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Photos from Saturday evening in the Crossroads after taking the Roasterie airplane photos posted yesterday – Kansas City, MO.
MAX bus shelter across from the Kauffman Center:
Webster House and the Kauffman Center:
After turning around…
I climbed a chain link fence, tearing up my jeans and underwear, to get these rooftop skyline shots from along Baltimore:
View of the Kauffman Center’s southeast side from the roof of the one-story building on Baltimore St:
Artistic guardrails over the highway along Wyandotte Street across from the Convention Center Ballroom:
North side of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts from the Convention Center:
View toward Crown Center from the Convention Center:
I thought this would be a new and maybe interesting place for angles on the city. I might have been wrong as this part of downtown Kansas City is one urban planning blunder after another, but I tried to make something decent looking from it. There are weeds growing out of the sidewalks and a huge parking lot at 20th, and a desolate feeling as there’s mostly nothing around but office uses, at least south up the hill on McGee. When you get north toward 20th there’s just too much parking to have much of a real city there until you move up to about 19th. There are all kinds of holes the 20th Century left in this city still needing to be patched.
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 and the Crossroads from Liberty Memorial –
View of Switzer School/West Junior High on Summit Street in the West Side, taken from Liberty Memorial –
Union Station waiting hall –
Pedestrian bridge between Union Station and Freighthouse –
Union Station exterior up close –
Highway loop and intersections along Truman Road downtown –
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.
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 evening more bearable for everyone.
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 Wyandotte during First Fridays in the warm weather months.
Crossroads District at dusk
Photo taken Tuesday evening, Sept. 7, 2010 a little after 8 pm. About three weeks ago I went to the south end of the Convention Center Ballroom and took this photo of the Kauffman Center construction, and noticed then a view toward Crown Center would be interesting too with the lighting at dusk, and my telephoto lens pointed toward Crown Center instead of my wide angle lens for the Kauffman Center. And speaking of the Kauffman Center, I did end up taking another shot of it as well that I’ll probably post in a day or two.
Back on July 24th was the Worldwide Photowalk Day – there were two in Kansas City, one in the morning and one in the evening starting in the Crossroads area. I took this one around the beginning of the evening, looking westward with some geometries of part of the pedestrian bridge across the train tracks.