Category Archives: Travel Photography 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.  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.  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.  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. 
[...] familiar with the controls of Perfect Effects 4 and I like it a little more each time I use it. Tomorrow I’ll post a happy accident I made while processing this photo. As with the last couple of [...]  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. 
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[...] sliders to get the color image below. This was the ‘happy accident’ I referred to in yesterday’s post and I was quite pleased with that result. I then took that image into Perfect B&W 1 to produce [...]  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.
[...] view is from the south looking north-east. At the far right you can just make out the roof of the Chevy Bel Air parked outside Ocean’s Ten. By the exif data from the camera, I took this shot around 9:50 am [...]  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?
[...] Reviews, Travel Photography, USAIf you rad my post yesterday then you’ll know that this Chevy Bel Air was parked outside the Ocean’s Ten Restaurant on Ocean Drive, Miami. From the color [...]
[...] north-east. At the far right you can just make out the roof of the Chevy Bel Air parked outside Ocean’s Ten. By the exif data from the camera, I took this shot around 9:50 am or about 30 minutes after I took [...]  I noticed an observatory on the top of ‘The Villa by Barton G’ as it is now officially titled, originally the Casa Casuarina and more commonly known as the Versace House. I thought it quite curious that there was an observatory here. I doubt there’s still a telescope there and I’d wager the light pollution from the local neighborhood would render all but the brightest stars invisible if there is.  This property is located at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 11th Street. I was initially drawn to the portholes of the building on the left. Then I noticed the common theme of the pastel blue paint framing the windows of the building on the right and tying the two buildings together despite their architectural differences. Curiously the windows of the middle floor don’t seem to have any circular theme. 
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[...] USAAs I was looking around from the location where I took the photo posted yesterday of 1086 Ocean Drive, I noticed an observatory on the top of ‘The Villa by Barton G‘ as it is now officially [...]  Miami beach is dotted with these wonderful Lifeguard stations. They’re named for the streets that would intersect the ocean if extended that far. That way, if there’s an emergency, it’s pretty easy to say where you are located. Each shack appears to be different in overall design and decoration.
[...] and when you search on that it nothing leaps out from the search results. I had returned from the beach to continue south down Ocean Drive. This property is located at the intersection of Ocean Drive and [...]
[...] deco buildings that line the drive. I did take a slight detour to take another photograph of the 12th Street Lifeguard Station.While the beach had been pretty deserted on the Friday the same could not be said of the Saturday. [...] |
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by Richard Davis