And So It Is Christmas...

The tradition continues. First, your photographer, of beach, street, and the world.

Robert Mitchell

This was a nice surprise. I had forgotten the Fort Lauderdale tradition of putting up a Winter display on the plaza by The Wall:

We always evaluate those for how well they will survive the late night...well, partiers.

This next gets credit for being truly "street", the notorious parking lot right in the middle of East Las Olas, A1A, the Elbo Room, and The Wall. I love the transition from green to pink to blue, from street light to night:

Mitch is having a lot of fun with filters. We get a lot of Sixties psychedelia, but Mitch has also discovered the austere power of black & white:

I love the crazy illusion of the waterway sliding down like a ski slope:

I get a kick out of the trouble Mitch took to make this composition, squatting down to silhouette what is actually a clever stainless steel bike rack in the shape of a bike. I know he goes out of his way to capture effects, but I remember that bike rack and can see him setting up this shot in my mind's eye.

In this next shot Mitch catches a bird in flight against a stunning backdrop. Mitch has his themes, and the bird in flight might be the one he works the most. Tying this to his decades of incarceration might be too easy. I imagine growing up in tough Detroit might have a strong spirit like Mitch looking to soaring birds as well as a reminder that escape is possible.

This next is almost too good to be true, so I suspect Mitch has been at the filters again. If so, he knows what to do with filters:

I am a sucker for the light off the tiles, and an unusual blue sky sunrise:

This next came as a shock after all the sunrises and night shots. I forgot where Mitch is.

A leftover from the Visit of the Chicks a ways back, a story I never really heard from the crew down in FtL:

Not the greatest shot, but it was the best of quite a few Mitch took trying to make something of a magnificent thunderhead that formed just outside the reef. Nice to see a fullish moon sneaking into the story:

People love to just stand and look out to sea, and Mitch loves to capture their liberation.

We do not get many of these, but another strong theme for Mitch is macrophotography, aka super close-ups.

And we close, too, with our artist, this time hanging out with friends from his beach club.

Merry Christmas, young fella!