Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Johnny Rockets Revisited

October 26, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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This series (three shot, 4EV range HDR) was actually shot with the portrait composition. It's not a crop of yesterday's image. I like the interplay of the shapes and the colors. The round dots, the rectangular windows the whatever shapes of the chairs. The blue, the white and the red architectural elements complementing the star spangled banner hanging on the wall. The reflections of the clouds and palm trees in the windows of the upper floors. Black and white first today with color below.

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.