Family - {Tampa Bay Family Photographer}

Meet the "I" Family!  I really enjoyed hanging out with this super nice and beautiful family (furry children included!) at Lettuce Lake Park for their session a couple of weeks ago.   :)

M Family - {Tampa Bay Family Photographer}

Meet the M Family!  They were so nice to work with and I really enjoyed spending time with them at Philippe Park for our session!

I love that this park has so many versatile areas to shoot.  The park is situated on Tampa Bay and when the tide is out, you get this great sandy area complete with Mangroves and rocks!

There's also these great brick walls and several stairs that surround the 

historical Indian burial ground at the park

The M's love to read and wanted to reflect that in their family photos.  It's such a great 

personal touch to add items that mean something to you when having your family photographed. 

Be sure to discuss it ahead of time with your photographer (hopefully me!) so you can plan ahead and make the most of what you would like to do!

And what's a park without trees, green grass and a great setting sun!

K Family 2.0 - {Tampa Bay Family Photographer}

I was so happy to be able to photograph the K Family again.  The boys have changed so much since that session the summer of 2011.   Have fast they grow up!  

This time around it was just the brothers, getting all four of them together before the oldest brother returned to school.  We also made sure to get in a mini session of the oldest in his cadet uniform!  And to him I just wanted to say thank you for your service!  I know your parents, family and friends are very proud of you.

THAT'S HOT! - {Lutz Event Photographer}

It's that time of year again!  The Martinez 8th Grade Dance.  There is no other school that puts on an end of the year dance, no EVENT than Martinez Middle - more specifically their PTSA. Every year, this group of amazing parents volunteer hours on end to bring to life a theme inspired send off that many high school proms would envy. PTSA's Jill Liebesman, chair of this year's  FIRE themed dance, brought to life this smoking hot 8th Grade celebration with the help of more people than I can name!  (can you believe this is the middle school's cafeteria??!)  Congrats to all that spent weeks and weeks planning, volunteering and working into the night.  You did good!

The entrance to FIRE - In every day life, that's one of the hallways.

Even the bathrooms get the full treatment!

Girls bathroom

Boys bathroom

The drink station.  Can't have a FIRE themed dance with out some cold slushees to cool things down!

A contributor to the evening's decorations was Rose Antonini, owner of A & E Events LLC.  Can see more of her work on last year's dance ICE. 

Seating area to rest the burning feet from hours of dancing.  Those flames in the background are being cast from something called a "Flametron."  Pretty cool! Err I mean hot!

You can't have a dance called FIRE without a fire truck standing by!