Fall-ish October shots from just off the Plaza that detail somewhat the West Edge project being deconstructed before it was even finished. Get your pictures now while you still can. Friday 10/28/2011.
This weekend will be busy – there’s a protest/rally for the Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning at Ft. Leavenworth on Saturday and an Occupy KC event Sunday downtown both of which I’m going to try for shots of.
As far as I know I’m finished shooting my work for some subcontractors on the Kauffman Center For the Performing Arts building. These are from a shoot Sunday night in Helzberg Hall – one of two performance halls at the Center. I took a number of shots for GKD Metal Fabrics, a company that installed the stainless steel mesh at the front of the hall around the pipe organ from floor to ceiling. Quite a number more photos have been taken for them but the ones I’m posting here give a more overall view of the performance hall.
As I mentioned previously I’ll have a line of prints and products in the Kauffman Center gift shop shortly, with some exterior shots I’ve been gathering lately and a few from inside the building.
These photos alternate back and forth between fisheye and wide angle – both of which are the most useful kinds of lenses inside a lot of the building usually.
With the opening of the Kauffman Center last month I’ve been able to get to work putting together portfolio photography for some of the companies who subcontracted construction on the building who’ve become my photo clients. Most of my work is done at this point but I still have some to complete next week. In this post I’m showing the photos I shot for ELP Lighting, which designed the recessed lighting fixtures in the walls that I focus on in these shots.
There will be a line of prints and products based off my photos at the Kauffman Center gift shop. Right now we’re going through the process of selecting from the existing stock what they’ll want, and I also need to get busy shooting new photos in the near term too it looks like.
On Thursday evening I caught up with Brandon Ellington at a fundraiser for his campaign for Missouri 41st District State Representative. There’s a special election being held November 8. In addition to Brandon I’m performing some campaign photo work for another contender in the Nov 8 special election as well.
Brandon is a community organizer and on the East Side where he often leads cleanup efforts in blighted areas, and is co-founder of the group Voices Of The People.
While shooting some portfolio pics for GKD Metal Fabrics, a subcontractor on the Kauffman Center building that installed some stainless steel in Helzberg Hall around the ceiling and pipe organ, I also had the chance to go up on top of the canopy hanging from the ceiling inside Helzberg Hall – accessible by a small lift you stand in to get from just under the roof of Helzberg Hall through a hole in the floor to the top of the canopy. They had me harness up to get near the edge.
1) Front of Helzberg Hall and the pipe organ from the elevated view standing on the canopy.
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3) Part of the top of the canopy on the right.
4) Canopy accessible by a lift going through the hole in the ceiling.
5) Standing above the lift down to the canopy as a couple of the Kauffman Center employees I was with were coming up the lift.
6) Some of the GKD Metal Fabrics stainless steel winding its way up to the top of Helzberg Hall, taken from the leftmost skylight space near the roof.
7) View of GKD stainless steel with the front of the hall and the canopy.
Consecutive posts by coincidence of architect Moshe Safdie’s two buildings in Kansas City – yesterday’s West Edge post and these shots of the Kauffman Center’s northwest side. Last night while working on some photography for subcontractors on the Kauffman Center building I nabbed these shots with the moon while outside. I was able to get up on top of the canopy in Helzberg Hall and will have photos from that posted soon enough.
^ Literary embellishment on above photo – I see a face in the sky looking back at me. As a rule sometimes that’ll happen.
