Early Spring On The River

View from a sand bar on the Missouri River of Downtown Kansas City. 

Spring Thaw 2015

              Out on a sand bar early last March on the Missouri next to the old River Front Park.

Sunset

                            Looking west from Kessler Park next to The Kansas City Museum.

Fall Skyline

Kansas City skyline from Kessler Park in Northeast KC.

Kaw Point Noir

Kaw point, center, with the Missouri River on the left and the Kaw River on the right.  Kansas City skyline in the center.  Cottonwoods in the foreground.  Below, same general view treeless. Lewis and Clark camped just a quarter mile to the left in this picture on their way west and their way back east.

The View From The Top...

......the top of the Kansas City Museum, Corinthian Hall.   On a bright Spring day several years back.

Shadows, Kessler Park

                       End of day with the Kansas City skyline barely visible in the background.

Winter's Last Gasp

Kaw Point

Sunset Kaw Point

Sunset From Northeast

Down By The River

Under the Moon

                          These were taken last night from Strawberry Hill in Kansas City, Kansas....

Infrared

Experimented with infrared photography today.  Read online where the Nikon D800 was not usable for same, but then Roy Inman found an article online that said otherwise.  Otherwise is correct.  My IR filter is 67mm and I currently have no lenses of that diameter... so, had to hold the filter in front of my 50mm lens.   Works but not optimal.  I had forgotten how difficult IR can be.   Above, Indian Mound, below, the KC skyline from Kessler Park. 

Ville Noir

KC once again from Kaw Point.

Big Sky

                                                  Kansas City skyline from Kessler Park.

Monuments

Dedicated in 1877 Mount Saint Marys' Cemetery is the final resting place for many of Kansas City's founders.  St. Francis Regis was the first Catholic Church in Kansas City, located near where the present day Cathedral stands.  Those interned in it's graveyard were moved to MSM after it's dedicated.  The shot above I call Monuments as it incorporates man's tributes to both the quick and the dead. 

I want to thank Father Joseph Totton for telling me about this photo opportunity!!!!!

                                 Above, a veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg and a fireman.

                Above reads, "Erected to the memory of Charles Kane by his Mother Ellen Kane

                                                    Above and below, resting place of nuns.

A Walk In Black And White

Strolled along the Missouri today from Chouteau Traffic Way to Riverfront Park.  Above, view from the Park, below, the old Chouteau bridge support viewed through the new.

                             Above, under the new bridge, below, what's left of the old bridge.

Rivers of Ice

Kansas City from Kaw Point with the iced-up Missouri River.  The river is flowing along as usual just with chunks of ice.   Below, the Kaw flowing into the Missouri.  Kaw surface is more frozen, water flowing underneath.