Well, this is the old West, don't you see. This one didn't start with the two men standing back to back and taking 20 paces where they turned around and shot at each other. This was a modern era duel. A duel of cameras between a Canon owner and mine---An Olympus!!
After de-training at the St. Paul Station, I walked back to Thanksgiving Square. My initial image of the spiral of stained glass needed to be updated. The reason: the lighting of the center focal point of the spiral is a ring of lights. They have now been updated to LED and the difference from the old is amazing. Maybe a bit to bright, but the electrician said to me that they are on rheostats and can be turned down.
After leaving Thanksgiving Square Chapel, I walked up the street from the train station and got some images of the old US Post Office and Court House building. The old images that I had from years ago needed to be updated too. The building is an amazing building of architecture and detail. On Federal, going toward Federal plaza, the row of postal delivery trucks are lined up for nearly the entire length of Federal. Rather impressive display, too.
If, at the light I turned left, I would pass right by the massive fountain at the beautiful plaza at the New First Baptist Church addition beside and behind the old downtown church. One of the larger Main Stream Churches in the US. The senior pastor at First Baptist is Dr. Robert Jeffress. He is an authors and also a Fox News Contributor.
Since I had photographed the fountain before, I was going to cross the street
and turn back toward the train station so that I could get a clear
shot of the that side of the US Post Office and Court House. The far
side had the power lines for the trains and it would have messed up the
image. When the light turned and I started crossing the street, I see a
family of several people walking toward me. I noticed as they walked
past me that one had a Canon camera. I said to him, "when you gonna
trade in the thing and get a real camera?" He stopped, his father seeing
what was going on with a smile from ear to ear, someone ask me." what
kind of camera do you have?". "Olympus, I replied." The next thing I
knew, his camera came up to his eye as he focused. I had to do the same. The
duel occurred, we laughed, the family continued on and I went into the
Trolley Stop Cafe and had fantastic late morning breakfast.
After the duel it was breakfast
