KC From The Scout Statue

Posted on Tue 24 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024-09-22 KC Photos

Last for the day of my list of KC places to photograph, after the KCTV Tower was a stop at the Scout statue overlooking downtown. By this point I was getting sick of the drizzle that hadn't let up the whole time I was out. I grabbed a few shots …


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KCTV Tower

Posted on Tue 24 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024-09-22 KC Photos

Going through my list of KC places to photograph, after leaving Swope Park, I decided to head towards downtown, the Scout statue specifically, since I knew that gave some nice views of downtown, including the kind of worthless ferris wheel. And navigation just happened to take me past the KCTV …


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Swope Park Railroad Bridges

Posted on Tue 24 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024-09-22 KC Photos

Also on my list of KC places to photograph was some nice railroad bridges going through Swope Park, one over Gregory south of the Zoo, the other over 63rd, north of it. I see these just about every time I go to the zoo, which is a lot, and have …


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KC Skyline From Sports Complex

Posted on Tue 24 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024-09-22 KC Photos

On Sunday I got restless and decided to go out and about and photograph things around Kansas City I've been wanting to, but never have. It was raining when I decided, but it was forecasted to stop soon after I left (ominous foreshadowing).

First stop was looking over the Kansas …


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Loess Hills north of Council Bluffs

Posted on Thu 19 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Travel, Iowa, 2024-09 South Dakota

After leaving the Great Plains Zoo and heading back towards home, in Iowa I saw a sign on the highway for the Loess Hills State Forest. Following the signs off the highway, I got closer to the bluffs from the Missouri River and a spot that had recently been burned …


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Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, SD

Posted on Thu 19 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Travel, South Dakota, Zoo, 2024-09 South Dakota

On my way back from Mitchell, SD I stopped at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, SD. A friend told me there was a baby Pallas Cat there, so figured it would be worth it.

Naturally it was rainy that morning, and saw neither hide nor hair of the …


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To South Dakota

Posted on Thu 19 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Travel, South Dakota, 2024-09 South Dakota

On the evening of Saturday the 14th the NOAA Aurora Dashboard gave pretty good odds of there being a good aurora the following day, with the view line almost reaching down into Missouri, with a chance of it being overhead as far south as northern Iowa and Nebraska.

Aurora forecast for Sunday the 15th

Looking at …


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Hello World

Posted on Thu 12 September 2024 in general

Naturally, Cohost announces they're shutting down right after I start posting photos there. And now I need somewhere else to do that. And that somewhere is now here.

Stock Pelican with a highly modified Flex theme. Which still needs more modifications done. I need to style the links on the …


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Dark skies in Northern Missouri

Posted on Mon 09 September 2024 in photography • Tagged with Photography, Astrophotography, Moon, Milky Way

On Friday after work, I decided to drive 2 hours, a bit over 100 miles, to northern Missouri which is the closest darkest skies I could find, some little place ran by the Missouri Department of Conservation called Seat Memorial Conservation Area.

Got to the area at about 8:30 …


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The carrying bag for my telescope arrived

Posted on Thu 05 September 2024 in general • Tagged with Cat

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Upside: I can transport the telescope and all parts of the tripod in my car without anything rolling around, and can maybe carry it in one trip.

Downside: all of the bags.

Bonus cat. And it just dwarfs my camera bag