after the Spring rain

On the Country Club Plaza, early May this year at sunset.

Spring sunset

I saw this while driving by and was immediately reminded of the houses with shadows of Winslow Homer.

Spring green

Shot at Smithville Lake just off 169 Highway in early May.

early alium

Shot at a some longtime friend's home in Waldo in early May.

BRIGHT EYES

Shot last March in Midtown, of course, the Valentine area.  The venerable Uptown Theater.  I saw Nickel Creek here a few years ago and loved it, of course--the music, performers, theater, everything.  The worst seat in the house is still good.

Plaza Spring

For anyone who's followed here, you'll know I was walking on the Plaza with a friend at the beginning of May after a Spring rain and saw this tree.  I had to get to the car, get my camera and shoot it.  I love getting shots of Spring rain on flowers and leaves.

yellow

I shot this, too, at the longtime friend's home in their garden in Waldo in early May.

Daisy

Waldo, early May, at friend's home.

last light

Sunset on our Plaza last Spring.

Church with thunderhead

 

I was coming up out of the Plaza on Main Street and saw this huge thunderhead forming and then Visitation Catholic Church came into view. I immediately knew I wanted to stop and see if I could incorporate the two into a shot. This is what I got. I think it worked. There was a lot more to the building clouds but you work with what you got, for sure. (Sat., June 18, about 7:30 PM)

complimentary

Walking on the Plaza at the beginning of May, I saw this tree after a rather soft, Spring rain.  Between the different shades of red and the greens and then the late day sun shining on it at a fairly straight angle, from the West, I liked how it looked.   

Happy Father's Day

 

I shot this just this week--last Thursday evening on the way home. It's from Smithville Lake. I wasn't looking for anything with a Father's Day theme especially--honest. I just saw this, liked it and shot. Anyway, again, happy Father's Day out there to all the Dads.

setting moon, KCK

I shot this from the Broadway Bridge in early May on the way home.  It's looking into Kansas City, Kansas, of course.  I've found I can get some pretty reliable shots heading North like this at times, at sunset.

KU Spring

Again, from early May on KU's campus this Spring.  This was just outside the bookstore.

sun-dappled Spring

Early May, near Blue Springs in friend's garden.

climatis

Shot at another friend's home--again in early May--this time out near Blue Springs.

Spring white

I found these just off the Plaza, mid-May, during a soft Spring rain.

Spring rain

I shot this last month, on a Thursday evening on Cinco de Mayo after a Spring rain.   I learned shooting rain on flowers and leaves, especially in Spring, can make for great shots.  I think so, anyway.  This was on the Plaza.  I love these trees.

Spring on KU campus

I was on KU's campus in early May and caught this.  Flowers in general but Spring flowers, in particular, make photography easier, for sure.

Sunset at Jack's

Good food.  Nice place.  Great revamp of a building, too.  Great save.

impromptu paperweight

While at the Brookside Art Fair this year--a couple weeks ago--I went by a bank's booth (Midwest Bank, I believe) and they had a few great rocks on some papers--handouts--as paperweights.  I saw this one and loved it immediately.  The rock itself is terrific but the contrast of it on this white background was, I thought, really wonderful.  Anyway, it isn't the first time I photographed rocks in Brookside.  The young ladies had picked this up from the nearby rock garden to hold down their papers.  Great serendipity and contrast.

Sunday morning

Westport

TENANTS PARKING

I saw this in Westport one Sunday morning last month.  I immediately liked the red, for starters, but also the textures.

Winter sunset

I shot this on the way home, going along I-70 this past March.  I loved the way the clouds obscured much of the sunset but let this much through and shaped it.

architecture as sculpture

The Bloch Gallery at the Nelson, of course.  I love this building.  Sure, it's best at dusk and after, when lit but during the day, it still shows very well, for sure.

the photography class

This is surely some photography class I found doing their work on the South lawn of the Nelson this past early April.  I don't know if they're with the Art Institute or what--I imagine they are.  I liked how this shot came out--a photograph of the photographers.

Spring shed II

Near the house this last Spring, March, as the Earth was waking up.

bottomland

Shot--you guessed it--on the way to work.  It's along 291 highway, just North of Independence.  I love shooting river bottomland, especially when you can get a backdrop of hills seemingly shooting straight up.  Also, I loved how isolated this little shack is.  I'd love to know the story behind it--why it's there, who built it.  I'm sure it was/is for business.

Brookside brilliance

I was dog- and house-sitting last week in Brookside again.  Whenever I do, whatever the month, I always walk the neighborhood and shoot what I can.  With all the gardens and flowers and sunsets, it makes it easy to find things to shoot.