I’m still trying to recover from the 4 action packed days, sun up to sun down, covering this event. Here are a few track side photos from the Grand Prix on Sunday.
Miami Beach Lifeguard Shacks
A combination of drone and land-based photos from our last Miami trip. I tried to photograph the lifeguard shacks at different times of the day.
Everglades Safari
During a past Florida trip, MJ and I completed an Everglades tour on one of these air boats. It was cool, but not exactly as interesting as I thought it would be. I’m not sure what I thought would happen or what we’d see, but it was “ho-hum”.
Note, the tour operator was great. I just wasn’t as impressed with the Everglades swamp as I expected….. Maybe because it wasn’t drained (that’s a joke, let’s not get political).
Miami's Big Ball
Sunrise from Miami Beach earlier this year. I loved all the different Art Deco designed lifeguard shacks up and down the beach.
Marco Beach
Yesterday I posted a sunset time lapse video from my hotel balcony. Today I have a sunset photo from the same spot on Marco Island Florida.
Marco Island Sunset Time Lapse
Here is a quick time lapse I captured this week in Marco Island. The sunset wasn’t great on this night, but I loved the clouds…. I captured this from the hotel balcony. It was a shame we had to come back.
Colony Hotel
Not much I can say about this photo that you can’t see for yourself. This is, of course, a great example of South Beach Art Deco architecture during the pandemic.
South Beach
I took this photo during our last trip to Florida. MJ and I took an Uber down Miami Beach to have dinner and afterward I captured the sunset behind this famous stretch of South Beach.
30th Street
Another great Miami Beach art deco lifeguard shack.
Miami Beach Lookdown
I took this drone photo right after sunrise near Mid-Beach. You can see a few people walking on the beach along with the seagulls. I love the colors, textures, layers and patterns in this photo.
Faena Mammoth
I found this beauty, pre-trip while doing research of cool photography spots around Miami Beach. I almost always research photo spots before traveling. Anyway, I found this guy and put him on my “Photo Wish List”. I did something at this spot that I don’t think I’ve ever done. I went back to this spot three different times in 30 hours, trying to photograph it in the best light. This first time I went, it was late in the afternoon and all I got was reflections off the glass from the sun, which I should have thought about in advance. The second time was right before sunrise the next morning, when I captured this photo. I couldn’t stay as long as I wanted (I was hoping to capture it closer to sunrise), but security ran me off. So, I thought I missed an opportunity and probably didn’t get any good photos. Therefore, I went back again later that day right before sunset, hoping to capture a good shot. I used polarizing filters, wide angle lens, zoom lens, and many other technics to minimize the glare off the glass. Turns out the best time was this shot before sunrise. At least that was the best shot I captured, I’m sure a better photographer would have captured this better all three times.
Note: Artist Damien Hirst created this with a real mammoth skeleton, gold PVD covered stainless steel, powder-coated steel, rubber and gold leaf. You don’t see many Mammoth Skeletons in many hotels….but they have one at the Faena Hotel Miami Beach.
41st Street Lifeguard Shack
Miami has very cool lifeguard stations along Miami Beach. I don’t know how many variations they have, but they are all a wonderful Art Deco style. This is the one at 41st Street during sunrise.
If someone watched me while I photographed this spot, I”m sure they wondered what was wrong with me. I didn’t have time during the sunrise to photograph multiple lifeguard shacks, they are too far apart. So, I probably took 500 photos of this one from different perspective, different light (before, during and after the sunrise), different cameras, etc.. I’m sure they thought I lost my mind….. Maybe I did, but I think the final product was worth it. Oh…and the homeless people sleeping under the lifeguard shack probably wondered about me as well.
Suwannee River
Hello Monday!! I took this photo last August while I was in Florida at a family member’s house. That area of the state is very rural with lots of wilderness and nothingness. This county has less than 9,000 total people according to the 2010 Census. In fact (according to Wikipedia), this county is the 2nd least populous in the state of Florida. Anyway, there is something very pretty about the Suwannee River from the ground and certainly from the air. By the way, in case you’re wondering, this river is approximately 246 miles long.
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Everglades National Park
Here is another photo from our Everglades National Park visit. Most of the park that we experienced via the airboat looked like this. Simple and beautiful!!
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Gator
During a recent trip to Florida, MJ and I went to the Everglades National Park for our first time. I have no idea how many times we’ve been to Florida in the past…. But the number of visits is way up there. Maybe 50 plus times….. I’m not sure… let’s just call it a bunch. So why it took so long for us to visit the Everglades is beyond me. We enjoyed the visit and I took this photo of this gator that climbed out of the water about 15 feet from us. It decided to sun itself and left us alone…and we left it alone.
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Elephant Octopus
The Wynwood Walls area of Miami is so cool. As you know from my past picture of this area, the city converted this abandoned area into an artist display exhibit. There are now a ton of amazing murals created by the best graffiti artists in the world. They rotate topnotch artists so that it is always changing. If you visit it again down the road, the murals (graffiti) will be changed.
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Wynwood Walls
Sangrias
During our last trip through Fort Lauderdale Florida, MJ and I had lunch at this beach side restaurant and bar. To my surprise, they had an huge neon Yuengling inside the place. So getting a Yuengling was tempting, but I went with this extra large drink instead.
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Wynwood Fans
Today’s post is another photo from the Wynwood Walls area of Miami. I love this area of the city. The artwork is amazing and the creative use of old abandoned facilities is cool. This space is an art exhibit using old fans and color.
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Art Exhibit in the Wynwood Walls area of Miami
Wynwood Walls
Earlier this year, I spent a few days in Miami and I got the opportunity to photograph the very cool Wynwood Walls. This area of the city is covered with wonderful graffiti by gifted artists. These artists are sponsored and paid to create their art in this area. Today’s post is from that night. I got so many great photos that night.
Wynwood Walls in Miami Florida
Miami Port Sunrise
This might not be a popular photo with most of you, but I like it a ton. Maybe because I was there watching the sun come up in Miami from the back of a cruise boat. There is always something special about experiencing an event vs. seeing it in a photo. That may be a funny thing to read from a photographer, but its how I feel about the subject. Don’t get me wrong, I always try to capture the moment, but admittedly I fail more times then I succeed. It’s very hard to capture the feeling, emotion, and senses you experience in a photo. This photo is a great example. The photo can’t capture the warm breeze as it blew past our cabin balcony. The photo can’t capture how I felt as the sun came up. The buildings went from being in the shadows of the night, to reflecting a beautiful orange glow of the morning.
Anyway, there are usually a ton of reasons why I like some photos that might not seem wonderful at first glance. But they all have meaning for me and that is often why I share them with you.
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