The Vault Door

[Barefoot]

I went out on a cold December morning to capture a strange little play of light between two buildings in downtown Columbia that I had discovered the day before. After spending about an hour or so out on the street in the cold, I decided to go find a cup of coffee. I saw a Starbucks sign on the awning of the Sheraton Hotel so I dove inside and got a cup.

While sitting in the lobby drinking my coffee and warming up a bit, something caught my eye. You see, the hotel was once a bank back around the turn of the last century and in the recent renovations that Sheraton made they strove to keep the flavor of the old institution.

What caught my eye was the huge door of the old bank’s vault that is now a lounge on the first floor of the hotel. This is a little of what I came away with from there.