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.
Sprint Center from 10th Street looking south down McGee.
Bryant Building, Wall Sreet Tower, Town Pavillion –
The notorious Pickwick Plaza sits closed down now –
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.