I was at the gym the other day and I peaked out into the courtyard and saw this almost bulls eye pattern on the astroturf.
Nearby on a walking trail I saw a more natural shadow.
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On the west side of Tulsa there is a Route 66 Gateway over the road which makes for an interesting shadow.
The other side has shadows too.
Right next to it is this stylized gear and pinion installed by an artist with a Tulsa theme.
Note the oil derrick and pumpjack. The scissor tailed flycatcher is the state bird of Oklahoma.
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On our recent trip we stayed in a house on the side of a hill. I kind of liked the interplay of the trees, boulders, and shadows.
Chilling on an afternoon at our cabin I loved the shadows on the deck.
And back at home, a little fancy curlicue shadow on our patio.
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I was in the Tulsa suburb of Owasso last week. They have revamped their downtown area in the last several years and I was checking it out.
So this is my first ever shadow view, as far as I can remember (the only thing I can remember these days is that I have a bad memory.) It’s next to their history museum.
They have a big outdoor event space as well with some interesting shadows.
I like how the shadows interacted with the brick in this shot.
And a run of the mill bench shadow but you know I am easily amused.
I am a fan of back alleys so I tucked down one and found this set of electric meters. The engineer in me loves stuff like this that is designed and is so cool, functional, and geometric. Just wait a few years and somebody will mess it up, happens every time. Entropy. I kind of like the rust colored paint job as well. It’s almost red.
And a waterogue app rendition of our back patio when it was raining earlier this month. I love the blue cushions. I may have posted this photo previously. Maybe not.
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A shadow from a few weeks ago in our neighborhood park.
From our cabin last Spring when Heather and spent a Covid safe weekend in the woods of Southeast Oklahoma.
And three years ago, me and bike shot by my cheap gopro clone, bad white balance and all. Hoping to get my bike back from the shop soon to make more shadowy shots.
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Last week I stopped in at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. Their big centerpiece display is the Winnie Mae, a replica of the Lockheed 5C Vega aircraft that Oklahoma aviation pioneer, Wiley Post, flew solo around the world in 1933. He subsequently flew the plywood framed Winnie Mae to 50,000 feet using a homemade pressurization suit. In 1935 Post and another Oklahoma legend, Will Rogers died in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.
Now back down to earth, I had a symmetrical shadow in my back yard.
I’ve started running again. Didn’t realize how much I missed it. Here is a mesh shadow of some temporary fencing.
And of a pedestrian bridge.
And speaking of pedestrian. Heather and I went to a local brewery and had a couple of their beers. As a bonus, the glass had some interesting shadows. I guess it was time to head home.
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We went to the see the kid to day at college. While we were still on the way he tripped and sprained his ankle. So the “go visit and resupply the kid” trip became the “evaluate and evacuate the kid” trip. We brought him home with us so he can heal up. It would have been a lot harder to do that without so many classes being online. I did get this shadowy photo of the trees and snow outside his dorm.
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Last week we took a little family trip to the Zoo. While there I captured images of shadows.
I am a sucker for wooden pedestrian bridges. I have dozens of shots of them. I don’t know why I like them so much. Found this one with some shadows.
And I got a fairly sharply defined streetlight shadow.
I am also a sucker for iron work and the resulting complicated shadows such as this one at a picnic pavillion in the Zoo.
Since the zoo trip we got the kid back to college. He’s pretty happy, maybe too happy to be away from us. We miss him too! But we are also enjoying have the house to ourselves again.
Brother Bob is out of quarantine at his Assisted Living Apartment. He’s been in either hospitals or Long Term Care for over a year and has really worked hard to get to a more regular living option. He’s enjoying mingling (safely) with his fellow residents and is partaking of the activities the place has.
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Heather and I went hiking on the Keystone Trail near Tulsa on a kind of tough (for us), kind of long trail and found this taunting sign. Made us laugh. Hell no this isn’t too tough!!
I love this long covered walkway at the Linnaeus Teaching Garden here in Tulsa.
Big secret in Tulsa is that the gardens at Gilcrease Museum are free!! I loved this shadow made by a Victorian wrought iron fence and arbor.
Backing away a little so you can see it better.
Sorry, still working from the archives. We were exposed to Covid again and so we stayed inside pending tests. Heather and I were both negative!! The virus is raging through Oklahoma right now.
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I thought this shadow of garland strung on a bridge looked like an EKG or maybe a stock market graph or something like that.
I love the pure geometry of this.
A bright sun makes for sharp shadows.
Not strictly a shadow shot, or maybe not a shadow shot at all. I love these dried blooms.
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