And que the redundancy: DJ Khaled says, “Another one.” This makes me want to put a Miami Vice poster on my bedroom wall, next to alocasia and dracaena. Unblemished summer twilights. Yachts ‘n things. Big Willie Style on extended repeat.

Long exposures yield silky smooth streams in Biscayne Bay. Zoom and rotate blur with RRS tripod and timelapse combo never disappoints. Tilt-shifting and foreground bokeh directs your attention without awareness. Psychology of photography.

Fantasies, equally paired with intention. The people, diversity. The colors, tropical feels. There is no other place in the world like this. Party in the city where the heat is on. All night, on the beach ’til the break of dawn. Welcome to Miami.

Oh. My. Goodness. That feeling when you finally surrender. Yes.

Opening one’s heart to a person or a place can be very unfamiliar.

It takes courage to put yourself out there. An unpredictable world.

Manage expectations. Quiet the mind. Be vulnerable. Life’s lessons.

Admire the beauty, learn from the ugly. Everything is temporary.

Live in the moment. After all, that is how memories are created.

Once is A Lot of Things

Twice is A Decision

This moment speaks to me. Early mornings at daybreak just off Ocean Drive. Droning from the boardwalk at sun down, adjacent to McArthur Causeway. Why do we put ourselves through these scrupulous, physical demands of creation?

Capturing magic together with Oro at South Beach this time around enabled me to better understand our intention toward what we do. Creating gives us freedom. We can do anything we want in this world, unaccompanied by bounds or finite.

With freedom comes fantasies. Visualizing how much more we have to give to our craft. Fantasies align with artistic imagination, embracing our talents to mold them into reality. Damn, so that is what it means to live in the moment.