The Collector
It was late at night in the island of Key West. I was walking along Duval Street when I passed by a lady who had something unique to herself. She had bike but not just any bike, a bike with at least fifty key chains of varied objects. As I walked by her on the sidewalk, I quickly raised my camera, focused and got the shot. She was actually cleaning her bike at the… Read More
Bamboo Forest
In a beautiful Japanese garden in Florida, I found this amazing bamboo forest. I wanted to get some very unique angles on the bamboo trees right after it had just stopped raining. I laid myself on the ground with my poncho on, set up my tripod, and lowered my camera as close to the ground as possible to get this angle of the trees. In Lightroom I wanted to give a cinematic look… Read More
A Spider’s Web
This shot was taken with my Leica X1 in one of the gardens in Florida that I visited. I’m not a spider person so I was actually a little nervous taking this shot because the spider (and its web) were actually pretty big. To get this shot I knelt down and had the spider in front of the stormy sky in the background to give it an even more intimidating look.
The Multiverse
This is a picture of a movie theater in Key West that had a really cool art deco design. My idea here was to play with light and wave my Leica X1 around in the air to get an abstract look. In Lightroom, I boosted up the contrast to the max to get a completely black background and which also gave the shapes more “layers” for a little bit of a 3D effect. I… Read More
Beautiful Japanese Garden
While walking through an amazing Japanese Garden in Florida, these beautiful bright flowers caught my eye. When I walked up to them, this perfect scene emerged before my eyes. I saw little purple flowers a little ways behind the bright pink flowers, a beautiful lake, and the Japanese museum on an island sitting on the lake just come together. Before even raising my Leica X1 to capture the moment, I had already composed the… Read More
