Entries by Eric
Kansas City As Storms Rolled In
After my taekwondo class ended I grabbed my camera bag last night and ran out to the plot of land that the “L-Shaped House” used to sit on, intending to get some Kauffman Center construction telephoto shots. Instead I was more fond of the general downtown skyline pictures I nabbed, until it started raining so […]
Mother’s Day Views of Downtown KCMO at Dusk
Above – at the top of a garage at 9th looking south down Central St. toward the new terminal view of the north side of the Kauffman Center with the Bartle Hall Skystation pylons. Below – in the garage elevator bank looking through the glass with the camera and tripod viewable in the reflection at […]
Cinco de Mayo Fest at Guadalupe Center
A couple shots from Saturday afternoon at the Guadalupe Center for their weekend-long Cinco de Mayo festival. I took shots at the Sly James inauguration picnic at Starlight Theatre, so hopefully I’ll be able to post a couple of those coming soon as well. Above: Looking east down Avenida Cesar Chavez past the Guadalupe Center […]
Protest in Kansas City Against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
On Sunday afternoon at Mill Creek Park on the Plaza in Kansas City, a rally was organized encouraging the protesters in Syria currently being fired upon by government forces of Bashar al-Assad. Press releases were sent to the local KC news stations, but none showed up, backing up my own ongoing question of “what exactly […]
Kauffman Center Lobby Construction Process
Above: The grand lobby, to be known as the Brandmeyer Great Hall undergoing further construction on April 19, looking toward the northwest. Glass railings will take the place of the current makeshift wood railing. Below: The under-floor heating tubes are being installed on the floor of Brandmeyer Hall. Reminder: Photo show tonight at 7 pm […]
Kauffman Center Exterior Close Ups
A couple more shots from my visit to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts construction site on Tuesday – Above – looking southeast with the fisheye lens giving a view toward the Crossroads and Crown Center. Below – facing the front of the building with a view inside the grand lobby, Brandmeyer Great Hall. […]
US Airways Morning Flight
Photo looking out the window of a 6:50 am US Airways flight to Philadelphia taking off Sunday morning a week ago out of Kansas City International, somewhere over the rural Missouri area outside the KC metro, flying toward the sunrise. There’d be less fail in this photo if one of my fingers wasn’t visible in […]
The Kansas City Skyline Scene
I was asked by a local client to try and duplicate a previous photo I took last summer that at the time had more cranes in the foreground working on the Kauffman Center construction. Now there’s a demand for shots with the cranes gone, although one remains in these shots it is not very prominently […]
Counter-Protest of the Westboro Baptist Church
On Saturday night at the Midland Theatre in downtown Kansas City MO there was a pre-screening for the forthcoming film Red State. The barking loons at Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church didn’t care for that too much (they don’t like much of anything really), so they protested across from the theater, while a larger counter-protest took […]
Architectural Structure
Something of the Kauffman Center with my telephoto lens focusing on the cables descending from the south end of the building. I tilted to make the building look straight, which makes the traffic light off balance. Pardon a self-plug, but I’ll also drop mention that a shot of mine from awhile back for AMC Theatres […]
Nelson Atkins Museum in Bad Weather
This was near the end of Sunday February 27, the day that started with profuse fog and ended with thunderstorms that wiped away the snow from the most recent blizzard. Shot looking from Theis Park northward with my telephoto lens as far out as it goes, 400 mm looking north toward the original building to […]
‘Get Gaddafi Gone’ Continues in Kansas City
Because the world should know by now that Muammar Gaddafi is a deranged lunatic who happens to command the forces of an entire economically valuable country (Libya and oil supply fears), Libya has its fair share of upset citizenry owing to Gaddafi’s corruption. By virtue of that, a showing Sunday afternoon of Kansas City’s Libyan […]
Sly James and the Kauffman Center in the same photo
I photographed a fundraiser at Meers Advertising in the Crossroads District for the Sly James campaign for mayor of KCMO. Lucky me I managed to get a photo of Sly and the Kauffman Center in the same shot, though I didn’t notice it until looking at the photo on the computer monitor. First one… And […]
Union Station And The Link’s HVAC Reflections
Yet another fisheye lens photo, and my fifth and final shot from my series of photos taken from inside The Link Skywalk between Union Station and Crown Center on the evening of Saturday February 12th. These kind of visually complicated things under the right lighting are pretty much my favorite things to do with photography. […]
Another Look at the Kauffman Center On-Site
The remainder of my shots from my visit to the Kauffman Center site on January 28th – I was a little upset over my Helzberg Hall ceiling photo below as I was unable to achieve a completely perfect symmetry with the composition. Both shots taken with my fisheye lens. It seems that’s been a popular […]
Sly James Advances to General Mayoral Election
Last night I attended the watch party for Sly James, one of the primary mayoral race contenders in Kansas City, Missouri. Incumbent mayor Mark Funkhouser was unseated as Sly James and Mike Burke were the top two finishers in the primary, advancing to the general election on March 22 for holding the seat of Mayor […]
Protest in Kansas City Against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya
Following up on the revolution in Egypt that resulted in a couple of photoblog postings on my part covering rallies here in Kansas City (One and Two), there is now a great deal of protesting and unrest in Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, enough to bring out the local Libyan community and broader Arab American community in […]