re working on producing some promotional and marketing material. These photos are trying to emphasize green traffic signals in relatively busy intersections. I used a step-stool for some of these to get up closer.
Last week I took advantage of parts of the fencing around the burned out Horace Mann School at 39th & Euclid/Garfield having been removed, so I went trespassing for photos. It turned out I was the only one alive on-site at the time. It was closed many years ago, and caught fire several months ago. Good to have some shots of it because I’m sure it’ll be demo’d eventually.
Sunday night Memorial Day Weekend symphony concert at Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. This was the tenth annual, and my sixth consecutive year getting shots if I’m counting correctly.
Three lenses used in this post, wide-angle, telephoto, and fisheye.
CLICK HERE for last year’s 2011 Celebration At The Station photo post.
I spent an abnormal amount of time shooting this past Saturday, so I’m dumping 27 photos on to the blog all at once.
In protest of Kansas Senate Bill 79 – the anti-Sharia law bill, a protest took place on the Plaza –
Interior of Boozefish Wine Bar on Westport Road –
View of downtown and the Crossroads from Liberty Memorial –
View of Switzer School/West Junior High on Summit Street in the West Side, taken from Liberty Memorial –
Union Station waiting hall –
Pedestrian bridge between Union Station and Freighthouse –
Union Station exterior up close –
Highway loop and intersections along Truman Road downtown –
I remember this stretch along McGee near 10th – I worked in the UMB building on the corner one summer years ago, before the Sprint Center and the tear-down of the Shoppers Parkade garage. There used to be a deli we’d get food from. Now with nothing but a giant parking lot bounded by 10th to 11th and Grand to McGee, the views have changed a lot from what I remember back in 2001.
I also meandered over to Oak Street and around City Hall too.
Power and Light Building –
Sprint Center from 10th Street looking south down McGee.
Bryant Building, Wall Sreet Tower, Town Pavillion –
The notorious Pickwick Plaza sits closed down now –
Alley behind Pickwick Plaza building –
Around 10th and Oak –
City Hall and Oak Tower –
Statue across from City Hall of former mayor Ilus Davis.
Bradley Manning Rally in Kansas City – this article can give you a background of this issue if you’re unfamiliar with Bradley Manning, the Army Private in Baghdad who leaked classified files to Wikileaks. He then spent about two years in confinement with no charges, and is currently awaiting court martial.
Earlier this week I dropped off some old computer parts at the Surplus Exchange recycling place in the West Bottoms under I-70 – and a couple days later I went back for photos figuring something could be done as far as photos go. For these I used just my telephoto lens, instead of my frequent wide angle and fisheye shots.
I don’t know what else to call this post but one night I threw together a few new shots from in The Link above Main, then outside of Union Station with the Boat Anchor for the Titanic Exhibit – then one at the end of the Missouri Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington Square Park.
Fisheye lens for all of the skywalk shots –
Switch to regular wide angle lens for a couple of the front –
then back to the fisheye…
18th and Holmes is a fairly unassuming and non-descript intersection but after stopping and parking there I thought it worked out pretty well. Near the end I climbed to a second-floor exit to get some elevated shots. Three lenses used for this post. Also, I need to update the aesthetics and presentation of this blog, it’s getting a little stale. Hopefully that will be coming in the not too distant future.
Shots I took Wednesday and Thursday nights – first of some streetscape improvements between 39th and 43rd and Main, Kansas City MO.
Then some shots taken from the community garden at 18th and Broadway on Thursday evening.
Last one is a telephoto shot taken from the garden looking towards some lofts in the Crossroads District with Crown Center buildings in the background.
Other shots from the top of that Crossroads parking garage I mentioned the other day – I did a few shots there two or three weeks back with the wide angle lens and this time went back to use the telephoto aimed at the Kauffman Center. These two other shots here I nabbed in between and after getting that shot.
Because I get a noticeable enough amount of incoming search traffic for the Kauffman Center and photos of it, I decided it would be a good idea to make a new website dedicated to my shots I’ve compiled over the past three years of the building, from interior and exterior to construction and completion phases. I figured it couldn’t hurt to have a domain name dedicated to the collection. The exterior shots not requiring property releases are available for print and licensing purchases.
Check it out: https://www.kauffmancenterphotos.com
I found a new spot on top of a Crossroads parking garage a couple weeks ago that affords a near unimpeded view of the front of the Kauffman Center – Sunday I went back to nab a close up with my telephoto lens.
