June, 2009

Another train crossing shot from the West Bottoms a few weeks back. I found that the less I meddled with this photo in the processing the better it came out.

Reminder for the Kansas City people: My First Friday show is this coming Friday, June 5th at Third Eye in the Crossroads Dist. near the Freighthouse, about 20th and Baltimore, KCMO, 64108.

This has been sitting on my hard drives for a few weeks - taken from the top of a downtown KC parking garage - incidentally the same garage used by a bank I worked for in 2005. Ugh.

And, this is the last you'll have to hear about it - my big First Friday photo show is tonight at Third Eye, KCMO.

I'll begin having work shown routinely at a new place called The Hook, in Westport - where I'll now have some studio space. We'll likely be getting some stuff in there just as soon as the Third Eye show concludes. Appropriate since Westport/West Plaza is kind of my longtime stomping ground in KCMO. I'll even be able to walk there from home when I feel like it.

Monday morning at AM civil twilight on June 8th. I had awoke rather early and in ambitious spirits, and having noticed that we were in for some fun times with the sunrise clouds owing to the overnight storms, out I went. I figured once again it had been a few months since I'd done shots at the base of the Liberty Memorial, so there I went.

It looks like the grounds have been cleaned up very promptly after all the festivities that have been going on. The Pride Festival had been happening there this past weekend, not to mention the Memorial Day concert on site (along with Union Station) two weeks ago.

What with preparing for the show at Third Eye, I've had little time to gather new shots, which is kind of unfortunate as there's been a lot going on. There were zombies in the streets of the Crossroads on Friday while I was indoors minding my gallery, and there was an outdoor runway fashion show of some sort at 18th and Wyandotte as well on Saturday. But it's been good to take a bit of a respite from my usual.... routine of running around photographing, although I start to miss it sorely if I go too many days without it. Moreso than usual this past weekend after Friday was done, I tended to my cardiovascular maintenance to a nearly excessive degree - but everything is back to normal now.

A shot I grabbed from the evening of Tuesday June 9th. You might recall nineteen days prior to the taking of this shot I had taken a very similar one also. A freelance project brought me back to this little bridge section between Truman Road and the underpass of the Interstate highways cutting through downtown KC, and again I couldn't keep away from doing something very "focally widened" involving the Suicide Prevention Fence and the background of things leading into the downtown loop of KCMO.