Desaturating the Fairchild.

A feast of colors is what the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is.

The Sundays of August are for free, and a lot of children add to the colors and vibrance of the garden.

Today, let´s do something different: send the colors away of the photographs, and bring out with desaturation the key shapes, lines, and a sense of mystery, something more symbolic and evocative.

Many people still love black & white photographs. Do you?

The Strangler Figs of Miami.

Their seeds are deposited by birds on other trees. They grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. They are all over Miami, in parks and streets, in your backyard, and jumping walls, like this one in Coconut Grove:

These live in Coral Gables:

Sometimes their convoluted roots and trunks resemble bodies:

Will their love outlast this strangling fig at the Bayside Marketplace?

Crawling the walls near Vizcaya, this strangler fig resemble lions and lizards:

All the above pictures(with the exception of the last one) were taken with a large format 4″ X 5″ camera. Do you want to hang one of them on your wall?

A 11″ X 14″ gelatin silver print costs only $65.00 plus tax. Add a nice black frame and your total cost will be $100.00 plus tax.

Give me a call at (786) 797-6302, or email me at cesar@cesarsphotos.com, or come to my studio # 24 at the Bakehouse Art Complex to look at some more.

Art Basel.

Those were four(or five) days of pure delight for art lovers.

The world of art came to Miami. And for the first time the Bakehouse had a very active participation. The doors were open to the public from 10am-6pm, and free breakfast was served everyday from 10-1pm.

Below, the two pictures that I showed in the main gallery, for the exhibition “Sensory Overload”, curated by Lauren Wagner, our Associated Director of Exhibitions.

"Baobab´s Eye".

This is one of the beautiful baobabs in the Young Circle Park, Hollywood, Florida. It reminds us of an elephant´s eye and trunk.

Frequently I find those kinds of resemblances in the botanical nature, like this one in the forest at the Deering Estate at Cutler:

"Little Bear Head and Unicorn.

The second picture at the exhibition was a Beethoven bust with an IPod. At a certain time in his life Beethoven could not hear, but could produce the most wonderful music, like “Choral Fantasy”, the title of this photograph:

"Choral Fantasy".

If you want to see those pictures framed in larger prints, come and visit my studio(# 24) at the Bakehouse Art Complex.