"Chief's Kingdom" - Kansas City - 2020
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The Kansas City Chiefs become Super Bowl LIV Champions in 2020. It's been 50 years since that feat was achieved just once before. If you've never experienced 800,000 excited fans all in one place at one time, it is something to see. Years of planning and hard work on the part of the owners, management, coaches and players finally paid off. At the same time fans never gave up. The celebration was a long time coming!
"Borchers' Bridge No. 2" - Parkville, Missouri - 2019
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This image was captured here in the bluffs of the Missouri River which is prevalent in my hometown of Parkville, Missouri. It stands as a treasure in our neighborhood connecting paths on both sides of the creek. Now, though, the bridge rests quietly awaiting the greening of the spring.
Remarkably, this photo is presented in full color! The true colors are represented clearly. I invite you to enlarge the image to view it more closely. You can do this by clicking right on the image where it will take you to my website.
For you photographers, the image was captured with ISO 100, 1/100 second at f/9.0. It was fairly early in the morning with an ice haze in the air which created a nice backdrop.
"Union Station No. 2 - Kansas City - 2019
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Taken in the fall of the year, Union Station proudly displays the Kansas City Chiefs banners.
"KC Skyline" - Kansas City - 2018
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This photograph was captured from the location of Lewis and Clark's encampment on June 26, 1804. It was taken at 10:04 PM on June 27, 2018 which coincidentally is one of the rare times when the full moon rises during twilight hours over Kansas City looking from that location. This would have been the view they had with the moon, but minus the buildings. What would they have thought of this view had they been able to time travel to present day!
"Union Station" - Kansas City - 2018
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Kansas City Union Station opened in 1914, serving Kansas City, Missouri and the surrounding metropolitan area. It replaced a small Union Depot from 1878. Union Station served a peak annual passenger traffic of over 670,000 in 1945 at the end of World War II, declining in the 1950s and was closed in 1985.
In 1996, a public/private partnership began funding Union Station's $250 million restoration. By 1999, the station reopened as a series of museums and other public attractions. In 2002, Union Station saw its return as a train station when Amtrak began providing public transportation services and has since become Missouri's second-busiest train station. As of 2010, the refurbished station boasts theaters, ongoing museum exhibits, and attractions such as the Science City at Union Station, the Irish Museum and Cultural Center, and the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity.
"Mackay Hall" - Park University, Parkville, MO - 2018
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Mackay Building, also known as Mackay Hall, is a historic building located on the campus of Park University. It was built in 1886, and is a three-story, rock-faced limestone structure with Richardsonian Romanesque, High Victorian Gothic and Cheateauesque style design elements. It measures approximately 137 feet by 84 feet. It features a clock tower with tall spire rising in stages from a semi-detached central block, textured wall surfaces, complex roofs and towers, wall dormers and asymmetrical bays.
"Liberty Tower" - 2018
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Liberty Tower rises 265 feet above the ground and is part of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City. The complex is known simply as the Liberty Memorial. Opening in 1926, the Art Deco design has proven to be timeless.
The declared mission of the museum and memorial is to be "dedicated to remembering, interpreting and understanding the Great War and its enduring impact on the global community.
Visitors enter the facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 red poppies, each one representing 1,000 combatant deaths.
"Liberty Memorial No. 1" - Kansas City
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The National World War I Museum and Memorial of the United States. It was opened to the public as the Liberty Memorial museum in 1926, it was designated in 2004 by the United States Congress as America's official museum dedicated to World War I. The museum reopened to the public in December 2006 with an expanded, award-winning facility to exhibit an artifact collection that began in 1920. The National World War I Museum tells the story of the Great War and related global events from their origins before 1914 through the 1918 armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the exhibit space within the 32,000-square-foot facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 red poppies, each one representing 1,000 combatant deaths.
"Liberty Memorial No. 2" - Kansas City - 2019
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The Liberty Memorial, one of Kansas City’s most recognizable landmarks, is the only major memorial and museum in the United States dedicated to World War I. This image clearly shows the eternal flame at the top. The flame is created by shining lights on released steam.
"Liberty Memorial Sphinxes" - Kansas City - 2019
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The two Egyptian Revival winged sphinx statues, "Memory" and "Future" are highly symbolic, and massive. At 12 feet long, 15 feet wide and 15 feet long, they dominate the south entry into the memorial.
The sphinxes face each other, looking in opposite directions. Sphinx "Memory" looks east, towards the past and the European Continent, so recently convulsed by war. Her wings cover her face, hiding it from the horrors of that conflict.
Sphinx "Future" faces west, away from Europe and toward the future. Her wings also cover her face, since the future cannot be seen.
"Scout" - Kansas City - 2018
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The Scout is a famous statue by Cyrus E. Dallin in Kansas City, Missouri. It is more than 10 feet tall, and depicts a Sioux Indian on horseback surveying the landscape. The Scout was conceived by Dallin in 1910, and exhibited at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, where it won a gold medal. On its way back east, the statue was installed on a temporary basis in Penn Valley Park. The statue proved so popular that $15,000 in nickels and dimes was raised to purchase it through a campaign called "The Kids of Kansas City." The statue was dedicated in 1922 as a permanent memorial to local Indian tribes. It is currently located east of Southwest Trafficway in Penn Valley Park, which is south of downtown Kansas City.
"Western Auto Building" - Kansas City - 2018
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The Western Auto Building, also known as the Coca-Cola Building or the Candler Building, is located at 2107 Grand Boulevard in the Crossroads district.
The twelve-story building was designed by Arthur C. Tufts & Co. and built by the Swenson Construction Company, for the Coca-Cola Company in 1914. The plat of land, originally purchased in 1913, was triangular, which gave the 12-story building its distinctive shape. The building was built in the commercial style, a more utilitarian style than was typical of contemporary architecture.
It later was the headquarters of the Western Auto Supply Company, whose multi-story lighted sign still tops the building. The building and its sign are visible from much of the Crossroads and the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as to drivers on Interstate 35. This visibility, together with the structure's longevity, has made the Western Auto Building a city landmark. The sign was relit on July 13, 2018 at 8:45pm Central time, having been refurbished with funding from the current condo association.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and is now a loft condominium.
"Kansas City Twilight" - Kansas City - 2018
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A full moon rises over the city as evening falls. Taken from KAW Point where Lewis and Clark encamped at the convergence of the KAW River and Missouri River.
"Full Moon" - Kansas City - 2018
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"Gateway Arch - Study 1" - St. Louis - 2018
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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States and officially dedicated to "the American people," it is the centerpiece of the Gateway Arch National Park and has become an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis
"Gateway Arch - Study 2" - St. Louis - 2018
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Same caption as Study 1. This taken from the north reflecting pond near the arch.
"Gateway Arch - Study 3" - St. Louis - 2018
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Same caption as Study 1. This view is the park view.