Daily Photo – South Beach Friday Morning

October 16, 2012
Travel

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South Beach, Miami, on a Friday morning at around 9:30. Having sauntered south on Ocean Drive to about 12th street I decided to head out to the beach a shade under 500 feet from the hotels and restaurants. Being 9:30am on a regular Friday there were not many people on the beach but the Boucher Brothers crews had been hard at work laying out sun loungers and umbrellas in anticipation of crowds to come.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami, The Edgewater

October 15, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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While South Beach in general and the Ocean Drive area in particular is known for its art deco architecture, The Edgewater stands out because of its more Spanish Colonial styling on its upper floors, particularly the red Spanish tile roof detail.

Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami, The Betsy Ross

October 14, 2012
Architecture / Black and White

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I was inspired to take this series by a picture hanging in our hotel room. I'll post the then-and-now of that image later since it was towards the southern end of Ocean Drive and the Betsy Ross is at the north end.

Daily Photo – Fourteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale

October 13, 2012
Black and White / Travel

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The vertical framing of this shot has changes the overall exposure with the layer of cloud above the aircraft more dark and ominous looking. The sun is setting on the far side of the cloud wall with rays of sunlight streaking through the gaps in the clouds lighting them up like they're on fire while sheets of rain fall on the communities just inland of the coast.

Daily Photo – Fifteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale

October 12, 2012
Black and White / Cameras / Landscape / Travel

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But looking back I got this fantastic view of the sunlight from the setting sun streaming through the gap in the clouds with sheets of rain from the storm falling just inland from the coast. I once again turned to my Canon S100 to capture the scene. From the features on the ground, the aircraft would have been over or just south of Eisenhower, Lehigh Acres, Florida. You can make out the Gulf coast and the southern end of Estero Bay between the two sheets of rain in the center of the photo.

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2

October 11, 2012
Black and White / Travel

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The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is a shade over 500 miles per hour (all things being equal) so we'd traveled about eight miles closer to the cloud wall. Add to that the cloud wall was moving west, towards us and that yields the change in the cloud shapes between the two photo-sets.