Downtown Tucson on a Saturday Morning
December 22, 2008
Post Tags: downtown tucson , joel d valdez main library , pima county courthouse , tucson photography meetup group
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Pima County Courthouse
I don’t go to downtown Tucson very often. You can count on one hand the number of times in the past 9 years I’ve been downtown (okay, I just checked and it might take one and a half hands). I’ve driven through it, but to park, get out of my car and “be downtown”. . .
This past Saturday I joined a few others from the Tucson Photography Meetup Group for a morning photo walk. We meet outside the Joel D. Valdez main library.
I didn’t know parking was free on weekends. I didn’t know a lot about downtown Tucson, I still don’t. But I do know enough to know I want to go back down there again.
I know the parks, library, and architecture of downtown Tucson is facinating.
I know that Saturday morning is a great time to take a walk down town with your camera, your dog, or your family. Maybe all of them at the same time.
I didn’t know there was a website called Downtown Tucson or that they had a parking map.
If you haven’t ventured downtown because of the traffic, or no place to park, because it just seemed like it was too far to drive, then you might want to test those assumptions. If you thought all you would find down there were government buildings and nothing of interest I can assure you that isn’t the case.
If you are a photographer and you haven’t been down town, I would suggest you grab your gear and get down there some weekend morning. There is a lot of great image material for your camera.
I’m glad I took the time to do the photo walk down town. If you have a camera and want to learn more about how to take great images then I would suggest you join the Tucson Photography Meetup Group. It is a great place to learn more about photography and Roger D is a wealth of information and he is very willing to share it with others.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Sounds like a nice Saturday! Being a tourist in your own city can be a great way to take a “mini-break” and not pay a lot of money.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:06 am
In our neck of the woods, there are a lot of “downtowns”, a lot of which have been languishing because of fierce competition from modernized malls and mixed-use developments.
A few of them, like one of ours in Willow Glen, are undergoing their own renovations but they’re getting some resistance from locals who want to preserve the “character” of the local community. This isn’t unreasonable but downtowns aren’t the destinations they once were given more modern megaplexes just a few miles away.