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West Palm Beach bridge at dusk
Tricolored Heron on green water
American Alligator at eye level
Mute Swan out of the dark
Sundown over the South Florida wetlands
Miami skyline at blue hour

A South Florida family

Saving our days before they blur together.

Home movies, wildlife photography, and the ordinary days worth keeping.

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The Mehdees channel artwork: the family in a red jeep on a neon Florida night

Day to day

Latest from life

Short videos about a South Florida family, made mostly so we remember it later. New ones land on YouTube first; Instagram keeps the photos and the occasional reel.

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A comic by The Mehdees

Aura Looks Up

A little girl. A big universe. A kids' space-science comic: Aura asks the big bedtime questions, and the answers stay honest. 10 episodes and counting, plus a glossary that makes the big words kid-sized.

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On a bright Saturday, Daddy is washing the family jeep in the driveway while Aura lies in the grass looking up at a brilliant blue sky. She says, "Daddy. You said space is black." Daddy answers cheerfully, "It is!" Then Aura sits up, points straight up, and asks, "Then why is the sky blue?" Daddy freezes mid-scrub with water dripping off his arm and says, "...Oh." He kneels in the grass beside her and sprays a fine mist from the garden hose, making a small rainbow in the sunlight, and explains that sunlight is every color mixed together and that the tiny bits in our air bounce the blue one all over the sky. Aura asks, "So the blue is... the air?" In the last panel they are both lying on their backs in the grass under an enormous blue sky. Daddy says, "The sky isn't blue. Our air is." Aura answers, "So the sky is actually black. We're just looking through blue." Daddy says, "Yes." Mummy watches from the porch with her tea, and Hamzu dozes in his playpen in a floppy sun hat.

The journal

Through the Lens

Macro

How to Photograph Flowers After the Rain

The twenty minutes after a Florida storm is the best light I get. Here's how I shoot flowers in it: the drops, the background, and what I set.

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