The Mayor’s office was kind enough to allow me some up close access at the Mayor’s Christmas Tree Lighting at Crown Center on Friday evening. R&B/Soul performer Janelle Monáe and Mayor of Kansas City Sly James were on stage and also mingling with the crowd before and after the lighting. Friday 11/25/11.
Second round of shots taken the late afternoon of November 10th from a helicopter above Lower Manhattan as we circled around the World Trade Center site.
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I wanted to get some aerial shots of the new One World Trade Center tower in New York before they top it off and finish cladding it with glass. I had a little time and (barely) enough money to go this past week. These aerials were taken on the afternoon of Thursday November 10th a day after I arrived. I figure it should make at least some business sense to get progress shots of a construction project of this magnitude.
The September 11th Memorial, as I understand it, as accessible if you call ahead and schedule a visit – I think. I didn’t have a lot of time while there to investigate every detail. I took a little over 500 shots while in the helicopter above Lower Manhattan, and on Sunday when I got back to Kansas City and got the pics onto the computer, chopped that down to 100 or so, with still some more selection to do and some editing to do on a few additional ones.
The Wed. morning Nov. 9th flight from KC to NY – Laguardia.
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Novum Structures was one of my clients recently who subcontracted on the construction of the Kauffman Center For the Performing Arts. Novum commissioned shots of their work on the Kauffman Center’s glass and cabling structures on the roof and to the south end of the building. Kansas City, MO – September 2011.
Not far at all from where I live – and grew up too incidentally. I’ve visited four continents thus far but always after the return flight revert to a townie in the midtown area. My car from which you may have seen its interior shots is currently immobilized due to manual transmission/clutch indecisiveness and disagreeability. I am therefore confined to the Metro and on foot, so for this I did a bit not far of a walk away…
^ Above: I thought the terminal sightline view with the telephoto lens down the long street might be a little fun, but I thought compared to the fun that can be had with a wide angle it wasn’t my favorite type of shot to do. So immediately to the wide angle lens…
^ People whom I would guess don’t see in geometrics as much don’t understand why I tilt the camera a lot. All I did was line it up with the corners and lines of the sidewalk so that those lines are straight, thereby everything else is skewed.
^ Vanishing point down Roanoke Parkway next to an under-renovation apartment building between Terrace and Roanoke. Again lined up with the sidewalk as reference.
^ Sometimes photography puts you into the role of property trespasser, as I found myself here inside this circular thing with no windows on the first floor of the unoccupied apartment building under renovation. In my opinion fisheye combined with circularity works great in a lot of situations – from the Kauffman Center to a decades old Midtown apartment building.
There was a small rally/protest in Ft. Leavenworth adjacent to the detention facility where Bradley Manning, also known as the Wikileaks whistleblower is being held. Manning is an Army soldier arrested in May 2010 on suspicion of passing along classified material to Wikileaks. Wikipedia does a better job of explaining than I can… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
Photos from near a medium security detention facility in Fort. Leavenworth Kansas on Saturday, October 29.
