I did the Kauffman Center’s event photography for Tuesday morning’s Civic Dedication. Sunday is a big open house event. The Civic Dedication’s speakers included Mayor Sly James, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, Jane Chu, CEO of the Kauffman Center, Jan Marcason of the City Council’s 4th District, and Julia Irene Kauffman. Here are a few general […]
Lollygagging around this area the other afternoon… Protip to one or two dopes in the comments sections of my favorite Kansas City blogger Tony’s Kansas City that there’s no special “star filter” for when the sun shines like this, it’s shooting with a narrow aperture (this was at f/16). When it’s that narrow the lens aperture […]
Photo plans involving some others on Saturday evening got changed, so I wound up taking pics of this little Twentieth Century urban modernist remnant from hell, along Central Street downtown between 14th and 16th Streets. I used my wide angle Canon 16-35 L II for the highway/convention center shots and my telephoto 100-400 L for […]
Four shots of the temporary conceptual art installation by John Salvest in Penn Valley Memorial Park that happens to be across from the Kansas City branch of the Federal Reserve. Made of shipping contrainers, it spells out USA and IOU. Article on Channel 9’s website Thanks for Tony’s Kansas City for mentioning this and bringing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Three different edits of the same shot, something random I took Sunday afternoon on Westport Road. Color version. Fisheye lens distortion corrected in Adobe Lightroom. I usually don’t like the distorion-less fisheyes but in this case I thought even it was a little interesting as well. First one with a black and white treatment. I […]
I took some shots today (Saturday July 9) for my friends Jason and Diana Kander as Jason had his yearly fundraising picnic for his seat as Missouri 44th District State House Representative. There was a get together at the home of some of Jason’s constituents. Jason and I were in the same high school graduating […]
Finishing up what I’m posting of new stuff I’ve conjured up to submit for the Green Exposures photo project with the KCMO Parks Department, I went to the small Pioneer Park in Westport right next to the busy intersection of Broadway and Westport Road. This sculpture group is called “The Pioneers” by Tom Beard. I […]
Another post covering some of my new shots for the KC Parks Department’s Green Exposures photo project, for this I stopped at Garment District Place at 8th and Broadway last week in the early evening. I later went and caught that night’s really good hour of lighting at Washington Square Park by Crown Center which […]
As part of my work right now for the KCMO Parks Department’s Green Exposures project, I’m grabbing some new shots of places around the city overseen by the Parks Dept. that I don’t have much existing material on. For this post I have nine photos of the Colonnade at Gladstone Blvd and St. John Avenue, […]
I’m working on a photo project for the KCMO Parks Dept which entails gathering and collecting shots of KC parks and amenities, so Saturday evening I was at Case Park in Quality Hill downtown. At the end I brought out my telephoto lens and aimed it toward the West Bottoms trying to catch that tradeoff […]
The center-point of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and a hub for the touristy historic area, the public square Plaza de Colón in San Juan. A placeholder weekend post – a photo from my trip to Puerto Rico back in mid-March. I still haven’t quite finished all the editing work on those photos yet. Another […]
I took these two telephoto shots the same night as the two wide-angles from my most recent prior posting. I had gone that night to 18th and Jefferson to train the telephoto lens on the Kauffman Center for a scheduled lighting pattern inside the building, but that didn’t go as planned – plus I think […]
Three new pics from downtown on Friday night right just as the rain started moving in. The world’s largest skateboard is in town on Grand Avenue for the Street League Skateboarding tournament at the Sprint Center this weekend. There were more people visible in this first scene but they don’t show in the photo due […]
A view from around 18th and Wyandotte near the Arts Incubator in the Crossroads District back on June’s First Friday, 6/03/11. There were a couple dancers performing in the street and traffic was running pretty slow through this crowd. I kind of think they should consider closing off that block at 18th between Baltimore and […]
Two shots from around the Brandmeyer Great Hall in the soon-to-be completed Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Kansas City. They’ve just launched their Twitter feed for the 100 day countdown to the grand opening, https://twitter.com/#!/KauffmanCenter Above: Near what will be the bar area on the upper level with a view toward the […]
This morning (Saturday June 4) a protest by local Catholics took place across the street from Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at 11th and Broadway in downtown Kansas City, MO due to revelations of a Kansas City Diocese cover-up and consultation with their own lawyers over the discovery of child pornography on Father Shawn Ratigan’s […]
Two shots from last night, 6/2/2011 of the recently installed “Ferment” stainless steel tree sculpture by artist Roxy Paine on a hill in the southeastern portion of the lawn of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. above – wide angle lens below – fisheye lens EDIT: Six later photos from December […]
The annual Celebration at the Station took place last night leading into Memorial Day with a concert from the Kansas City symphony at Union Station and Liberty Memorial. The warm weather brought a big turn-out. I’ve made a habit of getting new shots of this event each year for five years in a row now. […]
I went back in the Kauffman Center for another photo tour on Thursday May 26 as the building nears further completion. Above: The grand lobby/Brandmeyer Great Hall from the lower level of the lobby on looking toward the southwest. Below: On the upper level of the lobby. Because of the glass and light reflections […]