A brief stop at South Miami Beach

We arrived in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. For some reason it took two hours to get the car sorted and then there was the stress of driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, so with one thing and another we didn’t see a lot of Miami that first night. Our plan was to drive down to Key West the next day and then come back to Miami after exploring the Keys, but when we got to the hotel we were informed that due to hurricane Irma the Keys were being evacuated on Wednesday and then Miami on Thursday. We managed to have a wander around South Miami Beach before heading out of town. We then spent the next three days driving North and then North West through Florida, Alabama and Mississippi as part of the hundreds and thousands of evacuating Floridians fleeing increasingly alarming hurricane warnings and searching desperately for a vacant hotel room. The little bit I saw of Florida was gorgeous. I would have loved to have spent more time there. The lesson is not to plan a visit during hurricane season. In one shot below you can see some girls on the beach putting together home made sand bags.

Even though South Miami Beach is all about bright, gelato colours, the stark light really seemed to lend itself to more graphical black and white images, which also I think show off the lines of that gorgeous art deco architecture to good effect. These photos were all taken with the Fujifilm x100t.