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The pool at the Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida. this is the largest hotel swimming pool in the continental USA. it's 23,000 square-feet in area and holds 700,000 gallons of water.

Daily Photo – Biltmore Moonrise

Richard Davis November 16, 2012
Architecture

With a multi-capture HDR I’d have been able to get a much crisper shot of the moon. As it is, I’m quite happy with the sharpness given this was hand held at a shutter speed of 0.4 seconds after two glasses of wine!

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Lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida

Daily Photo – Biltmore Lobby

Richard Davis November 13, 2012
Architecture 2

You can get a hint of the architecture in this historic hotel from this image. The wooden structure on the left is actually a bird cage. There were a number of colorful small birds within both this enclosure and a similar one on the other side of the lobby. As mentioned before, I’m not an ornithologist so I’ll just stick with ‘birds’.

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