Fun Day at Work!

Yesterday, I needed to get on the roof of the building across the street to get photos of the new Federal Courthouse in Jefferson City.  That roof across the street is on the grounds of the decommissioned Missouri State Penitentiary.  These are touristy snapshots I grabbed while making our way through the complex.  I wonder if any of the inmates ever noticed how gorgeous was the lighting in this place…

Folly Theater

The Folly Theater in downtown Kansas City was my first ever photo assignment, originally shot back in 2003.  I asked the current director there if I could come back and try again now that I’ve had some practice…  First time around was all film and large format view camera, these are all digital.  I’m putting together a new “historical architecture” page on the web-site - this is the second project I’ve collected for it so far…

Pan-O-Rama!

This is the second panorama I took at Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial this weekend.  Turns out if your tilt-shift lens is shifted horizontally and you forget to set it back to zero, your panorama stitching program will FREAK OUT.

And kids, if you tape the ends of this together and  make it into a big loop, you can spin it around your head and visit the memorial without ever leaving the house!  Ask your mom first if you’re going to use pointy scissors!

Great Flood of ’73

I can’t be completely certain, but these appear to be photos of the 1973 flood in Enid, Oklahoma.  They’re some my Grandfather took, and he rarely labeled anything.  There are only a very few notes in all the hundreds of photos I’ve gone through; on one box he wrote “Dad Boyer + Lois”, the another he said “There are eagles in here”.

Not related, I think.

I was sorting through a pile of my late grandfather Bill’s slides, when I began to see photos of this happy man.  I don’t know if he’s a relative, or a friend of my grandfather’s.  I like to think Bill was really an undercover government agent – not a TV repairman like he told everybody – and this guy was his charge, placed in Muskogee for  witness protection.

Irish Hunger Memorial

These are the last of the photos I took while in NYC in May.  I’ve posted these already to the main site, but thought I’d highlight them here, too.  What you don’t see (because the light was not ideal looking the other direction) is the top of this is like a piece of Irish countryside dropped into the city.  Really very cool.  Read more about it here.

Accidental Photojournalism

On December 30th, the NY Times ran a collection of reader’s photos of the past decade  which you can still see here.  This one from our travels in the UK/Ireland appears on May 15th, 2002 of their timeline.