Miami by night takes on a very different character than Miami by day. As impressive as the Art Deco architecture of Miami’s South Beach is during the daylight hours, it dons a very different costume past the crepuscular hour and becomes a dizzying concoction of dancing neon lights and soft glows that entice the passerby to come closer and explore the usually invisible interiors, and to see Miami in a whole new way. The squat, broad-leafed palm trees and azure sky stop being the centre of attention, and life begins to swirl and blossom in a profusion of delectable tones that make you want to capture a piece of it to take home.
Night time photography is always an interesting challenge as low light levels and flashing bright lights can tax even the best of equipment, and the most proficient of photographers. But it’s a challenge I enjoy and launch into with concerted enthusiasm, ever trying to capture the magical glow that I’m seeing at that moment.
South Beach, Miami, Florida, January 2016.
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I love the hot pocket of warm tones centered in the midst of the greens and cyan tones that cool the street. Your description was lovely and accurate as well. Wonderful work.
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Thank you my love. 🙂
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I’d say you succeeded, very nicely. You caught the inside, and by contrast the outside—one warm and unaware, peaceful; the other remote and colder … and if you let your eyes roam out through the roof, the colder still yet patient detachment of the latticework. Furthermore: boom boom~!
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Thank you, Argie. I’m glad you like it.
I like that this image seems to evoke something philosophical, and perhaps slightly left of mundane. 🙂
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Certainly it does, Ma’am.
If out on my own I’d often spend a lot of time with good wine and scenes like this. You’ve caught it.
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Sounds like a wonderful way to pass the time. 🙂
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Two photos in one. From the bottom up to the green guttering just above the black wriggly line (awning?) is one shot; the latticework added makes an entirely new shot. )))))
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Ooh, I hadn’t noticed that. I shall have to take a closer look.
I think the lattice work was just that. Some kind of fascia rather than an awning. Though I’m not entirely sure from memory.
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Looking more closerer at the image I realise that the lattice work is actually a balcony. How lovely to have a balcony onto the world, oh wait… I have one… my head must still be living in the UK, where balconies are things those foreign types have in far off sunny places. 😉
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There’s a lovely sense of quiet welcome in that photo. One nice thing about night photography is that insides of buildings are relatively bright compared to the day. Here you have a lovely matched level of illumination in and out.
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Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you like the photo.
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