Photo musette

This lovely pile of stone is Tulsa's Union Depot, a former train station. It's now the Jazz Depot and home to the Tulsa Philharmonic. You can imagine men in fedoras and trenchcoats, tearful families seeing their sons off to war, or a Hollywood starlet stepping down from a train in front of adoring fans. I'd love to see the inside.

This is just a taste. I'm fascinated by the building and I'll undoubtedly go there again. For that matter, this is my second trip there already.


This is the first floor entry to the Depot. I like the Art Deco door handles, a nice touch considering that ordinary office doors would have been far less expensive.



This was taken with the Nikon N6006 in Collinsville last week. I like public art and I like red brick buildings, so the two go together quite well.


This was taken with the Canon A590IS earlier today. It's a motorcycle shop along Admiral Boulevard in Tulsa. This was one early alignment of Route 66, though more period buildings can be found along the 11th Street alignment.

The Canon doesn't seem to be as sharp as the Kodak Z1285. Then again, it's only 8 megapixels as opposed to the Kodak's 12 megs. I don't know if the lenses make a difference, but the Kodak has a Schneider lens too. One big failing of the Kodak is that the screen is impossible to see in bright light and there's no optical finder. I've been very tempted to attach an accessory viewfinder to this camera.


Here's another headstone from the cemetery last week too, again, taken with the Nikon N6006.

I'm a tired puppy. Besides the walking around in Tulsa this morning, I did some yard work and installed a new closer on the front door. My feets be hurtin'! Worse yet, I found out all too quickly that I'm in poor shape to be outside with a shovel in my hands.

More photos are over on my Picasa web album.