By MIKE SIMONS Staff Photographer on May 19, 2013, at 3:36 PM Updated on 5/19 at 3:36 PM
Ardell Goodsell stands outside Panera Bread on East 41st Street between Sheridan Road and Yale Avenue. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
I've written in this space before about my new "old love" of shooting film with cheap plastic cameras - known as toy cameras in the photo world.
I recently got a roll of film processed and scanned to a CD. As I looked through the photos, I started seeing a theme emerge - one I didn't notice while I was shooting. This is the beauty of shooting this way.
Newspaper photographers have to constantly think while they're shooting. But some of the best photos I have ever taken were ones I shot two decades ago. Why? I wasn't thinking; just reacting. These cameras allow me to do that all over again. Quit thinking and just shoot.
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A closed-down gas station is seen at East 36th Street North between North Yale Avenue and North Sheridan Road. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
Broken window at a closed-down gas station is seen at East 36th Street North between North Yale Avenue and North Sheridan Road. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
A closed-down gas station is seen at East 36th Street North between North Yale Avenue and North Sheridan Road. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
Downtown Tulsa.
