Fotos by Carlos

Made it down to Wynwood this afternoon. For those who don't know, it's a neighborhood in Miami with a history of being a little rough around the edges, but which has gentrified pretty quickly in the last five years. By Miami standards, it's a little more cleaned up than I like to see, but friends from out of town assure me it's still fairly grimy. Anyway, rain kept me from being able to take half the fotos I wanted to take, but it's hard to walk through the area without finding something of visual interest, so I still got some decent shots. Below are my favorites from today, with chrome filter applied, and a little context in captions (when I feel they're needed). Towards the center of this foto is Atomik's distinctive smiling orange. If you're in Miami and never see one of these, you have failed at seeing Miami. The harsh, bright light presented some challenges, but I feel like I'm getting better at making the camera do what I w...

It's been raining in SoFla for days with no break, so it was a relief when today turned out to be scattered thunderstorms instead of constant thunderstorms. Gave me a chance to do some work stuff I've needed to do, plus I got to take a few fotos. I focused on exposure and trying to set up shots so that I don't clip highlights, after covering that in the National Geographic course I've been watching. Turns out, a cloudy day can be great for shooting, but it's a little tricky to shoot in a way where clouds don't wash out, which is where exposure compensation came in for me. I used to think you needed a circular polarizing filter for this sort of shooting (and having one IS helpful), but you can get pleasing shots without one, if you know your camera. Anyway, below are my two favorite pics, in untouched form and with chrome filter applied and saturation increased, because it pleased me. Apologies for the low-res, but I find that for daily shooting, it's not alw...

RC Cola Plant | 02 . . . . #cubalibre #wynwood #rccola #305 #streetart #graffiti #urbandecay #atomik A post shared by Carlos A. (@whyislenguage) on May 19, 2017 at 7:49am PDT Love this work by Atomiko and Monzernater . This is that real Miami graffiti. This whole series was shot with my trusty Nikon Coolpix A. It's a compact enthusiast camera with a fast prime wide-angle lens and a Dx sensor, letting you take some surprisingly drool-worthy fotos.

I was lucky enough to get into an abandoned RC Cola plant in Wynwood, a neighborhood in Miami, FL. I love abandoned spaces, and this one was COVERED in graffiti. There's some really stunning work on display here. Kicking things off with a nice piece by a homegrown artist named  Golden .