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Two more historic Art Deco gems on Collins Avenue.

Webster Hotel
1220 Collins Avenue
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1939

Hotel Shelley
844 Collins Avenue
Architect: L. Murray Dixon, 1936

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” 🩷💜💛🤍🩵
— Frank Gehry

@mdpl1976 

#MiamiBeach #ArtDeco #HistoricPreservation #MiamiArchitecture mdpl
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“We live in a world of patterns.” — Richard P. Feynman

Miami Parkitecture 💙🩵🧡🤍

#parkitecture #miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #miamibeach #patterns
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I love to notice colorful reflections.
This is a Franz Ackermann mural outside the Miami Beach Convention Center, reflected onto a Tesla. ❤️🩷🩵💛🧡🥰

#reflection #carreflection #miamimurals #miamicolortheory #shotoniphone
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A lovely trio of art deco on Ocean Drive, Miami Beach

“These old buildings do not belong to us only; they belonged to our forefathers, and they will belong to our descendants unless we play them false.”
— William Morris, from an SPAB address (1889)

Crescent Hotel
1420 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1938

McAlpin Hotel
1430 Ocean Drive
Architect: L. Murray Dixon, 1941

Ocean Plaza Hotel
1430 Ocean Drive
Architect: L. Murray Dixon, 1941

With thanks to @mdpl1976 for preserving this history.

#ArtDeco
#MiamiArtDeco
#OceanDrive
#MiamiArchitecture
#DesignLovers
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This pastel pair are two of my favorite art deco / Mimo buildings in Miami Beach.

#miamicolortheory #artdeco #miamibeach #artdecomiami #shotoniphone
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Miami Beach Lifeguard stations by architect William Lane ❤️💛🧡

#miamibeach #lifeguardstations
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“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take
the first step.” - Martin Luther King 🩵💚🤍

Mural by @milagrosyall 🎨

#miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #steps #wynwood
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“Architecture begins where engineering ends.” — Walter Gropius 💛🔹🤍🧡

📍South Pointe Elementary School, Miami Beach

#miamicolortheory #southpointe #miamibeach #minimalphoto
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“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” - Maya Angelo 🩷💛🩵🧡💚🤍

Slide 4 mural by @edward__granger 
Slide 6 mural by @rrstudiosmiami
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“We speak of concrete and not abstract painting, because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.” - Theo van Doesburg 💛🩷🧡💙💚

Portion of a mural by @davidguinnstudio
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“Pure colors can be used like words to compose poems, like notes to compose music.” — Joan Miró🧡🩵🤍

#minimalphoto #miamicolortheory #beautyiseverywhere #miamibeach
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“There is more power in telling little than in telling all.”
— Mark Rothko 💛🖤💙

#miamicolortheory #colorblocking #shotoniphone #minimalphotography
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“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own.” — Paulo Coelho 💚💙🙌

Car reflection of the Brian Peterson mural@at the Miami Rescue Mission in Wynwood.

#carreflection #shotoniphone #miamimural #brianpeterson #miamirescuemission
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver 💚🤍

#seeingdifferently #miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #shadows
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“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” - Constantin Brancusi 🔴🟠🟡🔵

#miamicolortheory #circles #shotoniphone #miamiarchitecture #arquitectonica
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The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them. 🤍💙🩵🌴

#shotoniphone #miamicolortheory #miami
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Sometimes I like creating abstract compositions from the architecture and sky in front of me. What I love most is that the feeling of discovering and creating them lasts far beyond the moment I capture the image. ✨

#miamicolortheory #seeingdifferently #abstractphotography #miamiarchitecture #iphonephotography
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Oh! 🔵🟢🟡⚪️🔴

#circles #miami #shotoniphone #minimalphotography
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“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.” 💛💙🩵
— Louis Kahn

#minimalphoto #miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #miamibeach
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“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.” — Goethe 🧡🩵💙

#miamicolortheory #shadows #shotoniphone
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I love capturing Miami’s colors and shapes reflected on vehicles. This beautiful @tristaneaton mural at the @museumofgraffiti reflected into a @rivianofficial R1T in Wynwood felt especially fun. A tiny move in any direction completely changes the composition. 🎉🙌😎❤️🩵💛💚🤍

#miamicolortheory #wynwood #rivian #tristaneaton #seeingdifferently
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Enjoy some of my favorite Reels!

Instagram just added a feature that lets you place tappable links directly inside Reels.

To use it:
Download and open the Edits app → tap “Links” → choose a Reel or profile → place it anywhere on the screen → publish.

Right now it only works within Instagram, not external websites.

A cool update, and a new way to guide people through how you see.

#miamicolortheory #seeingdifferently
#instagramupdates
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My minimal photograph of a @johnny_robles mural at @chase bank in Wynwood - a beautiful @goldmanglobalarts project. 💙🩵🤍

#miamicolortheory #johnnyrobles #wynwood #shotoniphone
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“In architecture, light is the divine expression of form. It reveals the essence of materiality, casting shadows that narrate the beauty of space.” — Louis Kahn 🩷💚🤍

Shadow is light with something to say. 💚🩷 😎
The Chelsea: South Beach Art Deco building

#ArtDecoMiami #ColorAndShadow #PastelArchitecture #ShadowPlay #MiamiColorTheory​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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I love this building — the colors and the way the light hits it are always stunning, especially against a bright blue Miami sky. Rebecca from Shulman + Associates, the architects, told me the colors were inspired by mango, sun, water, and sand… which makes it even cooler. It’s the Artist Workforce Housing building in Collins Park, and every time I photograph it, it becomes something completely different. The light, shadows, reflections, and sky are never the same twice.

Architect: @shulmandesign 💙🤍🧡💛🩵

#miamicolortheory #miamilight #colors #miamiarchitecture #shulmandesign
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A Franz Ackermann mural reflected into a Rivian outside the Miami Beach Convention Center. Part of my original car reflection photo series. ❤️🧡💚💙💛

#miamicolortheory #reflectionphotography #franzackermann #rivian #miamiart
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“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
- Mary Oliver

🌈🥰❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#lifeguardstation #shotoniphone #miamicolortheory #rainbow
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Color blocks and diagonal shadows ❤️🤍🩶💛💚🖤

#shotoniphone #miamicolortheory #miami #colorblock
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Shot this right side up, posted it upside down so your eye goes straight to the negative space. 💙🩵🧡💛

“Color is the most relative medium in art.” - Josef Albers 🎨

📍Miami Children’s Museum
Architect: @arquitectonicaarchitecture 

#miamicolortheory #foundabstraction #urbanabstract #arquitectonica #colorfield
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“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” - Gregory Maguire 🩵💙🩵

#miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #shadow #overshadowing #miami
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“To look is one thing. To see is another.” — Georges Braque

🟥⬜️🟥⬜️🩵

#miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #miamibeach #minimalphotography
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🩵💚🩵😎

#lifeguardstation #miamibeach #miamicolortheory
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“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky

Who can name this Miami building?
Who can name the architect? 🩵💛🧡💙

I love creating abstract compositions of Miami architecture using color, shape, curves, negative space, and shadow.

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #miamiarchitecture #shotoniphone 
#abstractphotography
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“Round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien ❤️💛🩵💙💚🩷

#cornerlookup #miami #minimalphotography #shotoniphone
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🟩🟩🟩🟩 Storage facilities amuse me. Buildings made to hold excess somehow become minimal compositions of color, shape, and line. Everyday buildings become abstract compositions.

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #miamistorage #minimalphotography #shotoniphone
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Do you ever pay attention to reflections? They’re so beautiful. 🧡🩷🩵💚

A Wynwood mural by @rrstudiosmiami  reflected across a Tesla windshield — color, shape, light, and perspective creating an entirely new composition.

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #carreflection #shotoniphone
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W. B. Yeats 🌈🖤🩶🤍

Reflections of a @felipepantone mural in #wynwood on a @teslamotors
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“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky 🧡❤️💛🔥

Mural by Brian Peterson at the Miami Rescue Mission in Wynwood.
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“Everything is expressed through relationships of line and color.” - Piet Mondrian 🩵🤍🧡🩶🙌

#shotoniphone #colorblocks 
#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #colorandlight
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I like bringing something into the frame, adding a layer to what’s already there. It starts to feel like a quiet collaboration with the artist or architect. 🧡💙🩵🤍. This is one of my favorite murals in Wynwood. The orange and blue pull everything together.  Mural by my talented friend @davidjunelouf 🙌

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #wynwood
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