Key West - Instagram Diary

 1. Some architectural details we discovered on our little roadtrip to Key West.

 2.  Power lines in the water and.....SHARK!

3.  Seven Mile Bridge and P. with a barracuda.

4.  All things nautical and roosters everywhere in Key West.

 5.  Could totally get used to Christmas in the Keys.

 6.  Some pretty sights.

7.  Had the best seafood dinner here for my birthday - THE best crabcake in my life.

8. Totally in love with Christmas in Key West!

9.   A little sun & sand.

10.  A little Key West history.

 11.  Hemingway and his polydactyl cats.

12.  The lighthouse and a woman with a pineapple.

 13.  We passed by this beautiful white church many times; sunlight on the cemetery.

14.  Watching the sunset at Mallory Square.

15.  A funny sign and a X-Mas tree built from lobster traps - amazing!

16.  We saw an alligator driving back to Miami on my birthday.


Back to editing photos from Florida after a spending some time on New York photos - so nice to be able to revisit pretty, idyllic Key West right now, even if it's just through photographs.

Winter Days

Despite the colourful strings of Christmas lights warming the cozy corners of every neighbourhood and brightly lit trees around New York, I felt compelled to take black & white photos during our visit in December.  I may have been subtly influenced by the "Picasso Black and White" exhibit we saw at the Guggenheim but there was something about the way people huddled against the bone-chilling cold in their furs and hats and the mostly grey days where night seemed to come very early that made made me want to strip away colour.  Also, now that I mainly shoot with a digital camera, I suddenly missed the days of loading a roll of B&W film into my camera and seeing the world in black & white for a while.

1. Salvation Army workers, Lexington Ave  2. Woman in fur stole, 5th Ave  3. Washington Square Park  4. Death Is Free            5. Late afternoon, Madison Ave  6. Sunlight, Madison Ave  7. Woman with  double breasted coat, Madison Ave                   8. Girl skipping on sidewalk with her mom, Upper East Side  9. Star ornament, 5th Ave  10. Men in a cigar lounge, 6th Ave  11. Traffic, 6th Ave  12. Lights like stars, 6th Ave  13. Bergdorf Goodman window  14. Radio City Music Hall  15. Hello Kitty, 6th Ave  16.  New York City Santa with bling  17. View of Chrysler building from Chelsea                18. Washington Square, night  19. Crosswalk, Chelsea  20. Cheap suits, Chelsea  21. Man with furry lapels, Chelsea            22. Dresses in a shop window, West Village  23. Christmas trees for sale, West Village  24. Christmas window, West Village 25.  West Village restaurant  26. Fire Escape, 8th Ave  & 30th St  27. Woman near Macy's, 7th Ave  28. Woman walking, 8th Ave  29. Psychic, West Village  30. Nighttime in Soho