Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

Above: One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 0.8 sec. // Aperture: f/12.9// Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 400

Above: One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 15 sec. // Aperture: f/16 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 100

Above: Shutter: 30 sec. // Aperture: f/16 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 160

I hope everyone can digest the notion of me posting three photos at once instead of the usual one photo.

I went to the block party type thing this evening that celebrates the opening of the Power & Light District in downtown KCMO. In the heart of the development is a canopied block of bars and restaurants. It’s momentous because of the fact that up until about three years ago, the site this development sits on was a vast, blighted parking lagoon of decay and abandonment. Kansas City has always had the potential to be magnificent, but because of some odd complex pervading the city’s collective psyche, it eviscerated and FUBAR’d itself into near terminal oblivion for decades. So, one can’t help but think that it’s kind of nice to actually see human bodies present downtown after 5 PM when the office workers drive home to their suburbs.

I snapped about two hundred shots tonight in all the collective giddiness, although with the lingering cold weather, there wasn’t all that great of a turnout compared to the crowd I was expecting tonight. All in all, I’m damn glad this thing is nearly complete.