Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 5.0 sec // Aperture: f/22 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 160

Earlier this month the new downtown Cosentino’s grocery store opened in downtown Kansas City, which means basic necessities can now be procured downtown for the first time in possibly 30 years.

I thought it was definitely a good sign also that I saw a high-school aged kid or two bagging groceries when I went inside. Only for the reason that very young people carrying out their first part time jobs for spending money among the tallest skyscrapers in the state seems superficially at least to give the idea that the city’s Twentieth Century Crumble has passed. When I did the grocery cashiering/bagging thing in high school (about eleven years ago I think) it was at the Sun Fresh low density design abomination in Westport. Anyway, I’m just saying that kids just entering the work force in part time jobs should also be afforded the option of working in places with sound urban design elements, which has kind of been absent from here and probably a lot of the midwest for a long time.

Anyway, the whole evening getting these photos felt like a fiasco. The tripod head I bought in December turns out to be useless for extreme tilting backward - as is required when surrounded by tall buildings. In fact I find it kind of an outrage that a damned tripod head would be sold with such limitations (and no it wasn’t a cheap tripod head either).  Then after getting home I was sitting here at the computer when a power surge struck, which first sent the computer’s fans all wild until I performed my surgical skills, and simultaneously the Lightroom catalog became corrupted - meaning I was locked out of all of my photos on the computer. That’s just great. But I managed a backup off the external drive on the floor and got it all back. It was all more about my heart skipping a few beats when I saw I was the catalog had been corrupted. All’s good now though.