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Tulsa, Oklahoma Skyscrapers, April 30, 2016
Three Tulsa downtown landmark structures from near to far are the Philcade, Philtower (Multi-Colored Tile Roof), and the Mid-Continent Tower (Copper Patina Roof), formerly the Cosden Building. These buildings march from Sixth Street to Fourth Street along the east side of Boston Avenue, and visually lead to the sixty-story Bank of Oklahoma Building that occupies the north end of Boston Avenue at Second Street, an intersection that was closed to make way for what was at its completion in 1976, the tallest building in Oklahoma. All three of these structures borrow on Art-Deco/neo-Classical themes. On a late April afternoon with perfect weather, the sun strikes strongly on the west-facing planes of these buildings, while gently raking the south planes giving relief and definition to otherwise less prominent details. The Mid-Continent Building has an interesting history in that it was originally Tulsa’s first skyscraper, the sixteen-story Cosden building completed in 1918. Sixty-six years later the top twenty stories were added in a separate structure that was cantilevered over the original Cosden building. The two structures match so perfectly that they appear as one unified edifice, now named the Mid-Continent Building. This image was made with a Nikon Df DSLR using one of Nikon’s first aspherical lenses the 28-70mm f2.8-4.0 AF-D, at 70mm. The strongly converging vertical lines in the original digital file were carefully corrected to this image. If one looks very carefully there is just a hint of pincushion distortion along the northwest corner of the Mid-Continent building. Pincushion distortion, that is lines that bow slightly towards the image center, are an unavoidable consequence of many zoom lens designs. Because of its aspherical design, the Nikkor lens I used shows almost no pincushion distortion.
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