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Miami Architecture and the Art of Looking Up While Traveling

Elena Sullivan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:41:53 +0000

I first visited Miami in 2023 during our Thanksgiving vacation. We drove all the way from Atlanta, where we were living at the time. The journey, which we had estimated at seven hours, took fourteen hours, thanks to holiday traffic. By the time we arrived at our Airbnb apartment, we barely had enough energy for dinner before collapsing into bed.

The next morning, after a relaxed breakfast at the hotel-like area of the apartment building, we rushed out to explore the city. My husband had been to Miami multiple times for business, but for me, it was entirely new. And I loved it.

For a photographer like me, who likes to explore, Miami architecture is a visual feast. From the very first steps on the streets, the city’s light, colors, and corners pull you in. Its architecture is distinct, modern, and even somewhat futuristic. Each neighborhood tells a different story: the pastel Art Deco in South Beach, Streamline Modern and high-rise Modernist towers downtown, and mid-century gems hidden in residential areas.

Miami is a city of contrasts, modern yet historical, posh yet playful. Its architecture can mesmerize or repel, depending on what you love. Traveling helps you discover your personal preferences, and for me, walking these streets, craning my neck to the tops of enormous skyscrapers, was a creative and inspiring experience.

Miami Architecture and the Feeling of the City

Architecture is more than structures, it shapes how you feel in a city. Its influence is subtle, emotional, and deeply personal. Different stages of life bring different needs: sometimes, old-world charm soothes; other times, futuristic lines and bold facades energize.

During our last visit, a month before moving to Spain, we stayed in a practical location to pick up visas. CitizenM Hotel in downtown Miami was perfect: modern, sleek, and designed for movement and comfort. (More details about it is in this article “Inside the Bold Hotel Design of citizenM Hotel in Miami South Beach”) The skyscrapers around the hotel evoked strength and empowerment. Their reflective facades mirrored not just light, but ambition, urging reflection on my goals at that stage of life.

Walking past these marvels, I could feel the city’s energy influencing my mood: confidence, ambition, inspiration, and a quiet motivation to pursue creativity. That’s the effect Miami architecture has: it’s about the visual beauty and also the emotions it evokes in those who experience it.

How Miami Architecture Was Styled

Miami’s architecture is a rich blend shaped by both visionary architects and thoughtful urban planning, with distinct styles in different neighbourhoods that give the city its unique visual identity. In Miami Beach, the iconic Art Deco style emerged in the 1920s and 30s, led by architects like Henry Hohauser, L. Murray Dixon, and developers such as Carl Fisher, who envisioned a glamorous, cohesive resort city. Pastel-colored façades, curved corners, and nautical motifs created a style that felt both modern and playful, perfectly suited for a sun-soaked coastal city.

Beyond Art Deco, Modernist and Mid-Century architecture influenced residential neighbourhoods and commercial spaces throughout the city. Architects like Robert Law Weed, Bernard Seidman, and Morris Lapidus brought sleek lines, dramatic curves, and innovative design concepts, including Lapidus’ world-famous Fontainebleau Miami Beach, which introduced Miami Modern (MiMo) style with theatrical lobbies and playful, exaggerated forms.

Downtown Miami and other districts developed more organically, mixing high-rise modernist towers with commercial and residential projects, creating a contrast between luxury, modernity, and historical touches. The city never had a single master plan, but through a combination of developer-led initiatives, zoning regulations, and the creativity of individual architects, Miami evolved into a city where every neighbourhood offers a distinct visual experience.

A Creative’s Guide to Experiencing Miami Architecture

If it’s your first time exploring Miami, approach it like a photographer or creative, let your eyes wander and scan for details that tell the city’s story:

Contrast of old and new: Notice how Art Deco façades meet modern skyscrapers, and how mid-century residential homes coexist with high-rise commercial towers. Each neighbourhood has its own identity: South Beach is playful and pastel-colored, Downtown is sleek and modern, Coral Gables offers tree-lined streets and Mediterranean-inspired designs.
Façade details, corners, and textures: Decorative tiles, wrought-iron balconies, neon signs, and playful signage all create opportunities for framing unique shots. Small elements can dramatically enhance your photography.
Light and reflections: Miami’s sunshine interacts with glass, water, and polished surfaces, creating dynamic, ever-changing compositions. At night, the business district comes alive. Its illuminated skyscrapers and streets are especially striking, perfect for light trail photography and capturing the city’s energy after dark.
Technical tips: Bring a tripod for night photography. Use a telephoto lens to isolate distant details or frame creative perspectives. One of the best spots for night photography is Downtown Miami’s business district where the tall buildings lit up at night produce incredible reflections, making it a perfect location for practicing light trail photography and capturing stunning cityscapes.
Explore slowly on foot: Pause often, lift your eyes, and let the city guide your movement (more helpful info about is in this article “The city becomes your companion when you travel alone”). Observing slowly helps you notice patterns, hidden gems, and the subtle character of each neighborhood.

Where We Stayed on Our Trips to Miami

CitizenM Hotels (Downtown & South Beach): These hotels are designed for travelers who value efficiency and style. Tiny rooms maximize space while communal areas: co-working lounges, dining spaces, and art installations, encourage creativity and reflection. CitizenM collaborates with local artists, blending the hotel’s design with the city’s vibe. Lights, music, and curtains are all controlled by a tablet, offering a futuristic, immersive experience. More visual details about CitizenM hotel is in my video “Why Everyone Is Talking About the Tiny Hotel Rooms at CitizenM Miami South Beach Florida?“

Airbnb near 1 Hotel South Beach: Our apartment was simple but functional. Staying there allowed us to enjoy the hotel’s rustic-modern interiors, bars, and restaurants while having a private retreat. The design was calming yet inspired curiosity, demonstrating how Miami architecture influences daily life. More details in the article “Modern hotel decoration ideas for a stylish stay”

How Architecture Affects Your Perception as a Photographer

I fell in love with photographing architecture after moving to Atlanta, where high-rises and cityscapes inspired endless experimentation (One of the result is a photo print “Midnight in Atlanta”). Miami offered a similar, yet distinct, challenge: diverse styles, reflective surfaces, and dynamic light conditions.

Walking the streets or rooftop areas, I felt the city pulling me in, wrapping me in its rhythm. Angles shifted unexpectedly, shadows danced across façades, and reflections multiplied, creating fleeting moments of magic. The architecture felt like a companion, offering stories and details that anyone who looks closely could discover and interpret in their own way.

Could You Live in Miami?

“Could I live here?” It’s a question that naturally comes up when traveling. Walking the streets, exploring the buildings, imagining life within these spaces, it’s fun to ask yourself and discuss with a travel partner.

Miami is visually mesmerizing and beautiful in its own way. But I can’t imagine living there permanently. It’s too big for me, too modern, and too fast-paced. That’s why Spain is my home now: a city where art, history, and human-scale architecture offer balance. But Miami’s architectural energy will always inspire ambition, offering lessons in light, design, and creativity.

All images in this article were taken by Elena Sullivan, ArsVie Photo Studio and are protected by copyright. If you are interested in using any of the them, please contact me for permission. Thank you for understanding!

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Photography’s New Vision A Photo Exhibition That Changes How We See

Elena Sullivan — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:52:44 +0000

Muted light drifts in,

shadows shift and stretch.

The past speaks softly,

like a friend across the table,

reminding you to look again.

If you love a good photo exhibition, you know it’s not just about pictures on the wall, it’s about stories, details, and surprises that make you pause. At the High Museum of Art Atlanta, the new show Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing promises exactly that.

I’ve been a member of the High Museum of Art Atlanta for several years now, and together with my husband, we’ve wandered through many of their temporary exhibitions. They’re always so thoughtfully curated, a mix of history, surprise, and moments that stay with you. One show that still lingers in my mind was last year’s “Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” I remember walking out with that rare feeling of deep satisfaction, like I had been transported into another world.

Now, the museum is presenting something completely different but just as compelling: “Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing,” on view from June 13, 2025, through January 4, 2026. If you’re searching for a thought-provoking photo exhibition in Atlanta, this one deserves a spot on your list.

Photo Exhibition "Photography's New Vision" in the High Museum of Art Atlanta

The “Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing” photo exhibition at the High Museum brings this history to life, uniting more than one hundred works from its photography collection. What struck me most while reading about it is how relevant it feels today. Just like the 1920s, our 2020s are marked by rapid technological change, global uncertainty, and shifting ways of communicating. Then and now, artists turned to photography not just to document the world, but to reimagine it, to remind us there are always other ways of seeing.

Walking through the gallery feels electrifyingly curious, like a puzzle for the eye, with a sublime aftertaste that lingers even after you’ve left. Many of the photo works play with geometry: sharp lines, abstract shapes, and shadows captured through unexpected angles of light.

Some photos feel almost poetic, like a large print of electricity resembling the delicate outline of human palms “Lightning Fields 182” by Hiroshi Sugimoto or “Sea Palms” by Wynn Bullock. Others are unsettling. I paused at an image of hands on a boat that carried the chilling tension of a horror movie (“Untitled” Ralph Gibson). But then, remembering that Surreality artistic movement emerged after World War I, the mood made sense: the world itself was filled with uncertainty, darkness, and the desire to see differently.

Hiroshi Sugimoto “Lighting Fields 182” 2009 Gelatin silver print Inspired by William Henry Fox Talbot, an inventor of photography who was fascinated with electromagnetic conduction, Hiroshi Sugimoto began applying charges of electricity directly to unexposed photographic film. After months of honing his technique in the darkroom, he managed to achieve remarkable results with a handheld wand charged by a generator. His Lightning Fields photographs are made without a camera or lens. Here, the abstract visual trace of an electric charge measuring over 400,000 volts sweeps across the composition, reading like the textures of a human hand, the upward tentacles of a fern, or the stark branches of a tree.

IFrancis Bruguière The Light That Never Was on Land or Sea, ca. 1925 Gelatin silver print Francis Bruguière created this image by cutting sheets of paper into sculptural shapes and then moving a light source around the paper while keeping the camera lens open for a long exposure time. In the resulting photograph, the paper appears ethereal, as though emanating light from within. Bruguière took several exposures to capture the different patterns of light on the paper's surface. His transformation of light into abstract forms gives the intangible subject an illusion of solidity, weight, and volume.

Wynn Bullock "Sea Palms", 1968 Gelatin silver print Wynn Bullock experimented with exposure and perspective to render this landscape with a disorienting, ambiguous scale. The sea palms appear to be full-size trees sitting atop a fog-filled gorge; in reality, they are kelp plants clinging to tidal rocks. By leaving his camera lens open while waves washed over the scene, Bullock translated the micro into the macro to make visible a reality that transcends a single moment. His early career as a singer took him to Europe in 1929, where he encountered avant-garde imagery by László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, inspiring him to make his first photographs.

One photograph that held me longest was “Line of Sight Drawing” by Gretchen Hupfel, a collage of transmission towers captured with a Polaroid camera. Their lines tangled into a kind of industrial lace, mesmerizing in their complexity. I caught myself trying to count each one, tracing their intersections, before turning to the artist’s note. She explained her fascination with the structures we pass every day but rarely notice. That struck me. It reminded me of why I love macro photography: flowers (like “Peaceful Bloom”), textures (like “Leaf Labyrinth”), little fragments of beauty that so often escape our busy eyes. Both are about the same thing: slowing down and really seeing.

Gretchen Hupfel “Line of Sight Drawing”, 1999 Diffusion transfer prints with ink In the 1990s, Gretchen Hupfel began photographing transmission towers using a Polaroid camera. She observed that "these gigantic structures are everywhere and yet invisible-the proliferation of this architecture has happened without notice. People don't see them or at least pay no attention." Hupfel assembled her studies of towers into large grids and made intricate, weblike line drawings connecting each tower, suggesting an invisible modern net within which humans exist. Her interest in repetition, systems, and logic led her to develop a complex set of rules to shape the final forms of her works.

Astrid Reischwitz “Secrets, from the Spin Club Tapestry” series, 2019 Pigmented inkjet print with handsewn embroidery “Four Did Not Return”, from the Spin Club Tapestry series, 2019 Pigmented inkjet print with handsewn embroidery Inspired by traditional spin clubs (Spinneklümpe) in Northern Germany where she grew up, Astrid Reischwitz creates photographic tapestries embellished with her own needlework. In these clubs, women gather to spin wool and stitch while sharing stories where narratives of past and present merge. Reischwitz echoes this in her work by combining historic and contemporary photographs of the town and its residents with images of fabrics passed down through generations. She collaborates with the makers of those fabrics by adding in stitched patterns. The title Four Did Not Return refers to an inscription on the back of the photograph indicating the tragic postwar future for the lighthearted group.

Hans-Christian Schink “2/26/2010, 7:54 am-8:54 am, S 36°49.622′ E 175°47.340’” (Cathedral Cove), 2010 Gelatin silver print Since 2005, Hans-Christian Schink has carried his large view camera to locations around the world to capture the trail of the sun over a one-hour exposure. The long exposure causes an in-camera solarization that inverts the sun's light and is rendered black in the print, revealing the sun's normally unnoticed trail across the sky. The photograph's detailed title reveals the exact location, date, and time of day the negative was exposed. Schink's lush, mystical work fuses the aesthetics of nineteenth-century travel photography with a contemporary approach.

And maybe that’s the real gift of this Photography’s New Vision High Museum exhibition. It doesn’t hand you easy answers. Instead, it asks you to pause, look differently, and question how you see the world around you.

Almost like an invitation to train your eyes and maybe even your heart to notice more.

Abelardo Morell “Camera Obscura: View of Philadelphia from Loews Hotel Room #3013 with Upside Down Bed”, April 14th, 2014 Pigmented inkjet print Abelardo Morell is renowned for photographs that evoke visual surprise and wonder. He is best known for his use of the room-sized camera obscura, an ancient optical device that projects exterior views onto interior spaces. To create his camera obscura images, he covers windows with black plastic and pokes a 3/8-inch hole in the material. The outside world is projected upside down onto a wall, and he uses a camera inside the room to document this melding of interior and exterior. Here, he has flipped the image 180 degrees to create a dreamlike scene where the hotel bed floats above the city's skyline.

For someone museums like the High Museum of Art is just another gallery filled with objects. I see museums as guardians of vision, preserving the past and also showcasing the human need to experiment, to push, to imagine new ways of seeing. And in a time when life feels faster, noisier, and more distracted than ever, stepping into a space like this feels like a reset.

Because in the end, that’s what art does best: it slows us down, surprises us, and reminds us that meaning often hides in the smallest details.

P.S. If you enjoy a good photo exhibition, you might also like peeking at mine: “Refreshing Whispers of Bloom,” my solo show about macro photography displayed in Alpharetta, GA. I shared a little summary of it in this article. It’s close to my heart flowers, light, and the small details of beauty that whisper when you pause to notice.

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Through a Vintage Film Camera I Found Time Again

Elena Sullivan — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:38:52 +0000

Taking photos with old vintage film camera for the first time felt like stepping into another era, a world slower, quieter, more deliberate. It was frustrating, yes, but also strangely illuminating.

The mechanics of my used film camera Minolta caught me off guard. On my digital camera, the focus dances wherever I wish, quick and effortless. But with film, it stayed fixed. Such a small difference, yet it changed everything: how I framed, how I moved, how I saw. I had to think twice, maybe three times, before pressing the shutter. Suddenly, each photograph felt less like an impulse and more like a decision.

And then came the real test: thirty-six exposures. Just thirty-six. Digital spoils us with endless clicking: trial and error, rapid-fire bursts, the safety of delete buttons. Film does the opposite. It asks for restraint. Every shot mattered. Holding my old film camera I found myself pacing, circling, watching the light shift across a face, a street, a wall, and asking: is this really worth one of my frames? Many times, the answer was no. And strangely, saying no felt like a kind of freedom.

I feel like, this experience with my Minolta film camera brought me closer to the heart of photography.

Film captures intention. There’s no instant feedback, no glowing screen to reassure or correct. You press the shutter, and then you wait. Mistakes stay hidden until the roll is developed, sometimes days or weeks later. That delay is humbling. It teaches patience, self-trust, and reverence for the craft. Each frame must be earned.

It made me realize how easy it is to be careless with digital. We lean on excess, on luck, on endless editing after the fact. But film insists that you show up fully. It doesn’t forgive laziness. Its limits are gifts. They force you to slow down, to see more deeply, to respect the moment before it slips away.

Falling in Love With the Nostalgia of Vintage Film Cameras

Every click on film feels like a promise. A commitment. When the photo finally emerges (like this one – Timeless Flow), it carries the weight of that choice. It more than just an image, it’s a small triumph, the proof that you trusted your eye and your instincts enough to wait for it.

Film whispers the value of patience, intention, and quiet artistry, virtues so easily lost in the world of instant everything. It reminds me that photography is less about chasing perfection; but more about presence.

Holding that roll of Fujifilm in my hand, knowing it holds moments I cannot yet see, feels almost sacred. It’s a reminder that beauty often lives in the waiting, and that some rewards are meant to arrive slowly.

If you’ve ever loaded film into a camera, you know the magic I’m talking about, that mix of anticipation, discipline, and wonder. I’d love to hear what it taught you. Share in comments.

P.S. This first roll of film and the camera itself also awakened something unexpected in me, a strange fascination with retro vintage cameras. I’ve always loved history and art, and vintage objects carry so much of both. But holding a film camera as a photographer was different. It stirred something deeply nostalgic and a little romantic.

Soon, I found myself deliberately searching through the “vintage” category on eBay, hunting for old film cameras with character. After much browsing, I bought one… then another. Now, I have a small collection of five film cameras, each with its own story, its own weight, its own soul.

There’s an immense charm in simply looking at them: the brass details worn smooth by time, the leather grips carrying traces of past hands, the mechanical click of a shutter that feels more like music than machinery. They’re pieces of history, artifacts of an era when photography was slower, deliberate, and tangible. Owning them feels like owning fragments of another time.

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Sunset beach wedding on horses in Isla Holbox Mexico

Elena Sullivan — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:37:23 +0000

Sunset beach wedding

It was magic! In all the profound sense of this word. Everything that happened during this beautiful sunset beach wedding in Isla Holbox in Mexico was touched by magic. The way the sunset unfolded and started blooming with golden, purple, and red, how the bride Vanessa gracefully arrived at the ceremony on a horse, the softness of the warm sea washing over our feet, the sound of seagulls flying somewhere towards the horizon, the serenity of the beach ambiance, the promises they gave each other. I will forever remember this sunset beach wedding in Isla Holbox. It was the first one I photographed on a small island located five hours from Cancun and one of the last ones I did while living in Mexico.

My memories of their wedding are still vibrant and lively like it happened yesterday. I close my eyes and see them standing in the water, myself walking around them, clicking the shutter button, capturing their smiles and eyes reflecting love and deep connection. Do I imagine all these details, or is that photography magic at work? I know the answer; it’s magic. Photography captures light – beautiful, sincere, gentle, and love is light. Whenever there is love, there is light, and where is a light and creative photographer with a camera, amazing photos are guaranteed.

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Tips for bride and groom planning a sunset beach wedding in Isla Holbox.

When you plan a sunset beach wedding, it’s easy to predict everything except the weather and the sunset quality. You can view the weather forecast every day and still get a surprise from nature, either pleasant or not. That’s why always have plan B in mind and discuss it with your wedding planner or friends who help you to organize a wedding.

Vanessa found me searching for a Cancun photographer on Google, contacted me via one of my websites, and booked my photography service half a year in advance. That’s the best timeframe for booking a photographer for Isla Holbox wedding. They had an intimate wedding, with just four friends present, and they had a blast! Fewer guests mean more quality time for yourself and the one that traveled to share that happiness with you. They didn’t have a wedding planner, and the owner of the villa Casa Libélula Beach Front House they rented helped with wedding flowers. Once they arrived on the island several days prior, they found a restaurant for the wedding reception. Since there were only six people, making a reservation for a specific date was easy, even at short notice. The ceremony was at 7.00 PM (end of August) in front of the villa, a perfect time for a beautiful sunset beach wedding in Isla Holbox. Photos in front of colorful houses we took before the ceremony, driving around downtown on a rented golf cart.

Yes! A beautiful bride riding a horse is a fairy tale that can also turn into reality for you. Just note that officially, horses are not allowed to walk into the sea in Isla Holbox, so you have to make a “special arrangement” with the owners of a horse, which my beautiful clients did, several hours prior to the wedding. And it’s another example of magic!

In the Caribbean side of Mexico, there are several places where you can expect to have a beautiful sunset beach wedding. One is Isla Holbox; others are Isla Mujeres and Cozumel Islands. My favorite is Isla Mujeres (translated as “Island of Woman”) for its balanced combination of beaches, rocks, beautiful sea, stunning sunsets on the North side, and equally gorgeous sunrise on the South side. When you fly to Cancun International Airport, it will take you:

2 hours to get to Isla Mujeres
4-5 hours to get to Cozumel or Isla Holbox

The timeline is approximate and depends on the day of the week, means of transportation, and ferry schedule. All three islands require using a ferry at some point. Isla Holbox has the least advanced ferry, and first, you’ll have to get to Chiquila town.

Things to keep in mind when you travel to Isla Holbox:

WI-FI is extremely slow and often disconnects
There is no pavement on the roads, so specks of dust in the air are common.
For transportation purposes, only golf carts and bicycles are allowed.
There are NO big shopping stores (think Walmart, Kroger, etc.), only small, locally-owned stores.
Bring some local cash. Several ATMs are on the island, but what if they don’t work?! Which might happen on a small island.
Use mosquito repellent in the evening. On a wedding day, ask your friends to keep one in the purse if someone needs extra protection. Those little, flying aggressors can go wild, especially in the summer.
One thing I constantly repeated to my brides: “Please, know that it’s scorching in Isla Holbox, and it’s easy to get sunburned, so use extra sun protection before the wedding.” I also underlined it in my contracts, so they pay special attention to this matter. Photoshop is all mighty but also has limits, and sunburn removal can cost you extra money. So, take extra special care of your skin when walking under the sun in Isla Holbox.

Tips for destination photographers.

Congratulations if you’ve been invited to capture Isla Holbox sunset beach wedding! I’m sure you will have a wonderful time traveling there and taking photos. It’s a wild, beautiful island where you can still find some pristine nature and drive on a golf cart to spots that few people visited before you.

As a destination photographer, I stayed two nights on the island in the Bhoga Boutique Hotel, which was 5 minutes from the villa and the nearest beach. It’s a nicely designed property with slow WI-FI and wood termites that live and feed in the wood ceiling. I noticed them on the bed in the morning, but it didn’t make sense to change rooms because every room at the hotel has the same wood ceiling. So, do you in-depth research when booking a hotel in Isla Holbox.

I used a Nikon d750 with two lenses, Nikkor 16-35 and Nikkor 24-70. My favorite sunset wedding is the second. I used manual exposure program, f 6.3 aperture, and 1/250 shutter speed during the ceremony and f.4 aperture, and 1/160 shutter speed for late sunset photos. I don’t use Flash. Instead, I often use YONGNUO YN360 LED Video Light, which helps to preserve all the shadows and show dimension. Flash adds some flatness to the image, which I try to avoid. But Flash or LED light is always a matter of personal taste and the photographer’s style.

All the beaches in Mexico are federal property, which means you can take photos at any of them. The trick is to find access to the beach. Some of the most beautiful beaches are part of hotels or private villas, so access is restricted. In Isla Holbox, it’s less common than in Cancun or Playa del Carmen, where hotels are more aggressive to outside vendors and photographers. So, confirm with the wedding planner and couple what beach area you can access.

There is no pavement on the roads, so specks of dust are everywhere downtown. If you rent a golf cart to drive around and take photos with the couple, protect your lenses (more than ever!) and keep the cleaning kit handy. I had to clean my lenses three-five times while we were downtown. You might not see specks of dust while taking photos, but it’s there! Trust me, I’ve been there and was unpleasantly surprised when I checked my lenses twenty minutes after we started the photoshoot!

Although specks of dust might disappoint you, the downtown in Holbox is lavish with colorful houses, art murals, and local scenery of daily life, all worth capturing and incorporating into wedding photos. I took the photos of houses you see in this gallery downtown. As a reference point, use the dome, a place for local music events and art festivals. Several blocks around the dome’s circumference, you’ll see colorful houses and walls with paintings.

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