Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

This is from two or three months back, a scene from the Kansas City Board of Trade. Lately Adam here has taken to backpacking across Lithuania, however word has it he’s coming back to work on Friday. Yes, Friday.

I’ve been remiss in updating the blog here the past three days… I’ve been rather busy processing my backlog of photos from the past three months, so bear with me. Thank you kindly…

One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 2.5 sec. // Aperture: f/18 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 200

In the evening of my first day in St. Louis last week, I concluded the day’s photography with some streetscapes from Laclede’s Landing - an old district of midrise brick buildings - what’s left of it anyway. The place seemed to have elements of Kansas City’s River Market and elements of Kansas City’s Westport - but just a little.

I’ve surmised that the St. Louis locals keep away from the place due to the simultaneous tourist/fratty onslaught - or so I’ve gathered. The built environment of the place just looks awesome though.

One handheld RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/160 // Aperture: f/10 // Focal Length: 15 mm // ISO 1250

I’m turning attention back to some Kansas City photos here for a bit - this is Kauffman Stadium back in June.

I’m going to be spending the next few days busy with editing my remaining St. Louis photos, as well as going back to finish sifting through three months of KC stuff I’ve yet to process.

Three tripod mounted RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/16 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 160

… a weekend scene from the West End, St. Louis MO.

I’ll be having an exhibition of my photos at Third Eye Productions in the Crossroads area by the Freighthouse for August First Friday. Come by if you like. I’m busy lately preparing for it.

One handheld RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/400 // Aperture: f/9.0 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 320

So, I’m pretty excited about a lot of these photos I took last weekend, cross-Missouri. So here’s another.

Incidentally, I took this from the top of a downtown St. Louis parking garage. When exiting at the street level, garage workers took notice of my camera and lens and claimed that “cameras are not allowed” in the garage. Now, I understand these people were probably the working poor, at whim to their college-educated corporate overlords - overlords who, with their comb-overs and sycophantic yearnings to impress their superiors, decide that to look “proactive,” they will make a baseless claim against photography, as if their stupid parking garage is so vital to national security interests that Osama bin Laden would draw his attack blueprints from the photos after I post them to the Internet.

It’s the same idiocy that makes the security guards in downtown Kansas City claim that one cannot take photos at the base of One Kansas City Place - the tallest bloody building in the state that can be seen for miles and miles. But as I said, photographers are scapegoated and criminalized by small-minded managerial types who lack a basic grasp of logic. If the government and the corporations don’t want their buildings photographed, then they should be under ground.

Now back to regularly scheduled programming.

One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/2 sec // Aperture: f/13 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 250

This is a limo turning a streetcorner with a partially long shutter opening - the Central West End area of St. Louis City this past weekend.

Three tripod mounted RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/14 // Focal Length: 32 mm // ISO 640

This site may become a St. Louis photoblog, temporarily at least. I spent a long weekend on the other side of Missouri, hopping around St. Louis City grabbing urban cityscape shots at a frenetic pace. The heat and humidity of July made me sweat profusely, and I ended up with three blisters on my feet. But whatever; no pain no gain like they say - and I’m very pleased with the shots I captured.

One handheld RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/500 // Aperture: f/9.0 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 200

…one of my shots taken a week or two back in downtown KCMO.

I’m in St. Louis through Sunday, taking photos just for the fun of it.

One handheld RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/200 // Aperture: f/13 // Focal Length: 200 mm // ISO 200

This is look northward from a parking garage in the north loop of downtown KCMO. A bit of the Missouri River and some industrial yards lie in the distance.

I’m off to trek across the state of Missouri now, but I’ll be updating this site each day anyway, so stay tuned.

Three handheld RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/9.0 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 200

This is a Loose Park rose garden scene. I’ve been trying on and off lately to get this lens flare emanating from the sun in HDR with at least a moderately narrow aperture - kinda worked here.