Westwood Home by Steve Nuss Interiors

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This project by Steve Nuss Interiors features a cozy home for one person in Westwood, Kansas. My favorite part of the home is the small kitchen outfitted with premium appliances, clean white cabinets and a large skylight that breathes in tons of light. The natural light that comes through fills the kitchen with ample amount of light during the day so you can see everything you're doing. Steve's design is in the whole kitchen, including the skylight, appliances, cabinets, counter tops... everything.

We spent half a day capturing the main spaces in the home which all were wonderfully put together. 

Office Furnishings by John A Marshall Company

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John A. Marshall Company is an office furnishings dealer and service company. My task for this project was to capture some of the unique furnishings for their client's space. Working with Stephen Marshall our goal was to arrive in the morning and spend 3-4 hours taking pictures of our main areas of interest without causing too much distraction. It was a live office. The pictures convey an empty space but I can assure you we spent much of our time staging the scenes and maintaining a minimal presence.

Historic Architecture - The Nelson-Piper Building's Transformation

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I was called to get some shots of the historic Nelkon-Piper building for EDCKC's blog. The building is 134 years old as of writing this. Immediately I knew a front twilight shot was in order so I could capture the character of the exterior. I requested that the interior lights stay on until about 5:30pm. The sun set around 5pm the evening I shot it. The benefits of shooting twilights in the winter are you get to shoot and be done before 5:30 instead of 8:30 or 9:00 in the Summer. There's one positive for Winter...

The next day I got to spend a couple hours capturing some of the interior views of the office space doing my best to dodge people and not be a giant distraction. There was no lighting setup here.  That way I could remain stealthy and sneak around getting shots without blasting light into people's spaces.

Inspiration From Home

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It was only a couple years ago when I decided to quit my job to pursue a photography business. I had no interest in shooting family portraits, weddings, sexy models or events. Rather it was the fascination with patterns found in architecture that made  me start shooting.

Looking way back I realize that it was the home I grew up in that planted the seeds for the love of architecture. It was originally a one-story farmhouse built in the early 1920's. The second story was added in the 1930's.

We spent many evenings and weekend afternoons watching storms come in on the front porch in the Spring. On both the front and side porches you can see the beautiful stonework. It made my imagination run wild because you could see all the old fossilized shells and other interesting critters peppered throughout the stone.

My favorite details are the beams holding up the porch eaves. They are a little crooked from foundation movements. You'll understand if you have lived near Kansas City. It has a reputation for bi-polar weather. 100 years of scorching summers, windy storms, hail, snowstorms, ice storms and floods will shake things up a bit.

Abandoned Photography - Westport Middle School

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To date this has been the most interesting and fun shoots I've tackled. Westport Middle School sold to developers to reuse the school as a piece of an entrepreneur/tech mixed use campus. The campus will feature a coding school, live-work spaces for artists and entrepreneurs, a health center, and a bevy of other amenities to suite the needs of tech culture. Sounds like a great place for a freelance photographer to work at...

I showed up an hour before an event which included about 200 people. My goal was to race around the building capturing what I could before the crowd poured in. Carrying a tripod around the exterior and up and down 4 flights of stairs made for a creative workout! The space was raw so the idea was to capture that feeling and to document some of the space before the transformation.

It's fun to visualize what will become of this beautiful old space. I found one of the most interesting features of this old school is that the cafeteria is at the top of the building on the fourth floor. I would love to know why this was considering the supplies needed to be transported up to the top of the building.