Feb 16, 2021
Lovely fiddlehead fern detail from the front entrance of the Congress Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Normally this detail is a pain in the you know what to capture for two reasons: 1) The shadows from the awning always leave it partially in & out of bright sunshine & if you wait until it's overcast, it looks dull. 2)The shrubbery that covers the bottom two feet of the detail. Through a combination of up very close wide shots taken on the other side of the shrubbery (without pissing off the security) and HDR to lessen the shadows, this is my result. From my 2018 visit. The last one is actually from my 2006 visit two show that there was no shrubbery (yay), but the detail was sadly just painted in a lazy all white.
