Another thunder storm was rolling across the horizon. We could see the lightning but not hear any thunder over the roar of the 68' Chevy engine and huge fan that were propelling the boat. Bottom left you can see Captain Greg's boat heading across the sawgrass.
This is a view to the west so the Everglades is flowing from right to left across the frame. Since the Everglades is a river, albeit a really slow moving one, it has a very different character to the swamps of southern Louisiana where in many places the water just pools and stagnates.
Having crossed an expanse of inundated grassland, we turned into a firebreak canal in search of some alligators and that was when I got the shot below. It's a handheld 3-shot, 4EV HDR, finished in a beta version of onOne Software's Perfect Photo Suite 7, which is due for general release on October 31!.
The Beach Paradise Hotel sits at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 6th Street in South Beach, Miami. It was looking a tad beat down on the day I photographed it. The main awning the the left of the entrance was torn away while several of the awnings over the windows of the upper floor on both the front and side of the hotel we similarly ripped.
When we entered our hotel, a photo hanging on one of the walls of our suite gave met the answer. The photo was of three buildings clearly on Ocean Drive. The photo had no attribution that I could find and my wife told me the other rooms she'd stayed at in that particular hotel had the same image on the walls. Initially I thought it was quite old but then noticed the 1990's era Mercedes E190 parked on the street.
This series (three shot, 4EV range HDR) was actually shot with the portrait composition. It's not a crop of yesterday's image. I like the interplay of the shapes and the colors. The round dots, the rectangular windows the whatever shapes of the chairs. The blue, the white and the red architectural elements complementing the star spangled banner hanging on the wall. The reflections of the clouds and palm trees in the windows of the upper floors. Black and white first today with color below.