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One other shot of the Loretto, this one on the east side of the building, taken within the same few minutes of yesterday's photo of the historic structure in midtown Kansas City.

A look at the venerable old Loretto, at West 39th and Roanoke in midtown Kansas City. Practically on my own doorstep... in a figurative sense at least. When I was a toddler my parents rented a house immediately south of the Loretto, and there's an old photo of me in the back yard there with this building visible in the background. Early 80s it was. Here in the now, I'd woken up from an afternoon nap with the idea in my head to run over to The Loretto and get some shots taken under the "Magic Hour" lighting conditions. So I had just a few minutes to get up and get over there. But getting from 43rd to 39th isn't that big of a challenge.

- photo taken 6:15 pm, Wednesday, 02/03/2010 -

A shot of the various infrastructures connecting northland Kansas City with downtown and the south of the river stuff I'm accustomed to. On Tuesday morning I awoke at such an ungodly and absurd hour - against my will by the way - that even after doing some fun-filled bank reconciliations on the computer in the middle of the night, I was still left restless and with some time to burn before the sun was scheduled to rise that day.

So out I ran toward the Missouri River hoping to find something interesting and decent (I failed epically at that, by the way). I missed the correct lighting I wanted because I was driving around lost again, and I think I'll be keeping away from anywhere near the Missouri River for awhile as I'm starting to get miserable whenever I deal with both it and photography at the same time. That's because of the (useless and non-existent) urban planning methods that went into the road layout just as you cross north of the river. Sometimes I think it's a wonder this city is barely livable at all.

I guess this can serve as my occasional Hatin' On Kansas City post that I have to get out there every once in awhile in order to express my frustrations with it as a native. Carryon.

- photo from Tuesday, 02/02/2010 at 7:20 am -

This is one of my wrap-up shots when I was out Sunday evening at dusk trying to soothe my mind - taken alongside the AMC Mainstreet Threatre at 14th and Main, across from the Hilton Hotel President in the Power and Light District. I thought it was kind of fun since the architectural streetwall is quite visible here and at this angle.

*Sunday, 01/31/2010.

A spot in downtown KC that caught my eye this weekend, between the convention hall and the Power and LIght District. "Not everything is up to date in Kansas City."

If memory serves there are frequent real estate developer attempts to do something useful with this, but they haven't gone anywhere yet.

photo taken Sunday 01/31/2010 at dusk.