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Welcome to Miami - Jen Slay

I’m not even gonna attempt to tell the story of what all went down in Miami. I have a vlog for that. Even then, that still cuts a lot of the shenanigans and haberdashery out. So, just enjoy some pics and watch the vlog at the bottom of the page lol.

Ok I lied.

After making her suffer on the balcony in the heat for a quick shoot, we left the room to go find some flip flops for her. After finding a store with the flip flops, while walking the pool area toward the beach, I saw the soft glow of light and I remember saying “WAIT!” Lol I have a tendency to randomly stop people while we’re walking if I see how the light’s hitting.

Stopped on the boardwalk for a few snaps.

So Jen wanted shots in the water. So that’s what we did, and got a lot of shots actually. But the sun was already pretty low and not giving the effect we (I) wanted. So we moved on to come back to it tomorrow.

So right after these shots, a police officer on an ATV rolled up and we thought we were about to get in trouble for shooting on this thing on the beach. He asked “uhh do you guys have a permit?” Jen’s face in the vlog is PRICELESS. I equate it to Iverson’s “Practice?” or Westbrook’s “What? Bro what are you talkin about man” LOL

This was the thing we were shooting on btw when the officer rolled up on us lol.

So the plan was to go get some more shots in different swimsuit elsewhere outside of FountaineBleau…

…but by the time she got changed and we left the hotel again, it started getting dark quickly so we ended up back on the balcony lol.

We were starving by this point. So we ordered an Uber and ended up in South Beach at this SUPER BOURGEOISIE restaurant lol. Like celebs frequent this place joint lol.

After dinner, we got a couple more shots while in the area of the restaurant.

This shot is blurry but I don’t care cuz it’s fire in my eyes lol.

Truth be told, I had to go back and re-edit these next couple because the original edits were hot garbage. I have multiple colorized versions of these and the other images like them as well because the new edits came out dope.

I didn’t re-edit these below images fyi lol.

Day 2

I had no idea where to go this day. So we texted back and forth in the morning about potential locations, and based off a friend’s recommendation, we met up at Wynwood.

After we left Wynwood, we went back to the FountaineBleau. While we were walking in the halls, I started shooting. Why did top flight security come out the wall to stop us from taking pictures -_-

I still popped off like a good 15 pics though lol.

After top flight’s buzzkill, we ended up going to South Beach.

(Mad I had to put this to FB to embed this video smh.)

So we honestly didn’t stay at South Beach long. It was a buttload of people and we were both over it lol. So we legit walked the beach for maybe 5 min, snapped some shots, walked the strip for maybe 2 blocks and ended up shopping. Then, went back to the beach behind the FountaineBleau for more shooting.

Of course with all that shooting, our fat selves had to go eat again lol. So we hit the strip one more time for some tacos.

So we thought we were about to walk to a restaurant…

But then we said nah…call that Uber lol.

So I’m going to end the photo portion with an almost RAW image, just some minor touches to brightness and what not. I didn’t feel like doing anything to it lol.

If you haven’t already, you can watch the Miami Vlog below, that covers a lot of the things I didn’t mention.

Enjoy!

Fin.

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