South Florida Landscape Photography

South Florida Sunset from Hollywood Beach

Photo by Lee Smith

We live in an amazing world filled with wonder and beauty. I feel lucky to capture but a few of those moments. The was slowly setting into a cloud bank behind a stand of trees as I was photographing the view from across the Intracoastal channel.

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Concrete Barge aground off Key Largo

photo by Lee Smith

You see some strange things when you are visiting and not from an area, like this concrete barge that was run aground in shallow water off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. The water clarity is good for a high traffic boat channel – it’s right off the channel. People kayak and snorkel around the barge to find tropical fish, invertebrates and an occasional lobster. It’s about 10ft deep but this barge clearly sticks out of the water.

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Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – Key Largo

Photo by Lee Smith

When you drive a few miles out to sea and find a structure like a lighthouse – I always wonder how the heck they built that thing. It is unmanned, but still functions being the oldest existing screw-pile lighthouse still in service in the United States – located off the coast of Key Largo, Florida

For more information about the Caryfort Reef Lighthouse

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A Lone Mangrove – Key Largo, FL

Photo by Lee Smith

I walked in the shallows around a mangrove covered island off Key largo, Florida and found this lone Mangrove growing away from the island. (Photo taken in 2012)

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Ocean View of Fisher Island (2012)

Photo by Lee Smith

I remember when the private island was mostly trees and a sand beach. A place to pull up your boat and eat lunch after a morning of diving or fishing. Now it is the home of the elite with properties selling in the millions…

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Moon over Port of Miami

Photo by Lee Smith

A long view of the Moon over Port of Miami as seen from the north jetty of Government Cut

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