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My New York photo set is up

Blue Bridge Infrastructure

Opening Day at AMC Mainstreet

Downtown’s Davis Park looking westward

The state of Suburban Retail

Stafford Kansas silo at sunrise

Mainstreet Theatre interior dome - elevated

The interior dome of AMC Mainstreet - Kansas City

Stafford Kansas with a cloudy sunrise

Kansas City’s Garment District downtown

A protest is a protest

Light itself as public art

Westport Rd and half of a 300C

AMC Mainstreet Theatre

Sunrays at sunset

Sunrisen snow at the end of March

America and France flying together

April First Friday - KCMO

Above Midtown Manhattan

Kansas City’s Westport Road spring dusk

The end of Sunday

My own triplicate self visage

The vaudeville resurrection - Kansas City’s AMC Mainstreet Theatre

A Kansas City hub - 13th and Main

NCAA tournament fans - Sprint Center reflected

A level plane with the skyline of Lower Manhattan

The Power and Light District - streetscape scene

The Midland Theater marquee

Kansas City’s workhouse ruins

AMC Empire Theater of Kansas City

Manhattan and Empire State aerial

The scene from Union Hill

The West Edge under construction

Lit into the night

First I’ll take Manhattan and then I’ll take an aerial

World Trade Center and Ground Zero - An aerial view

Statue of Liberty - aerial view

The Broadway Bridge at sunset

More ornate bars

Midtown Manhattan - big, old, and dense

Above Lower Manhattan

Ornate sunshine

Public art of the River Market

Grayscaling the sunrays

Downtown store - part two

Goose graze - part two

Downtown KC - Cosentino’s Market

Brush Creek shores

Radio City

Goose graze

I hope to disorient you

Somewhere in Manhattan

Inaugural photo

Color managing January dusk

Fish eyed, blue skied

Archaeology: Repel

Cluelessness, black and white and clueless

New York - Columbus Circle in a trinary star system

2009 Economic Commencement

Tha Plahzuh

366 days prior, but looking the same

Brooklyn Bridge aerial + infrastructure

Above Fifth Avenue - New York aerial

Fountain - winter

The Brooklyn Bridge looks the same every year

Plaza lights ‘08 on the bridge and fisheyed

Plaza Lights at dusk - ‘08 version

Grand Central Station

New York noir

Dow Jones Market Talk

Outdoor spaces in the Garment Dist.

The sun and sky over New York

Waterfire - Kansas City - pt. five

Plaza Lighting Ceremony - ‘08

Empire State, wide

Met ceiling

New York Flatiron

Work warshing the windows

Times Square and infrastructure

Fountainous and fisheyed

Midtown Manhattan density

Times Square intersect

Wall St

Manhattan afternoon

Fitting with Tuesday’s election

New York - last Tuesday night

The Manhattan skyline on Halloween night

West Bottoms dusk

Cloud reflections

Waterfire ‘08 - Kansas City - pt. three

Fisheye antiquity with a sunset

Kansas City Garment Dist. Architecture

Red brick streetwall of the old city

Nightfall in the West Bottoms

A scene from the Barack Obama rally

Tenth & Baltimore - KCMO

World War One Museum

5th & Delaware

A collection of talls

The only World War One museum - a fisheye photo

At the base of Liberty Memorial

West Bottoms at night

St. Louis in July

KCMO, sunrise in the summer

Rural ruination

Two scrapers of Kansas City

An alley in downtown St. Louis - fisheye

The Chinese Scene in KC - The Red Dragon

A scene from the dawn of summer, as it now fades

May the dust spots be damned

Looking toward the West Bottoms

Garment District architecture - what’s left of it

City streets at sunrise

I dig symmetry

Streetwall - not fubar’d

Requisite wide angle HDR

National Financial Corporation

Evince catolitico

Lafayette Square’s imperial second

Saint Louis, tall buildings and a setting sun

Wide and high

Steamrised and sunrisen

And, back to the blog

Urban fisheye towards the sky

A bit of Bell Street bicyclery

A conversion to residential - St. Louis

D’Bronx on Bell

Angled wide, and near St. Louis University

It looks awfully green

Nelson Atkins museum fisheye

Laclede’s Landing

Bus blur, bur blus, blur bus, blus bur

Remnants of the Second Empire

Prospero’s Books

With no air conditioning

Neoclassical

After-the-show, and a peek at the Power and Light Building

Washington Avenue - St. Louis

a bit infrared

A city at sunset

Saint Louis industrial

Downtown St. Louis fisheye

Laclede’s Landing of St. Louis

Nightfall and nightlife

Giddy for more STL photos

St. Louis and a turning limosuine

Saint Louis skyline at dusk

Quality Hill YMCA - again

Towards the Missouri

Look at Loose Park

A look skyward and wide

Rose halls

More street furniture

The dome and the deco

Quality Hill YMCA

A new KC streetscape - w00t!

Antique-ish

Kansas City’s antique district

HDR applied to fisheye

On the steps of the Nelson

Springtime in the cemetery

The Midland

One handheld RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/50 // Aperture: f/14 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 100
The last 24 hours or so have been odd. It was the First Friday event in the Crossroads District again, and I went really just because if I can get one or two interesting photographs from the [...]

June’s first friday

Another station shot

The H&R Block Building

Union Station - Kansas City MO

Afternoon at the Nelson

Blue building

Celebration at the Station

Oppressed

Meh…

Dense reflection

The epicenter

Skyward

Under the bridge again

Residential

Under the bridge

The station, up close

Near Union Station

The Plaza’s west edge

Webster House

May First Friday

My stomping grounds

Elevated urban tilt/shift

Whatever…

Art Deco tax collection

A street-level fisheye

Urban tilt-shift

The station sideways

Blooming up

Looking wide

Urban grit and HDR

HDR’d to the Nth degree

Early morning with the skyline

Ominous times

West Bottoms and old density

The Dos Hombres streetfront

HDR aerial

Liberty Memorial night shot

Dramatic downtown

Downtown KC streetscape

Saturday’s post on Friday

More fisheye fun

Skyline blurred

Fisheye looking wide

The two tallest

Fisheye looking high

Fisheye fun and Kansas City’s oldest highrise

The skyline sideways

Antiquity

No longer built like this

Bright lights medium sized city

The new streetscape



KC Live - at the Power & Light District

Downtown KC - an aerial view

The doorway scene

The skyline sunrise scene

Welcome to March

Power & Light preview

Brick dense

Higher than the birds

Hyde Park streetscape

Missouri with Kansas next door

Downtown aerial

The expanse

Liberty Memorial aerial

Garage stairs

Kansas City elevated

The Kansas City Streetwall

An evening with the skystations

Plaza Lights final weekend

North Plaza in the morning

Signage: The Drum Room

Sprint Center side

KC Live

The city’s traffic lights

This city looks cold

Before it’s demolished

The umpteenth cityscape

Looking at old houses

Ivanhoe: #2

From the Ivanhoe neighborhood

A bit dense

Indifferent

Nighttime snow scene

With a bus stop

A reflected sky

You say tomato

The streetfront entrance

I give you… a house

Before the lightening down

American Ice to explore

Ped Bridge

Multi-colored

Dumpster infrastructure

Western Auto signage

7 A.M.

Renovations

Trainyards and infrastructure

Sunrise, before the lights are turned off

An attempt at attractive cargo

An elevated view

Just before the new year began

New Year’s Eve on Broadway

Traffic passing

Before I start a boycott

The rampant brick of the Garment District

The Drum Room

Beside a Westside church

Just after the sun sat

A coherent streetwall

The Westside - next to the Boulevard Brewery

An evening lit up

A frigid desolation

The Hotel President: Glad it wasn’t torn down

Insanity yields results

A streetwall of the River Market

Delaware Street as the backdrop for a frigid night

What the Downtown Library presents to the street

The evening streetscape

A sunrise scene

47th Street with the Plaza Lights

As the density gradient heightens

The Plaza Lights around sunset

A street scene from the Plaza

Another skyline iteration

For those who love tall buildings

Urban density

The Plaza interior at sunrise - a wide angle shot

Sunrise with the Plaza Lights

I’ve gone and buggered up my site again + Plaza lights and a street scene

Union Station sitting alone in the fall

The Kansas City skyline never gets old

Photos - Kansas City Plaza Lighting Ceremony 2007

A scene from Quality Hill, downtown

A West Bottoms nighttime scene

Looking toward Crown Center

A look at the new - Power and Light District

Kind of like a painting

As seen from KCK

West Bottoms storefront scene

Wichita photos

Some bridge…

HDR works great for architecture

The Library District from atop a garage

West Bottoms bridges

Western Auto signage of Ye Olde Times

Freighthouse street scenes

Freighthouse architecture

Photos from the opening of the Sprint Center arena

Inside the Power & Light District

1 AM with the Garment District

All over Kansas City - one late night

KCK - The Legends at Village West

Gallivanting around downtown KCMO yet again

Storefronts & buildings of Westport Road

Parting shots from Chicago in August

Scenes from the 18th & Vine Jazz Fest

The Palace Clothing Company - another photo from last week

Waterfire at Brush Creek

Marbled reflection

Allow me to dredge up something, anything

Vertigo inducing yet vindicated by a tinge of horizontality

Late summer cloud scenes

River Market twilight


Just back from Chicago

Seen from the Garment District

River Market continued

The storefronts of the River Market

Back to KC - scenes from downtown

July 2007 photo compilation

Further HDR experiments

Skyscraper drama

Views from West Pennway

Another museum post

The Nelson Atkins Museum expansion

The city at 5 am

Final shot from curb sitting on the Plaza

Curb sitting

Pardon me for overdoing the River Market

Photos from the Columbus Park neighborhood

Dusk scenes from Brookside

The heart of Midtown

A vantage point almost cliched


Midtown dusk

Friday’s crawl

More construction…

The Power & Light District taking shape

A little Morocco in Kansas City


More from my recent West Bottoms photo shoot

Standing in a fountain…

A different angle on the Plaza


What to do when the power is out


Another pretty sight from Union Station


Abandoned yet attractive - The West Bottoms

Looking up at KC’s tallest


Kansas City via helicopter


Blocked views

Inside Union Station


Pendleton Heights - one of the Old Northeast hoods


Another Saturday at the City Market


The photogenic West Edge of the Plaza


The Nelson Atkins Museum and some pretty clouds


More from Friday


June ‘07 First Friday


More scenes from Union Station

The bicyclists

Density


Celebration at the Station


Twilight over the Nelson Atkins Museum expansion


Downtown and the Power And Light District


Photogenic Union Hill

As seen from Parkville


From the Liberty Memorial

Traffic lights

Plaza sunset

Rockwellian

Sunrise over Waldo

After the rain

Looking up

A different kind of HDR