World Series Trophy

Victory at the Super Bowl, the World Series and every major championship is commemorated by the presentation of custom-designed trophies from Tiffany & Co.
 
This is the 2012 Commissioner’s Trophy, which many people know as the World Series Trophy.  It is awarded annually to the winners of Major League Baseball’s World Series, and presented by the Commissioner of Baseball. It has been awarded 44 times since 1967, and like the Vince Lombardi Trophy, Tiffany makes a new one each year as the winners keep the one they are awarded.

This is the first time I have seen a championship trophy, and it was stunning in silver and 24k gold. 

Photograph copyright 2012 Larry F. Levenson. All rights reserved.

National Guard

This focused soldier is part of the four-person Color Guard of the Kansas National Guard with whom I recently worked. 

They keep us safe. Thank you.

Photograph copyright 2012 Larry F. Levenson. All rights reserved.

Greg Brenneman, Turnaround Authority

Greg Brenneman holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and has a reputation as the man who can turn troubled corporations around. 

When he joined Continental Airlines as President, the company was plummeting toward its third bankruptcy in a decade. During his tenure, Continental's stock price rose from $6.25 to $120.00 per share (pre split). 

In 2004, Mr. Brenneman accepted the position as Chairman and CEO of Burger King Corporation, and most recently, Brenneman has served as president and CEO of Quiznos Subs. Brenneman also serves on the board of directors of The Home Depot, Inc. and Automatic Data Processing. 

He is an Emmy Award winner, book author, founder of Turnworks, Inc, and has been published in the Harvard Business Review, and profiled often in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune magazine, and Chief Executive magazine.

Photograph copyright 2012 Larry F. Levenson. 

All rights reserved.

Kimberly Cowen

Accomplished ballerina Kimberly Cowen makes her grand final bow with Kansas City Ballet. 

Kimberly had a momentous 20-year history of dance with the company.

Photograph copyright 2012 Larry F. Levenson. All rights reserved.

Michael Stern

Michael Stern is Music Director and Lead Conductor of The Kansas City Symphony. 

As a young conductor, he debuted at the New York Philharmonic, invited by Leonard Bernstein to participate in a conducting workshop. 

Stern later became the permanent Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon in Lyon, France. While in France, he appeared with orchestras in Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, and Toulouse, as well as others throughout Europe.
 

 Photograph copyright Larry F. Levenson. All rights reserved.

Lee Daniel

Lee Daniel is an award-winning movie and documentary cinematographer.

His projects include Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Fast Food Nation, and the documentary, A Mother's Promise: The Barack Obama Biography. 

Lee worked on many movies with Director Richard Linklater, and the two of them founded the Austin Film Society.
  
Just as Alfred Hitchcock made very quick, subtle trademark appearances in his movies, Lee's trademark is "709" and it can be seen in many of the films on which he has worked.

Photograph copyright 2012 Larry F. Levenson. All rights reserved.