One-Hundred Years Young

The Twelfth Street Viaduct was completed in 1915 thus increasing ready access to the West Bottoms.

The City On A Hill

Downtown Glimpses

West Bottoms

Support Your Local Bridge

                         Heart of America Bridge over the Missouri River, illuminated at night.

Night Bridge

                                                       ASB Bridge over the Missouri.

Bush & Gerts, Chicago

Concourse Fountain, Historic Northeast

Langdon Supply Co.

Kansas City West Bottoms, Night

Bond Bridge First Lighting

I was privileged to be riverside as the first set of Bond Bridge lights were turned on for the first time. Each of the cables is illuminated individually with cannon spots. Later on the L.E.D. lights will be turned on along the sides of the deck. Those can be any color and even controlled individually. The Bridge was completed six months early and the Paseo Bridge was retired last Friday. It really is gorgeous. I can see lots of riverside visits in my future. This shot is looking northwest and was taken at 6:15pm. It is seven shots at varying exposures sandwiched for the final product. Nikon D3 was tripod mounted, ASA 1000, Nikon 14-24mm set at 24mm.

I was going to post Part 2 of the Pendleton Heights Holiday Homes Tour tonight, but I will postpone that until tomorrow.

Moon Rise From Kaw Point

Friday night was the last time the moon would be full-full... from now on it will start losing its roundness. Above is the dusk view of the skyline with the relatively newly installed metal sculptures of Lewis and Clark. The Kaw River is on the right and the Missouri is on the left. Both are high and moving fast from all the spring rains.
It's a view that lends itself to black and white as well as color... above and below the skyline just after sunset.

Above...taken at 9:45pm..... the moon rose at 9:44pm and made its first appearance (below) at 10:10... preceded by a decided glow around the building. Fortunately what few clouds there were dissipated before moonrise.

The moon is very bright in relation to its "surroundings" and the only way to get detail in it is to sacrifice outlines and shapes in the buildings.... above is such a shot.
All these shots, except the last one, were taken with the 70-200 f2.8 zoom at F16... I varied only the shutter speed in capturing the images and it ranged from 2 seconds to 8 seconds at ASA 800 on the Nikon D3. A tripod and cable release were used to make sure everything was perfectly steady.


Fiddled with the color balance on the one above. Others are pretty much as seen by the naked eye.

Above shot was taken with same settings as before but using the 24-70mm zoom... it was a parting shot on the way back to the parking lot. The park is easy to find... just take the Lewis and Clark Viaduct (appropriate) west and take the Fairfax exit... then look for a sign on the right with an arrow saying "Kaw Point". You travel through a shipping yard parking lot to get to it... just follow the signs.

Play Misty for Me

Taken around the Concourse in Old Northeast..... cold and dank... but very quiet.....

Rainy Bottoms Evening

West Bottoms After Dark II

Two more shots, one of the "green door building" and one of the 12th Street Viaduct which is undergoing deck repair even as I blog.

West Bottoms After Dark

Still my favorite place to shoot. Whether on my own or doing portraits. There's just something unspoiled about a place that's just beginning to be discovered.

Blues Town

KC looking southwest from Paseo Boulevard.