This month’s excursion took us to the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, with an emphasis on the murals and street-art, as well as watching the preparation for events associated with the upcoming Art Basel festival.
The October 2025 photowalk took us to downtown Miami. The theme was the mixture of old and new, seeing Miami as a city of constant reinvention. It was a blustery day, with winds whipping clouds and rain showers past every few minutes, which made for a lot of opportunities to play with light and reflection.
My friend Aysha Gomez-Kureishi has recently decided begin offering her services as a harpist performing events in the San Francisco Bay Area (as events become a thing again). While I don’t have much experience working with two-legged models in photographs, we decided to see what we could come up with improvising a photo stage in her home office. Luckily, Aysha does have experience modeling, so she knew how to pose, and all I needed to worry about was lighting/staging, and camera placement. She and her husband also had several general ideas for shots and setups.
These are the photos that she chose to use on her website. She’s also posted some outtakes to her Instagram feed.
A selection of photos taken over the weekend at the Fairchild and Morikami Gardens.
