Knock on Red

This is the entrance from the street leading down to the Hiro Ballroom, a music and dining venue below the Maritime Hotel in the Meatpacking District of New York City. The rustic red wall is adorned with various brass door knockers set in a geometric pattern… which one should we use to gain entry?

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Shelved Applause

Walking through the maze-like alleys and ‘streets’ of Venice, Italy, you’ll discover a number of stores the likes of which you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere. Case in point is this luxury glove store, tucked into the elbow of an alley… perhaps the hands are all applauding the fact that we actually found our way to the store? Doubtful, but it’s a fabulous colorful display nonetheless.

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Six Candles

The wall of this event space in the wine growing area of the southwestern Cape region, near Cape Town, South Africa, was adorned with these 6 brick-mounted candles. Symmetry and minimalism all in one, even if the candles are a little skew here and there.

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This Way Down

The Chelsea Market, in New York City’s Meatpacking district has been reinvented into an artisan store paradise. This funky retro lighted directional arrow shows the way to more stores downstairs.

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Trunks Full Of Dreams

Visiting Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York harbor allows a fascinating peek into the history of what makes a Country of immigrants what it is. The trunks and cases stacked in this display reminds us that people who made that journey very seldom had much more to their names, and possessed mainly hopes and dreams for a bright and prosperous new beginning.

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Pink on Purple

Minimalism at its sweet and simple best! This pink lamp adorns the purple wall of a house in DeWaterkant in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Lemon and Lavender

Minimalism is a fascinating discipline in photography, and it’s great when one finds such clean, colorful and perfect examples to photograph. This planter is attached to the side of a brightly colored house in DeWatekant, in Cape Town, South Africa. Lemon and Lavender may be the image’s title, but it’s quite obvious that there are neither lemons nor lavender present, it merely refers to the color of the wall and the flowers.

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Magic in the Window

While visiting a theme park with a section dedicated to ‘a certain young magician’, this visual looking out through the rippled glass window of the magic store, created an interesting and slightly abstracted detail of what can be found inside the store. Step inside and find out…

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Light Urchin

This light was a feature in the ceiling of a bygone restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey. The spikes of the piece looked like a sea urchin, a rather ominous looking piece of decorating, but the effect is like a beautiful explosion of light.

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Dis-a-pier

The Hudson River which divides New York State and New Jersey, was in years gone by a bustling and grimy port, with dozens of piers on both sides serving the many arriving and departing commercial ships. In time virtually all commercial traffic has disappeared from the Hoboken side, and while some piers have been reclaimed for parks, others (as seen in this image) were left as piling remnants, which help promote marine life in the river, giving a whole new purpose to the disappearing piers.

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