The Blogger Union has partnered with CreativeMornings/Miami for a collaborative storytelling marathon. Tune in to read the story of our city told by local creatives, bloggers and entrepreneurs. Each week, a different member of CreativeMornings will take over to post what inspires them about South Florida. Do yo want to take over the CreativeMornings/Miami blog and share your take on our community? Email Paola at info@thebloggerunion and we’ll get working on it!

I’ve lived in South Florida for 20 years and yes I’m a native Floridian, if you overlook the 28 years I spend living in Europe, Chicago and New York. Over the next few days I will share some people I’ve been privileged to meet and some of my favorite places in South Florida. 

“Where is the beach?” is probably the first question my friends ask, when they come to visit Miami. I think they picture us suntanning all day long. Honestly though, the only time you’ll find me on the beach is when I’m creating photographs for my clients. 

Photo credit: Photography by Depuhl

Enter Jytte. Although I didn’t meet her on the beach, we did end up on one photographing for Armpocket. Jytte is not from Florida originally, but she now runs a small business in South Florida, which makes an armband, that protects your phone, keys, cash, … while you go about your active lifestyle. 

Like so many of my clients, Jytte had found me via a web search and in the course of producing a photo shoot for them I ended up finding a precious gem of a beach, that ended up being the location for our shoot. (You can check out how I scouted this beach on my blog.)

If you drive toward Key Biscayne and make a left directly across from the Miami Seaquarium, you’ll find Virgina Key Beach tucked away on your right. It ended up being the perfect place to shoot the running shots at sunrise. 

Jytte is one of the people that make Miami great in my eyes. I’m blessed to work with many of them: Chaz, Yves, Leo, Fannie, Rebecca, Maria, … They are a few of the small business owners, who live here. They are the kick butt entrepreneurs that make Miami one of my favorite places. 

Video credit: Photography by Depuhl

Pascal Depuhl is chief mind changer at Photography by Depuhl, a Miami-based visual content creation company. It’s common to find him in the mountains of Afghanistan or the jungles of South America and it’s just as common to walk away from one of the visual content he creates with your mind changed.

To get a glimpse of what’s going on in his mind check out his blog.