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.
Miami Beach video
Here is a small video I put together from our trip to Miami Beach last year.
Nanuk 935 on Miami Beach
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Miami Beach Lifeguard Shack
I’m taking a break from urban exploration and Ukraine photos for a second. Here is something a little happier.
I took this series of photos during a past trip to the beach. Per my normal routine, I got up early several mornings to capture the sunrise. This was a great morning and the lifeguard shacks helped make for an interesting subject. I also posted a behind the scenes video below of this morning.
South Beach Fun
What a mess the last two years have been. Regardless of the worldwide disaster, we’ve had some good experiences during that time. One of them was a trip to Miami Beach. During one evening we went to South Beach to have dinner and I captured these photos at sunset.
Miami Beach Hot Spot
Up and down Miami Beach they have these amazing Art Deco Lifeguard shacks of all shapes and colors. I captured a bunch of photos as you can probably guess. I loved them all.
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.
Breakwater
This wonderful Art Deco restaurant is part of South Beach Miami. MJ and I had dinner near here and enjoyed a nice walk back to our hotel beyond party central. Of course, as we walked, I snapped a bunch of pictures
The Carlyle
I haven’t been posting much lately, I just need a little break. So, please hang in there with me for a little bit.
Anyway, here is a photo I took a couple months ago of The Carlyle in South Beach Miami.
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Miami Beach Pool
What more can I say? This is, what it is. Confidante Hotel and Spa in Mid-Beach area of Miami Beach.
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.
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.
