Puerto Vallarta, Part 1

Early last October, I traveled with family to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to spend a week at an all-inclusive resort.  The facility was amazing, as you would expect:  pools, restaurants, spas, activities for adults and kids.

Beyond enjoying all the amenities and time with the family, I began to be intrigued by the poolside views, some of which looked good in black & white, others better in color . . .

On a somewhat smaller scale, I enjoyed photographing the artistic touches in the architecture and the grounds.  For example, all the walkways were delicately decorated with small embedded stones in mosaic-like patterns and lines:

Here's a closer look at some of the work:

All of the rooms have ocean views, so all the hallways are on the landward side of the building.  But every 10-15 feet the exterior wall has sections with small diamond-shaped openings . . .

. . . which at sunrise fill the interior hallway walls and floor with patterns of brilliant light:

But for me the most visually intriguing features on the property were giant antique gold concrete spheres (about 2 feet in diameter) on pedestals around the swimming pool:

You can see them at the very far left and right in this image:

And they unobtrusively appear in almost every image around the pool . . . like Woody Allen's Zelig:

Those of you who are familiar with my photography adventures know that I am a proponent of the strategy of "walking around the teacup" -- photographing an object multiple times from different perspectives and in different light.  So naturally I picked one of the spheres to be my "teacup."  Altogether I made more than 100 images of the sphere over a span of five days.  Here are seven of my favorites (the clouds really helped on a couple of days):

If you would like to view these images in a larger format, please visit my photography website, Todos Juntos Photography, by clicking here.

Enjoy!