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Prom 2009

Blue Bridge Infrastructure

Opening Day at AMC Mainstreet

Team Bucket at the Kansas City AIDS Walk

Westside Cinco de Mayo fest

Easter Egg Hunt of Stafford Kansas

May Day 2009 in Kansas City

Mainstreet Theatre’s Red Carpet opening, with a dog

Dog Walk at the AIDS Walk

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

Tea Party protester

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

Kansas City’s Union Cemetery at sunrise

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

Civil dissent against the Cordish Company - part two

Civil dissent over the Cordish dress code

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

A handsome horse

World Trade Center and Ground Zero - An aerial view

Statue of Liberty - aerial view

The Broadway Bridge at sunset

More ornate bars

Central Park stroll

Midtown Manhattan - big, old, and dense

Above Lower Manhattan

Ornate sunshine

Public art of the River Market

Grayscaling the sunrays

Venus over the Missouri

Downtown store - part two

Goose graze - part two

Downtown KC - Cosentino’s Market

Brush Creek shores

Radio City

Goose graze

Waterfowl frolic

I hope to disorient you

Somewhere in Manhattan

Macintoshes over time

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

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

Wrap it up, grandpa

Dow Jones Market Talk

The sun and sky over New York

Waterfire - Kansas City - pt. five

Empire State, wide

Met ceiling

New York Flatiron

Dusk-time in Brooklyn

Work warshing the windows

Times Square and infrastructure

Fountainous and fisheyed

Times Square intersect

Wall St

Fitting with Tuesday’s election

New York - last Tuesday night

The Manhattan skyline on Halloween night

Waterfire - Kansas City - pt. four

Cloud reflections

Waterfire ‘08 - Kansas City - pt. three

Cops and skyscrapers

Waterfire ‘08 - Kansas City - part one

Fisheye antiquity with a sunset

Kansas City Garment Dist. Architecture

Red brick streetwall of the old city

The crowd turning out for Obama in KC

Nightfall in the West Bottoms

A scene from the Barack Obama rally

Bringing the farm to the city

Tenth & Baltimore - KCMO

Summer sun over the Stafford cemetery

Political leanings with a shroud of HDR

World War One Museum

Horse drawn

Skyline - KCMO style

Protesters HDR’d

5th & Delaware

A collection of talls

Shot sign of the Red Hills

The only World War One museum - a fisheye photo

At the base of Liberty Memorial

West Bottoms at night

St. Louis in July

A duck, again

KCMO, sunrise in the summer

Face of a Ford Focus

The ‘08 Plaza Art Fair

September First Friday

Rural ruination

An alley in downtown St. Louis - fisheye

The Chinese Scene in KC - The Red Dragon

A lone rose of Stafford

Flower pot warning, and the close of my 27th year

Loose Park and summer leafyness

Orange skies above the city

Sun rays as the day winds down

May the dust spots be damned

A notable lack of electronic mail

Looking toward the West Bottoms

The Cattle Committee

Garment District architecture - what’s left of it

Red Hills oil rig

City streets at sunrise

Snailmail in the realm of rurality

Welcome to the Red Hills of Kansas

I dig symmetry

A fisheyed city bus

Streetwall - not fubar’d

Requisite wide angle HDR

National Financial Corporation

Evince catolitico

Lafayette Square’s imperial second

Something or nothing?

Dawn, at bus

Steamrised and sunrisen

And, back to the blog

Urban fisheye towards the sky

A bit of Bell Street bicyclery

Lady duck

A conversion to residential - St. Louis

D’Bronx on Bell

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

Laclede’s Landing of St. Louis

Another look at Kauffman Stadium

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

Cycling still

Rose halls

More street furniture

The dome and the deco

Quality Hill YMCA

A new KC streetscape - w00t!

Antique-ish

Survival statue

Union Cemetery early summer

Kauffman Stadium fisheye

Kansas City’s antique district

Loose Park ornaments

A handsome young duck

Loose Park - Kansas City

HDR applied to fisheye

On the steps of the Nelson

Springtime in the cemetery

The Midland

Attempting to return to photoblogging

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

Celebration at the Station - part 3

Blue building

Celebration at the Station

Oppressed

Meh…

Dense reflection

Union Cemetery

Perched on the shuttlecock

The epicenter

Skyward

Floral looking

Under the bridge again

Residential

Under the bridge

The station, up close

Near Union Station

Flowery

The Plaza in bloom

The Plaza’s west edge

Webster House

May First Friday

Hand held

My stomping grounds

Elevated urban tilt/shift

Whatever, Part II

Art Deco tax collection

A street-level fisheye

Urban tilt-shift

The station sideways

Blooming up

Looking wide

Urban grit and HDR

My first flower post

HDR’d to the Nth degree

Early morning with the skyline

Ominous times

West Bottoms and old density

Crossroads Dist. streetscene

The protest scene

The Dos Hombres streetfront

Against the war

Great city and great weather

The hydrant of the first friday

HDR aerial

A rural post

Looking a bit distressed

In the spirit of the day

Near that riverfront

Dramatic downtown

Another bit of rurality

Frasier

A friend’s feet

Boxcar

Downtown KC streetscape

The big Kansas sky

A city fountain

The Elmdale Trading Post

Scene from the Flint Hills of Kansas

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

The anti-hate sign

Portrait of the newspaper machine

No longer built like this

Parking is not a problem

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

West Bottoms train crossing

Brick dense

Higher than the birds

Arboreal

Trains along the Missouri River

Sunrise in the park

Sunrise fog at Loose Park

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

Bench night scene

Been asleep

Still under construction

North Plaza in the morning

KC Live

Streetscape improvements

The city’s traffic lights

This city looks cold

The umpteenth cityscape

Looking at old houses

Crossroads alley

Ivanhoe: #2

From the Ivanhoe neighborhood

The urban cemetery

A bit dense

Indifferent

Nighttime snow scene

With a bus stop

A reflected sky

Brick piled

You say tomato

The streetfront entrance

I give you… a house

Before the lightening down

The Commercial Cleaner

47th Street looking west

Multi-colored

Dumpster infrastructure

7 A.M.

Renovations

Sunrise, before the lights are turned off

Again from the West Bottoms

An attempt at attractive cargo

Wintertime lens flare

An elevated view

Westside graffiti

Just before the new year began

New Year’s Eve on Broadway

Traffic passing

Before I start a boycott

At the top of the Board of Trade

The rampant brick of the Garment District

The Plaza Lights with some snow

The Drum Room

Beside a Westside church

Just after the sun sat

A mirrored self-portrait

A coherent streetwall

The Westside - next to the Boulevard Brewery

An evening lit up

Trying to capture steam

A frigid desolation

The Hotel President: Glad it wasn’t torn down

Insanity yields results

A streetwall of the River Market

A mallard

The thaw

Delaware Street as the backdrop for a frigid night

What the Downtown Library presents to the street

The evening streetscape

A sunrise scene

Union Cemetery again

47th Street with the Plaza Lights

Scenes from Union Cemetery

As the density gradient heightens

The Plaza Lights around sunset

Another skyline iteration

Washington Square Park

For those who love tall buildings

Urban density

The Plaza interior at sunrise - a wide angle shot

Sunrise with the Plaza Lights

Union Station sitting alone in the fall

Urban neglect Kansas City style

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

Marbled reflection

Allow me to dredge up something, anything

So apparently you people expect a Labor Day photo

Vertigo inducing yet vindicated by a tinge of horizontality

A wanderance through Penn Valley Park

Late summer cloud scenes

St. Louis’ Central West End


Just back from Chicago

West Pennway scenes

July 2007 photo compilation

Further HDR experiments

Skyscraper drama

Views from West Pennway

Another museum post

The Nelson Atkins Museum expansion

Trains at sunrise

Why would a terrorist want to take pictures of this, anyway?

Some industrial grit

Final shot from curb sitting on the Plaza

Pardon me for overdoing the River Market

Dusk scenes from Brookside

The heart of Midtown

A vantage point almost cliched


Midtown dusk

Friday’s crawl

Flag display in Merriam

A little Morocco in Kansas City


More from my recent West Bottoms photo shoot

Standing in a fountain…

A different angle on the Plaza


Another pretty sight from Union Station


Abandoned yet attractive - The West Bottoms

Looking up at KC’s tallest


Kansas City via helicopter

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


Scenes from Kauffman Garden


More from Friday


June ‘07 First Friday


More scenes from Union Station

The bicyclists

Density


Celebration at the Station

Up to date?


Twilight over the Nelson Atkins Museum expansion


Downtown and the Power And Light District


Photogenic Union Hill

Bus lane

As seen from Parkville


From the Liberty Memorial

Banging around

Traffic lights

Plaza sunset

Loose Park and some epic clouds

Rockwellian

Sunrise over Waldo

After the rain

chicken costumes

The first friday in May

A different kind of HDR