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Cinco de Mayo - part two

Prom 2009

Blue Bridge Infrastructure

Opening Day at AMC Mainstreet

Team Bucket at the Kansas City AIDS Walk

Westside Cinco de Mayo fest

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

One RAW // Texture overlayed // Shutter: 1/125 // Aperture: f/7.1 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 3200
At my job at the Kansas City Board of Trade, IĀ noticed these old grain review books dating back to before anyone working presently in our building was born. IĀ asked my coworker who’s often busy scanning these old [...]

1920 Kansas City Grain Market Review

The state of Suburban Retail

Mainstreet Theatre interior dome - elevated

The interior dome of AMC Mainstreet - Kansas City

Tea Party protester

A new sheriff at the KCBT

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

Market Reporting Kansas City style

Fire dance at First Friday

Kansas City’s Union Cemetery at sunrise

America and France flying together

Kansas City Mounted Police

April First Friday - KCMO

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

Show-off goose

A Kansas City hub - 13th and Main

Civil dissent against the Cordish Company - part two

Civil dissent over the Cordish dress code

NCAA tournament fans - Sprint Center reflected

The Power and Light District - streetscape scene

The Midland Theater marquee

Kansas City’s workhouse ruins

AMC Empire Theater of Kansas City

The scene from Union Hill

The West Edge under construction

The gurus of the options desk

Lit into the night

Mardi Gras 2009 - Part 4

The Broadway Bridge at sunset

More ornate bars

Mardi Gras 2009 - Part 3

Mardi Gras 2009 - Part 2

Mardi Gras - 2009

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

Goose graze

Waterfowl frolic

Inaugural photo

Color managing January dusk

Archaeology: Repel

Cluelessness, black and white and clueless

2009 Economic Commencement

Tha Plahzuh

366 days prior, but looking the same

Fountain - winter

Plaza lights ‘08 on the bridge and fisheyed

Plaza Lights at dusk - ‘08 version

Wrap it up, grandpa

Outdoor spaces in the Garment Dist.

Waterfire - Kansas City - pt. five

Plaza Lighting Ceremony - ‘08

West Bottoms dusk

Waterfire - Kansas City - pt. four

Cloud reflections

Waterfire ‘08 - Kansas City - pt. three

Cops and skyscrapers

Waterfire - Kansas City - pt. two

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

Political leanings with a shroud of HDR

I can never overstate how awesome ducks are

World War One Museum

Bodily chaos

Horse drawn

Clergy for Obama

Skyline - KCMO style

Samantha

Protesters HDR’d

Youthful protesting

5th & Delaware

A collection of talls

JPC

The only World War One museum - a fisheye photo

Bow tie man

At the base of Liberty Memorial

Ruby

West Bottoms at night

A duck, again

KCMO, sunrise in the summer

Crawling the fragmented city

The ‘08 Plaza Art Fair

Telephotographed from down the street

September First Friday

Two scrapers of Kansas City

The Chinese Scene in KC - The Red Dragon

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

Loose Park and summer leafyness

Orange skies above the city

May the dust spots be damned

Looking toward the West Bottoms

Garment District architecture - what’s left of it

City streets at sunrise

Lord(ess) of the (Brazilian) Dance

I dig symmetry

A fisheyed city bus

Streetwall - not fubar’d

Requisite wide angle HDR

National Financial Corporation

Evince catolitico

Dawn, at bus

Dance of Brazil

Steamrised and sunrisen

And, back to the blog

Urban fisheye towards the sky

Royals lose, but fireworks anyway

A bit of Bell Street bicyclery

Lady duck

D’Bronx on Bell

Jan Marcason & Mary O’Halloran

Bus blur, bur blus, blur bus, blus bur

Settling options at the KCBT

Prospero’s Books

And… it’s a victory

With no air conditioning

Neoclassical

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

a bit infrared

Giants VS Royals

On the way down

Quality Hill YMCA - again

Towards the Missouri

Look at Loose Park

Royals #27

A look skyward and wide

Cycling still

Rose halls

More street furniture

The dome and the deco

Jason Kander for Missouri 44th District

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

Carlos Rosa pitching for the Royals

Kansas City Sky Show

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


June’s first friday

Another station shot

The H&R Block Building

Hope

Union Station - Kansas City MO

A dog named Peaches

Afternoon at the Nelson

Firing cannons

Celebration at the Station - part 3

Blue building

Celebration at the Station

Skateboarding

Oppressed

Union Cemetery

Meh…

Dense reflection

Union Cemetery

Perched on the shuttlecock

The epicenter

Another shot from the Troost Festival…

Skyward

Floral looking

Under the bridge again

Residential

Under the bridge

The station, up close

Near Union Station

Flowery

Troost Festival song

Plaza street art

The Plaza in bloom

The Plaza’s west edge

Webster House

May First Friday

Hand held

My stomping grounds

Scene from the Troost Festival

Elevated urban tilt/shift

Whatever, Part II

Whatever…

Art Deco tax collection

A street-level fisheye

Urban tilt-shift

Girl

The station sideways

Blooming up

It’s about time

Portrait from the street

Peace

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

Protest lounge

A hydrant blurred

Crossroads Dist. streetscene

The protest scene

A mainstay violinist

The Dos Hombres streetfront

Against the war

Great city and great weather

Pondering look

The hydrant of the first friday

HDR aerial

Liberty Memorial night shot

Looking a bit distressed

In the spirit of the day

Near that riverfront

Jeremy

Dramatic downtown

The futures pit

Sunrise over the park

Lady on the street

In the wheat biz

Frasier

A friend’s feet

Downtown KC streetscape

A city fountain

Saturday’s post on Friday

Another traffic light

More fisheye fun

Skyline blurred

Phone booth blurred

Traffic jammed

Fisheye looking wide

The two tallest

Scene from the Big 12 Tournament

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

Bright lights medium sized city

Parking is not a problem

The new streetscape



KC Live - at the Power & Light District

Another sunrise scene

Downtown KC - an aerial view

The doorway scene

Portrait of the pit reporter

The skyline sunrise scene

The sunrise scene

The skateboarding scene

Welcome to March

Power & Light preview

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

Signage: The Drum Room

Sprint Center side

KC Live

Streetscape improvements

The city’s traffic lights

This city looks cold

Before it’s demolished

The umpteenth cityscape

Looking at old houses

A dog I liked

Crossroads alley

Ivanhoe: #2

From the Ivanhoe neighborhood

The urban cemetery

These two characters…

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

American Ice to explore

Ped Bridge

Lampness comes at night

The Commercial Cleaner

47th Street looking west

Next to an Escalade

Multi-colored

Dumpster infrastructure

Western Auto signage

7 A.M.

Renovations

Trainyards and infrastructure

Sunrise, before the lights are turned off

Again from the West Bottoms

An attempt at attractive cargo

Crown Center - never made it during December

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

Streetscape

At the top of the Board of Trade

The rampant brick of the Garment District

The Plaza Lights with some snow

Sunshine with the snow

The Drum Room

Beside a Westside church

A midtown snow scene

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

Those seen at the City Market

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

A street scene from the Plaza

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

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

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

When graffiti is more art than just graffiti

As seen from KCK

West Bottoms storefront scene

Black and white shadows

My late October Kansas City 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

Waterfire cancelled

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

Fashion Week - Kansas City

Gallivanting around downtown KCMO yet again

A busy weekend in KC

Storefronts & buildings of Westport Road

Red Friday in Westport

2nd & Main River Market block party

Scenes from the 18th & Vine Jazz Fest

The Palace Clothing Company - another photo from last week

More from Kansas City’s Waterfire

Waterfire at Brush Creek

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

Deferred maintenance could be the city’s mantra

River Market twilight

Seen from the Garment District

The motion of a UPS truck

River Market continued

The storefronts of the River Market

Back to KC - scenes from downtown

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

The city at 5 am

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

Some industrial grit

Final shot from curb sitting on the Plaza

Curb sitting

Pardon me for overdoing the River Market

Drive by

Photos from the Columbus Park neighborhood

Dusk scenes from Brookside

The heart of Midtown

More Crossroads pictures from Friday

A vantage point almost cliched


Midtown dusk

Friday’s crawl

More construction…

The Power & Light District taking shape

Flag display in Merriam

Attractive parking meters

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


You wouldn’t know this is from Waldo

A bus at dusk


Pendleton Heights - one of the Old Northeast hoods


Another Saturday at the City Market


The photogenic West Edge of the Plaza


Westport Crawfish Block Party


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


From the Liberty Memorial

Banging around

Traffic lights

Plaza sunset

Loose Park and some epic clouds

Rockwellian

Sunrise over Waldo

The Chinese are after me

After the rain

chicken costumes

The first friday in May

Looking up

A different kind of HDR