I have a bunch of stuff that I have been working on so it has taken me awhile to get to processing my St Augustine pictures.  I am finally starting to work my way through them and there are quite a few I am excited about.  We hit a lot of the tourist attractions while we were visiting and I tried to capture them as well as I could with the crowds that are constantly around.  The first shot is the Lightner Museum which used to be the Alcazar Hotel.  It was built in 1887, from the design of New York City architects Carrère and Hastings, in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style. The firm also designed the Ponce de León Hotel across the street (now part of Flagler College). Both buildings are notable as being among the earliest examples of poured concrete buildings in the world. The hotel boasted a steam room, massage parlor, gymnasium, and sulfur baths, a three-story ballroom, and the world’s largest indoor swimming pool. However, after years as an elegant winter resort for wealthy patrons, the hotel closed in 1932. In 1946, Chicago publisher Otto C. Lightner purchased the building to house his extensive collection of Victoriana. He opened the museum two years later, and later donated it to the city of St. Augustine. The second shot is of the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse.  Inside the schoolhouse there is a classroom with an animatronic teacher and students that give a little description of the way the school worked.  This is a shot that could not be captured well without HDR in my opinion.