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?

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Versace House Observatory

October 19, 2012
Travel

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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.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami, 1086

October 18, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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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.