Entries by Eric

Downtown Kansas City Skyline Aerial Photo Set

 

June 20, 2012 /7 Comments/by

“Float” Hammock Installation at KC Convention Center

Pictures from Wednesday night of the “Float” installation of hammocks by artist Jarrett Mellenbruch across from the Kauffman Center on the south lawn of the Kansas City Convention Center Ballroom. The hammocks are open to lie in 24/7 now through September. First, a shot of the Convention Center with the Kauffman Center outline reflected in […]

June 15, 2012 /2 Comments/by

Preliminary Photos for Kansas City Traffic Signal Project

On Sunday for a couple hours I gathered some intersection and traffic signal photos as preliminary work for scouting locations and finding types of compositions that a new client is looking for. They design self-optimizing traffic lights and we’re working on producing some promotional and marketing material. These photos are trying to emphasize green traffic […]

June 11, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Views of Kansas City From 8th and Harrison

This is my second recent post playing around with the 71 Highway overpasses. Kansas City, Missouri. Most of these are with my long telephoto lens, and the last two with the wide angle and fisheye.  

June 6, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Ruins of Horace Mann Elementary School

Last week I took advantage of parts of the fencing around the burned out Horace Mann School at 39th & Euclid/Garfield having been removed, so I went trespassing for photos. It turned out I was the only one alive on-site at the time. It was closed many years ago, and caught fire several months ago. […]

June 5, 2012 /26 Comments/by

First Friday & Zombie Walk

I only took a few shots last Friday in the Crossroads Dist… and tagged along for a few blocks with the Zombie Walk For Hunger trying to get something good. Whatever, I took a hundred shots and thought most of them were lousy that night. So four is what it is.  

June 4, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Downtown Kansas City From The East

For this post I was looking for new spots to shoot from. I stopped along 10th Street at first and then made my way north a bit. Downtown Kansas City, Missouri…  

June 2, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Kansas City’s 2012 Celebration At The Station

Sunday night Memorial Day Weekend symphony concert at Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. This was the tenth annual, and my sixth consecutive year getting shots if I’m counting correctly. Three lenses used in this post, wide-angle, telephoto, and fisheye. CLICK HERE for last year’s 2011 Celebration At The Station photo post.  

May 29, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Kansas City – Saturday May 19, 2012

I spent an abnormal amount of time shooting this past Saturday, so I’m dumping 27 photos on to the blog all at once. In protest of Kansas Senate Bill 79 – the anti-Sharia law bill, a protest took place on the Plaza – Interior of Boozefish Wine Bar on Westport Road – View of downtown […]

May 21, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Along Broadway – Downtown Kansas City

  A bunch of shots I took one evening last week along Broadway between 8th and 10th Streets, downtown Kansas City, Missouri.  

May 19, 2012 /0 Comments/by

On the Main St. MAX Bus

From the Plaza north to downtown to get my car, Saturday May 5.  

May 5, 2012 /0 Comments/by

9th and Walnut – Downtown KCMO

Shots from last week near 9th and Walnut, downtown Kansas City, Missouri.  

May 3, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Troost Festival 2012

Eighth annual Troost Festival, 31st and Troost, Kansas City MO, Saturday April 28.  

April 30, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Tenth Street Between McGee & Oak – Downtown Kansas City

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 […]

April 28, 2012 /1 Comment/by

View of KCMO From Front Street & Olive in East Bottoms

I took these three shots the same night as the Bond Bridge photos from a couple days ago, near the Missouri River and Olive & Front St.  

April 27, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Bradley Manning Rally on the Plaza Wednesday Evening

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.  

April 26, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Around 9th and Baltimore

KCMO photos from around 9th and Baltimore, downtown. The Union Carbide Building: New York Life Insurance Building at right: Along 9th Street: The old Cosby Hotel building recently saved from demolition: Baltimore Street and the Cosby Hotel: Intersection of 9th and Wyandotte:  

April 25, 2012 /0 Comments/by

The Bond Bridge Over the Missouri River

Photos of the Kit Bond Bridge at sunset on Sunday. I shot from a hill area accessible from Front St and Olive in the East Bottoms area.  

April 24, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Underneath I-70 in the West Bottoms

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 […]

April 21, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Kauffman Center From Inside My Car

It’s been a few months since any new photos from the interior of my car and I hadn’t tried any with the Kauffman Center yet…  

April 18, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Pershing & Main – Kansas City

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. […]

April 14, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Downtown KC from 18th & Main

On top of the garage at 18th and Main, downtown Kansas City, Missouri.  

April 12, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Views of Kansas City from 18th & Holmes

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, […]

April 11, 2012 /0 Comments/by

4840 Roanoke Construction – Former West Edge Site

Photos of the just-started 4840 Roanoke building construction off the Plaza in Kansas City. This project replaces the West Edge building recently demolished before it reached completion.  

April 10, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Maincor Street Improvements and Community Garden at 18th and Broadway

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 […]

April 7, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Views of downtown KC from a Crossroads District Parking Garage

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 […]

April 3, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Announcing KauffmanCenterPhotos.com

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. […]

April 2, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Trayvon Martin Rally in Kansas City on Monday

As many of you know there was a large rally on the Plaza in Kansas City on Monday afternoon – I stopped by and got a few shots of the large crowd.  

March 27, 2012 /0 Comments/by

All Around the Outside of the Kauffman Center

Last week I grabbed some new Kauffman Center shots – some from standing in different locations on the site than I have before – and duplicating some past shots but under sunset lighting conditions also, such as the front facing fisheye shots highlighting the steel cabling holding up the “glass curtain” on the south side […]

March 23, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Crossroads District Residential Area At Dusk

Shots from just south of Southwest Boulevard and behind Union Station near the Freighthouse, Kansas City Missouri.  

March 20, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Kansas City Protest of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad – Sunday March 18

As conflict goes on between rebels and Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad government, a protest took place again on the Plaza Sunday afternoon.  

March 19, 2012 /0 Comments/by

House Under Demolition on Southwest Trafficway, KCMO

A large old house around 34th and Southwest Trafficway was just demolished this past week. These shots were taken on Tuesday on the grounds of the shuttered Norman School (one of the KCMO school district’s closed schools). I drove by again on Thursday and saw it looked like the whole site had been cleared.  

March 17, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Downtown Kansas City During the Big 12 Tournament

Last Saturday I went downtown to collect some potential stock images for future sale with downtown all busy, although I kind of failed at capturing anything related to the Big 12 tournament going on as everyone was inside the Sprint Center during the MU-Baylor game while I was there . I haven’t posted in a […]

March 15, 2012 /0 Comments/by

West Edge Demolition Progress on March 5, 2012

Updated progress shots of the demolition job of the West Edge project on the Plaza – Kansas City, Missouri. Monday March 5th.  

March 6, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Graffiti Tagged Bus Stop at 48th & Roanoke

On Monday I went out for some progress shots on the West Edge project demolition – at the end I shot this pic of a graffiti tagged bus shelter at 48th and Roanoke, Kansas City, MO.  

March 5, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Kansas City’s Protest Against Syria’s Assad Regime Sunday

Another protest this week on Sunday was held near Nichols Fountain on the Plaza against Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad and his government. People from the mideast living in Kansas City have done a good job of holding solidarity protests alongside the overthrow of mid-eastern dictators over the past year. 2-26-12  

February 26, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Through the Airplane Window

The sun god smiling upon the worlds, in November 2011 on a flight from New York to Kansas City.  

February 24, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Kauffman Center Front Fisheye

Playing around with the fisheye lens and the steel cabling holding up the “glass curtain” at the Kauffman Center in Kansas City, engineered by Novum Structures.  

February 21, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Protest in Kansas City on Sunday Against Assad Regime in Syria

A protest took place Sunday afternoon (Feb 19 2012) on the Plaza in Kansas City, MO against the corrupt Bashar government in Syria. Widespread atrocities are reported in Syria at present, though it mostly goes unnoticed in the American media.  

February 19, 2012 /1 Comment/by

River Market – Delaware and Walnut Streets

Some photos from the River Market in Kansas City after it snowed this week. The tilts are so the edges of the photos line up with the lines of the buildings, and to show vanishing points down the streets, and so forth…  

February 15, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Under the 12th Street Bridge

From walking around the part still blocked off to car traffic, underneath the 12th Street Bridge on Sunday afternoon.  

February 13, 2012 /0 Comments/by

At Paseo and Linwood in Kansas City

I wanted to try and grab some up close fisheye shots of the unique old traffic signal in the middle of the intersection at Paseo and Linwood, and also stuck around for some shots of a couple other notable buildings along with some abandoned houses near Linwood and Wayne Street.  

February 10, 2012 /1 Comment/by

Downtown Kansas City Street Scenes Along Grand Avenue

Wide angle lens shots with some long-exposure bus motion along Grand Avenue between 9th and 11th Streets, downtown Kansas City MO.  

February 9, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Update on West Edge Demolition Plus Geese By Brush Creek

One afternoon last week I walked from my West Plaza dwelling down to the demolition site of the West Edge project on the Plaza, and to Brush Creek where the geese were grazing.  

February 8, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park in Downtown Kansas City

Hanging around Oppenstein Park at 12th and Walnut in downtown Kansas City one evening for fisheye dusk shots. The fisheye lens seemed most suitable since there’s a lot of circularity present in the small urban park.  

February 7, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Kansas City’s West Bottoms at Sunset

Photos from the edge of the Quality Hill area near the 12th Street Bridge in downtown Kansas City MO looking westward toward the West Bottoms at sunset. Below: hint – it’s tilted so that the trains at the bottom are in a straight line.  

February 6, 2012 /2 Comments/by

Protest of Russian Election Results on Saturday

Saturday afternoon a small protest was held at Mill Creek Park on the Plaza in Kansas City against the fraudulent Russian elections that took place at the end of last year. The group was also joined by some members of the Occupy Kansas City movement for the protest at the corner of 47th and JC […]

February 4, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Photo Shoot For Window Advertising

Last week I worked on a photo gig involving getting some wide shots, mostly with the fisheye lens, of some of the windows at the K-State Olathe Campus Innovation Center out past K-10 and I-435. These two shots were what the client picked for further use – both taken at sunrise.  

February 3, 2012 /0 Comments/by

Downtown KC – Library District Fisheyes

Fourteen fisheye lens photos from Sunday evening 1/29/12 in what’s come to be known as the Library District, on 10th Street generally between Wyandotte and Main.  

January 31, 2012 /2 Comments/by

Downtown Kansas City – Crossroads Dist. and P&L

On Friday evening, 01/27/12 I put together a few shots after parking in the Crossroads along Walnut and walking north past Truman up to 14th St. and over to Main – downtown Kansas City, Missouri.  

January 30, 2012 /0 Comments/by