Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Johnny Rockets

October 25, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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Johnny Rockets is a diner chain found across the US. It's reported charm is it's 50's ambiance. I've never been into one so I wouldn't know. What drew me to pause was all that red vinyl furniture set out on the sidewalk. The horizontal layout of that element contrasted with the vertical element of the three blue dots.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Waldorf Towers Hotel

October 24, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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This building sports the rounded corners typical of many of the Art Deco buildings in South Beach. This particular building was designed by Albert Anis in 1937. I was partly drawn by the architecture and partly by the orange and white paint scheme.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Breakwater Revisited

October 23, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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These past few days I've been working with a beta evaluation copy of onOne software's Perfect Photo Suite 7. I'm just sticking with the Perfect Effects 4 and Perfect B&W 1 modules and I'm using them from within Photoshop CS6 rather than from within Lightroom or stand-alone.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Breakwater Hotel

October 22, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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Next door to Ocean's Ten and the Edison is the Breakwater Hotel. It's hard to miss given the prominence of the name on the building! Blues, yellows and white are a repeating color theme on Ocean Drive. There are exceptions, of course. I was really drawn to that iconic sign.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Chevy Bel Air

October 21, 2012
Black and White / Travel

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This Chevy Bel Air was parked outside the Ocean's Ten Restaurant on Ocean Drive, Miami. From the color coordination, I'm guessing the owner of the restaurant and the owner of the car are the same person. if you look closely you'll see the license plate is from Cuba.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Ocean’s Ten

October 20, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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I was drawn to this scene by the color matching of the restaurant's orange awnings and yellow walls with the pain scheme of the Chevy Bel Air parked outside. I'm guessing the owner/operators of the two are the same which leads me to my next question - was the restaurant decorated to match the Chevy or was the Chevy re-painted to match the restaurant?