# Before & After -- Miami Beach

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2018-08-06

artist, beach, blogging-on-the-road, boardwalk, cities, donald-judd, florida, hotel, iphone, lightroom, miami, miami-beach, photography, soho-beach-house, soho-house, summer-2018, uncategorized, urbanism

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We switched coasts today. Here is a photo of our Miami Beach hotel taken from the boardwalk with my iPhone:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a2d1b1260b0af601b78c00bc9fbafbdc.jpg)

And here is the after:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/cd3d2fffdf293fb38ddea43732c3bd39.jpg)

I took it into Lightroom. Fixed the alignment of the building. Whitened it, but brought out the beautiful warm sunset light on the north elevation. And I took the greenery in the foreground out of the shadows.

The balconies remind me of one of [Donald Judd’s “Untitled” pieces](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-bacigalupi/donald-judds-specific-obj_b_3451022.html). He was one of my favorite artists. I also like the one dude leaning over that upper balcony. It gives the photo a tranquil feel, which is not usually how one would describe Miami Beach.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/before-and-after-miami-beach)*