Favorite Skyline Shots

[UnFrSaKn]

The Oklahoma City I want to see twenty years from now looks like this:

One or two new towers on the Stage Center site to the west, Devon Energy Center to the north, convention center with high rise to the south and residential towers to the east where the Cox Convention Center used to be. Making Myriad Gardens into a miniature Central Park like in NYC.

[UnFrSaKn]

Late 1930's

[Jim Kyle]

That has to be a Fred MacArthur photo; the hand-lettered title was his trademark. My very first job was working for Mister Mac as a retail salesman and general go-fer at Oklahoma Photo Supply, 315 N. Broadway, while I was still in high school. He originally had a drugstore in OKC, but was an avid amateur photographer and set up his darkroom to do photo finishing for the drugstore customers. That grew into MacArthur Photo Service, located on Linwood just west of Western, and that in turn gave birth to Oklahoma Photo which in the late 40s was the largest photo supply retailer and wholesaler in the state. After Mister Mac's death, Eastmak Kodak bought the firm and changed the name...

Many of the early OKC photos came from Mister Mac's postcard-size Kodak, with hand-lettered titles, and were actual photo prints processed by his photo service.

[UnFrSaKn]

[bchris02]

I took this one this weekend. Not the greatest shot but I am still learning how to use my camera correctly.

[OKCisOK4me]

I have some shots from today but the site is not letting me transition the pics and I can't stand doing the little attach move...

[russellc]

Oklahoma City Skyline by racnokc, on Flickr


Oklahoma City Skyline by racnokc, on Flickr


Oklahoma City Skyline from Boathouse Row by racnokc, on Flickr

[UnFrSaKn]

July 5 2013

[UnFrSaKn]

Late 1930's

[UnFrSaKn]

Wide range of styles and periods here. One of oldest and tallest buildings (1907 Pioneer Building), 1920's (Telephone Building), 1930's (FNC and City Place) 1970's (SandRidge) 80's (Oklahoma Tower) 2000's (Devon Tower)

[Praedura]

Great idea Will! Love the before-and-after comparison. Not much has changed, huh?

[Praedura]

Those are great photos, russellc. Especially the third one (at Boathouse Row). I look at that and marvel at how much of what I see is relatively new -- the river, the boathouse buildings, Devon Tower,...
It's a whole new modern landscape created there.

[UnFrSaKn]

Insight Visual Media | Oklahoma based graphic design, web development, photography and video production company

[Praedura]

Insight Visual Media | Oklahoma based graphic design, web development, photography and video production company

That's a great shot. Cooper Ross rocks!

[Pete]

Here's another jaw-dropper from IVM...

I look at this and in some ways have a hard time even recognizing my home town:

[UnFrSaKn]

[UnFrSaKn]

[Praedura]

Taken from The Packard rooftop:



Not a big pic, but that sky....

Source: Downtown OKC Pictures and Videos ? #okc #downtownokc #oklahoma #patioweather #clouds #pretty #beautiful #sunset #nofilter #devontower @packardsokc

[Praedura]

The City of OKC posted a nice photo gallery on their fb page here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...5692311&type=1

The title is "OKC Street Scenes | July 22", so I guess they were taken ealier today (recently anyway). Here's a nice one:



Notice how you can see two cranes in the shot.

[Pete]

The amazing Cooper Ross just posted a new set to his website:

[UnFrSaKn]

[Praedura]

A few nice downtown shots from Jonathan Garner:










Source: Slog Alpinismo: Downtown Oklahoma City - 5 August 2013

[Praedura]

You GOTTA LOVE this commercial (produced by Insight Visual Media):

https://vimeo.com/71466752

That's awesome!

Has anyone seen this aired? I haven't -- but then again, I hardly ever watch TV these days.

[Praedura]

Still shot from that commercial:

[Thundercitizen]

Kaiju!