The annual Celebration at the Station took place last night leading into Memorial Day with a concert from the Kansas City symphony at Union Station and Liberty Memorial. The warm weather brought a big turn-out. I’ve made a habit of getting new shots of this event each year for five years in a row now. Photos shown in chronological order, Sunday evening May 29 on Memorial Day weekend.
I went back in the Kauffman Center for another photo tour on Thursday May 26 as the building nears further completion.
Above: The grand lobby/Brandmeyer Great Hall from the lower level of the lobby on looking toward the southwest.
Below: On the upper level of the lobby. Because of the glass and light reflections you can see the Hyatt and the Lathrop & Gage buildings reflected in the glass next to the Bartle Hall Skystation pylons to the left.
Continuing where I stopped from this post a few days ago we have downtown KC with storms coming in on the night of May 11th. Visible from left to right are the Crown Plaza Hotel, the One Kansas City Place building, Town Pavillion, Power and Light Building, 1201 Walnut with the Stinson sign, and a sliver of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts with one of its parking garage cranes.
Six shots from today’s Seventh Annual Troost Festival at 31st and Troost, organized by Reconciliation Services.
1) Down the street at pavement level.
2) Kauffman Center Ambassadors table at the fest.
3) Dancing in the street at 31st and Troost
4) Music down the street.
5) Hula hoop usage with my fisheye lens and cropped.
6) Father Paisius Altschul, main organizer of the Troost Fest, of Reconciliation Services at 3101 Troost.
The following are shots on my portfolio site from last year’s Troost Fest, which was better attended due to the warmer weather last year. It’s stuck in the 50 degree F range in KC this weekend.
After my taekwondo class ended I grabbed my camera bag last night and ran out to the plot of land that the “L-Shaped House” used to sit on, intending to get some Kauffman Center construction telephoto shots. Instead I was more fond of the general downtown skyline pictures I nabbed, until it started raining so hard I had to stop. Hopefully the Canon 5D Mark II camera is weather sealed really nice, as it did get rained upon quite a bit in my mad dash back to the car.
Above: Part of downtown including the Bartle Hall Skystations and the One Kansas City Place building, Kansas City, Missouri not long before it started raining hard.
Below: A view across the Crossroads District toward Crown Center and Liberty Memorial. I-35 traffic in the foreground.
-Evening of May 11, 2011.
A couple shots from my visit to Puerto Rico back in March that I just now processed…
Above: Inside Castillo de San Cristobal in the Old San Juan National Historic Site.
Below: Cll Odonell next to Plaza de Colón in the heart of Old San Juan.
Above – at the top of a garage at 9th looking south down Central St. toward the new terminal view of the north side of the Kauffman Center with the Bartle Hall Skystation pylons.
Below – in the garage elevator bank looking through the glass with the camera and tripod viewable in the reflection at left.
For the first shot it made geometric sense to keep the camera/tripod level, while in the second photo a different angle was needed given the interior combined with a wide angle lens.
-evening of Sunday May 8, ’11.
A couple shots from Saturday afternoon at the Guadalupe Center for their weekend-long Cinco de Mayo festival. I took shots at the Sly James inauguration picnic at Starlight Theatre, so hopefully I’ll be able to post a couple of those coming soon as well.
Above: Looking east down Avenida Cesar Chavez past the Guadalupe Center and several blocks, with a view toward the side of Union Station with the I-35 bridge running in between.
Below: Performances and dancing in the Guadalupe Center
Last night at dusk I went up the hill from Ward Parkway to Rockwell Lane and Sunset Drive and used my telephoto lens to get a look at the West Edge project as it’s been for at least a couple of years now – unfinished. I thought I heard something about it again in the news again but I can’t quite remember what.
-May 4, 2011
On Sunday afternoon at Mill Creek Park on the Plaza in Kansas City, a rally was organized encouraging the protesters in Syria currently being fired upon by government forces of Bashar al-Assad.
Press releases were sent to the local KC news stations, but none showed up, backing up my own ongoing question of “what exactly would ya say the news stations do?”
