Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Johnny Rockets Revisited

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Johnny Rockets Revisited
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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.

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Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Breakwater Revisited

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Breakwater Revisited
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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.

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Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Storm

Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Storm
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I took this image at a place I've noted as being Schoonspruit in the Free State, back in December 1988. But it doesn't appear to be the Schoonspruit that Google…

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