About a moth ego I went to see a space shuttle launch. It was a long night, we arrived at about 12 am and the launch was at 8:56 am. Luckily the Space Center was open all night and my friend and I had a chance to see a lot of stuff about the space exploration. One of the things that stuck in my mind was the discussion about spending all that money on space programs when we could use it to feed the hungry and such. Why do we have to go somewhere so far and probably not ever find anything, spending trillions upon trillions of dollars over the years, we haven’t found not even one lousy microbe outside of our planet. The closest solar system is something like 6 light years away, that means with today’s technology, it would take us somewhere in the neighborhood of ½ a million years or something just to get there and we already know that there is no life in that solar system. The one that might have a possibility of some kind of life, and I’m not talking intelligent life, but finding one lousy microbe, is 60 light years away. Do the math how long it would take us to get there.
So, in that presentation, someone said: “Did the caveman stay in the cave or wondered what was beyond those hills and went to explore them”. When I heard that, I realized how exploration is important not only for human progress, but also for me and my life. I should never stop, because I am an explorer; some people raise family, some are businessman, cooks, taxi drivers, singers and poets… I am an explorer. Whenever I venture somewhere, that’s when I feel complete.
So, finally, after my friend and I fell asleep on the grass across the bay, 6.5 miles away from the launch of the space shuttle, someone woke us up and said it’s going to take off in a few minutes. I was wearing only shorts and a tank top, I felt very cold, sick and tired. Suddenly there was a little puff of smoke, two seconds later she went into the clouds and that was that. Another second or two later a roar came through, someone said, there she is, I looked up and saw nothing but clouds. A few moments later someone else said, there she is, I looked up and again, saw nothing but clouds. My friend was very disappointed, to tell you the truth, I was somewhat disappointed as well. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, I guess the fact that people went into space and I was a life witness to it was, may be, important somewhere deep down.
You might say, what does all this has to do with being a Photographer Miami or South Beach Photographer? Well, sometimes exploration doesn’t mean you have to go into 
space, one might explore inside oneself. For me it’s both, it’s the combination and the balance of two. I’m still preparing my sailing trip through the Caribbean, that’s my space exploration and on the inside, I’m looking for that perfect photo, the perfect harmony of the female figure in the relation to the surrounding.
The number one thing you have to be able to make some classy photos of Miami’s beautiful ladies is take the sex OUT of the picture. Any attempt to look sexy on your model’s part, and what you end up with is tacky — not sexy. Looking sexy with your clothes on is one thing — it invites the imagination — but looking sexy while wearing nothing turns it into a predation, not an invitation.
There’s nothing unusual about letting your eyes guide you across a page while your brain absorbs the images and turns them into an inherent assumption about what to do next. In this way, images direct your actions in a subtle but significant manner: see an image that resonates with you, and you instinctively seek more information. That’s the power of advertising photography. 
There’s a lot more to advertising photography than just keeping up with sales trends in print advertising, though. While advertising photography is very effective in that format, the evolution of online advertising is drawing photographers into the Internet arena as well. As various forms of banner advertisement, popup advertisement, and preloader advertisement become more and more common, they will expand their target markets. By the end of next year, you may very well see advertisements for everyday items like dishwashing detergent or bananas popping up in these formats — and you can be sure, those products will hire professional advertising photographers to take the shots used in these formats as well. 
Living in Solitude. Continuation from “A Meaningless Life in the Absurd World”
I suppose most people in this world find someone special, get married, have children, grow old, have grand children, some even have great-grand children and eventually die. I call it “Walking the Beaten Path” and that’s not my journey, I need to go where I haven’t been before, do the things I haven’t done. Why? Well, why does the mountain climber climbs the mountain? Because that’s what he does, because of who he is and in order to do this, sometimes you have to do it by yourself.
Of course I understand in case of climbing a very toll mountain or even going sailing, it’s a lot more dangerous to do it by yourself, however, you get a lot more out of it, because it becomes a personal journey, an exploration not only of the region visited and in case of sailing, it’s just an open ocean, where ever you look, but the exploration journey into oneself.
What about loneliness, you might ask. Surprisingly, I don’t get lonely, it’s the sex that’s raining on my parade these days. Despite my age, I happen to have a pretty strong sex drive and, not having a steady outlet, I have to look for it. Where do I look for it, how do I find it and how do I do it without committing myself to some kind of a relationship, in one form or another. Besides, being a South Beach Photographer, I deal with a lot of young attractive female models and the last thing I want to do is to even think about doing anything with them, that would make them feel uncomfortable and might ruin my reputation. As the matter of fact, one of the things I do with the model before the shoot, is building a trust, assuring her that I have no other intentions but to take beautiful pictures.
So where do I find sex? To tell you the truth, I’m still working on it and as soon as I figure it out, I’ll make sure to let you know. Meanwhile, my boat is almost done, I’m getting ready to:
“…sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
I put on a sailor’s suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man cannot be free
Of all the evils in this town
And of himself and those around…”
(a quote from “Velvet Underground” song)
Ahoy, I say…
To be continued.