I’ve had to start tearing through my photo files doing mass deletions of all the superflous non-essentials to clear up hard drive space. Every once in awhile I come across compositions from the past that I never got around to editing and posting. These two are from April 30, 2010 at that lookout pedestrian bridge at 2nd Street in the River Market overlooking the Missouri River. I took these with my now retired original version Canon 5D that served me faithfully for three years before I got my 5D MK II a year ago.
I have accumulated so many RAWs and TIFFs that my three terabyte array in my desktop computer was nearly full and making the computer lag and run slowly – so it’s been my multiple-day project doing the tedious chore of going through deleting like mad. I’ve upgraded internal hard drive capacity two or three times before and decided I’m not doing it again – there’s no good reason to keep so many useless digital files in my computer. But occasionally I come across old stuff that’s good that I never did anything with.
Both are fisheye lens shots…
I started noticing I have a tendency to take pictures of the outside while I’m inside things, and it’s happened with my car’s interior a couple times before, so I’ve decided to continue the theme for a bit.
Downtown scenes from inside my car… just this week I arranged for her tags to be renewed for another two years. JEALOUS?
All day Tuesday on Pershing in front of Union Station there was a modern streetcar demo in place to highlight the push for a modern streetcar line in the downtown area of Kansas City MO from the River Market to Crown Center/Union Station. I ran into a few people I know/recognize, including Fourth District Council Lady Jan Marcason. Mayor Sly James was scheduled to visit at 7am but I didn’t have it in me to be up that early.
Kansas City Mayor Sly James visited the Country Club Plaza Saturday evening in an effort to address the problem of underage loitering and flash mobs that have started to take place in the past year on the Plaza. I followed Mayor Sly around for the evening and snapped some photos of him talking with people, including many of the underage kids who are being dropped off by their parents for hours at a time on the Plaza and left to their own devices.
In a terrible twist of timing, three young people were shot and wounded on the Plaza very near the Mayor after I had departed and gone home. Word has it that the Mayor was taken to the ground by his security contingent for his own protection as the shots rang out. Click here for the article at the Kansas City Star. All nine of the following photos were taken before the night turned ugly.
The Mayor addressing the media near Nichols Fountain prior to walking through the Plaza.
Former Councilman and activist Alvin Brooks at left with Mayor Sly James at right.
Mayor Sly and a KCPD Mounted Patrol horse.
On Sunday afternoon I went for pics as a storm blew through Kansas City – I went to the Link skywalk, also referred to as the above-street honkey tubes – at Crown Center for shots as the storm blew over. I’ve done pictures in this skywalk before but only the sections above Pershing and Main, while these shown here are more above Grand Avenue. I hope the commenters on the blog of my BFF Tony’s Kansas City like the profuse amount of camera tilting I used.
I hopped around the Crossroads yesterday evening on First Friday with a friend who encouraged me to go do something. I used three lenses, the fisheye, my wide angle, and my telephoto for these 21 shots affixed to my Canon 5D MK II – August 5, 2011. The somewhat unexpected below-100 degree weather made the evening more bearable for everyone.
A couple shots from around some industrial areas in North Kansas City looking south toward the skyline on the other side of the river. I’d actually gone out for Bond Bridge pictures but did this instead after I saw the location I picked for the view toward the bridge on the map is blocked out by trees.
