City View From Waterworks Park

KC skyline and Northtown from Water Works Park.   This image is made up of 15 shots... five each to create three and then the three into one panorama.  Nikon D850, Nikon 70-200mm lens at 70mm. ISO 800, F5.6.  The shots below have similar data.

 Above shot was taken with the 70-200mm lens and the 1.4x tele-extender making it an effective 360mm lens.

Skyline

The KC Skyline from Kansas City, Kansas. Nikon D850, Nikon 70-200mm lens. F8, ISO 64, five shots at 1 stop intervals combined into one image. 

Going For Sharp

Decided to head to the river to use every technique I've learned to get sharp images.  Not that I don't normally.  Used focus stacking, polarizer, best aperture, tripod, etc. etc.  All ISO 64.  Boat just happened to come along in the above shot which was 14-24mm lens at F8.

Used focus stacking for the first time ever in this one... five shots with the point of focus moving into the image for each one.  Camera did that work, then the five were imported on layers into Photoshop and aligned and merged.  You can accomplish something similar by using F16 or higher... but you start getting image distortion...

Skyline In Winter

                      Two views of the city in winter...top from Kaw Point, bottom from Northeast.

Skylines

The traditional view of KC looking north from Liberty Memorial 

Dominica

                                        Beautiful young lady who is an aspiring actress.
            Lighting, one beauty dish on the left with translucent cover. Nikon D850, 105mm lens.

The Bridges At LaBenite

                  Hiway 291 Bridges over the Missouri River at Sugar Creek's LaBenite Park.

Brownstone Renewal Ongoing

 The William Chick Scarritt home (1887) continues it's return to glory with new, upper floor, windows.  Special order thermal since they are curved.  Only two panes left to install.  This house has come a long, long way since it burned a year and a half ago.

City View

                           Kansas City skyline from the site of the Scout in Penn Valley Park.

Penn Valley View

Kansas City skyline looking north from Penn Valley Park...be fun to skate on the lake, but you first.

Walking By The Rivers

The Missouri and Kaw Rivers are jammed with ice.. still flowing, but packed.  Went down to see today.  Also saw a Ring-billed gill fishing in the Kaw.  Thanks John Page-Cooper for the bird ID.

 Circling the only portion of open water... he/she descended and grabbed a fish... very graceful flier.

Rivers Of Ice

The Kaw River, foreground, with the Missouri in back.. Shortly after sunset.  Yes, it was cold, very cold...  camera did fine, me, not so much.

Ice Castles

Concourse Fountain in Northeast Kansas City runs all year... When it freezes, it becomes a micro winter wonderland and certainly attracts attention....  Benton Boulevard and St. John Avenue.