Window views at MOCA

Over the weekend, we visited MOCA, Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art, located in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. The museum has resided in several locations over its 100-year history. Currently, it is situated in a converted building that was formerly the Western Union’s offices. While the Art Deco building possesses architectural interest, the large, prominent windows posed challenges to designing appropriate galleries. However, the remaining accessible windows offer unique views of neighboring downtown structures.

The image below depicts another repurposed historic building across the street, which was formerly a hotel and now serves as the Jacksonville city hall.

While visitors primarily come to view the art, I found both the art and the window views enjoyable.

Shadow

From the other side.

Peek inside

Metro

Live oak

Mural

Science fiction

Unusual because those are obviously not accurate colors. 

I shot this on my recent cruise on the top deck. I liked the white radar domes (I guess) against the pale blue sky with the subtile clouds on the horizon. But... I shot this with my iPhone and I had been messing with controls and did not realize in the bright morning light that the photos were taken in black & white, and not in RAW so I was disappointed to find the attractiveness of that sky was lost.

And so, frustrated, I started fiddling with the photo and created masks and added colors to create this otherworldly image. I was planning to do this in Photoshop but found I was able to achieve the look using only LightRoom.

So it is a gimmick, but a unique image nonetheless.

Splash