This sweet family came all the way from Green Bay for their vacation and for family vacation beach pictures on Indian Rocks Beach. Of course, being from Green Bay, I was thrilled to have someone from my old home town pick me to document their family while visiting the area! We ended up having some people we knew and even went to the same high school. Although, I was there years earlier! It was so fun to document their time together and I loved each of the girls’ personalities that come through so well in the photos and their connection with each other shines in these as well. The night was colder than normal but being Wisconsinites they took it in stride and the light was so perfect and glowy!

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Mar 21

Written By Brooke Hamilton

I no longer do wedding photography, but I do love couples portraits. Especially if you add a sweet toddler to the mis. It is even more amazing, right? This vacation beach photo session on Fort DeSoto Beach was taken just after the beach fully reopened. Thankfully it is just as lovely as ever after two hurricanes ravaged this coast last year. This family took a vacation and brought their wedding dress along for fun vacation beach pictures that are wedding inspired and still centered around their sweet family. I loved the light and how sweet and happy they all were together. It was worth the travel to Fort DeSoto for sure for that sandy expanse, less people and gorgeous greenery to work with, too.

These lovely ladies came into our lives through swimming and I am so glad we had at least a few years swimming with them on the same club. Their parents are the sweetest and so are they. I can’t believe they are almost graduating and then they will be off to college soon. How fun is it for them that they are heading off together, too? Our twins are planning on the same university as well, so hopefully it works out well for these ladies! Or if you are twins and looking for some senior photo inspiration for when you graduate, you came to the right spot!

I love this location and if you have been following me for a while you will definitely know that since it is a location I use so much. The light just never disappoints at Medard Park in Plant City. This lovely couple I met a few years back at an extended family photo session on Davis Island while they were all visiting. Now they are living in the area and welcoming their first baby soon. I was thrilled to help document this milestone for them. They are truly the sweetest and most laid back couple to work with.

This lovely family came down at the perfect time. The weather was perfect, no rain, no cold, just right. They had a few days of sea fog, but the sunsets were hazy, cotton candy skies. Which worked perfectly with the soft neutral color pallet. Neutral does not mean everybody is in white or cream, you can do neturals with khakis, brown, light blues and pinks sprinkled in as well. They didn’t have any big prints so everything just melded together perfectly with softness perfect for the beach! If you are heading down to Indian Rocks Beach on a family vacation with grandparents, cousins, or siblings you just don’t get to see nearly often enough, a family beach photo session is a great way to remember the fun you had. I promise it will be fun and the only stress will be if you stress. I will be here to guide you every step of the way and then the night of the session, help keep you relaxed with mom-jokes and animal noises to keep everyone entertained for the hour or hour and a half we spend together at sunset! Contact me today if you are already booked for your vacation. I am mostly booked for March but have a few spots open, particularly weekdays and the same goes for April.

I just adore this family. I am so glad they moved back to the area after a few year and a few kiddos! I was lucky enough to document their oldest child at her newborn photos and now here I am photographing their latest baby. Their bookends <3 Here is a few of my favorites from their petite newborn and family photo session in Fishhawk Ranch. The petite offering for newborns allows for an hour together, with baby safe in their family’s arms for most of the session. Near the end, we wrapped up with a few simple and timeless newborn photos indoors, too.

It is that time of year where I get a lot of inquiries for senior photo sessions. I love it! Senior portraits are some of my favorite photo sessions. Each senior brings their unique style and personality to these sessions and that can be so fun and creatively freeing for me as a photographer. Letting you be you is so important! So, if you are a free spirit, or maybe more of a book worm, or maybe a sport fanatic, let’s document you as you are! What do you want to remember as you hit this high school completion and milestone? That can help me with not only style guidance for the best photos to stand out amongst the crowd, but also give you the best ideas for photo locations around Tampa Bay!

This family met up with me one early morning before school was back in session this summer. We were able to do a photo session to celebrate their oldest daughter’s return from studying her first year of university abroad and their oldest son’s senior year that was about to start. I love focusing on family during senior portraits as it is often the last time you manage to get family photos for a while. I love the traditional posed portraits and more relaxed moments in between, too. I love a good portrait session to document milestones but I will always strive to get more authentic family moments as well. The interactions and connections families have together are ultimately what I hope everyone cherishes while doing a photo session with me. It shouldn’t be stressful if you just come with the intention to hang out as a family and enjoy some time together. I loved that they also brought their adorable and energetic dogs, too. You know nothing relaxes a family quite like a favorite pet, right?

You know I love a good pregnancy announcement! This one was no different. We met at a local park in FishHwak Ranch early one morning to help take some photos to share their big news! Thankfully we were able to set up a morning session with all the rain we have been having almost every evening. Mornings are a good way to make sure to get your photo session in without rescheduling in late summer. If you are newly expecting, one of the weekday mini-sessions coming up in early fall would be a great way to incorporate a fun announcement into your family photos, too. Or even a short and sweet way to document your pregnancy if you are farther along, too!

This family came to visit the area earlier this month and we had an amazing night for a fun, family photo session on Coquina Beach. I love when people set up vacation family photos while in the Tampa Bay area. I photograph families as far north as Honeymoon Island and as far south as Lido Key and everywhere in between. If you are heading to Anna Maria Island, Redington Beach, Indian Rocks Beach or somewhere close by, the odds are that I know the perfect beach for us to document your time here on our gorgeous Gulf of Mexico beaches. Usually it is somewhere close to where you are staying or where you are vacationing if you are right on the beach!

This family is just so gorgeous and wonderful, inside and out. I loved meeting their newest baby boy recently, especially in the comfort of their home. I love being a Tampa in home newborn photographer. I bring a few things with me and honestly, use the light and rooms that each family has to help each family’s newborn photos be uniquely their own. This family also brings their puppies to their photo sessions and keeping them happy and relaxed at home always helps, too. Here are a few of my favorite images from their session, but picking a few is almost impossible.

I loved meeting this sweet family a couple of weeks ago when they were down in the area dropping their oldest daughter off at college. What a gorgeous night and family, right? I loved seeing their oldest daughter interact so sweetly with the younger siblings and how much everyone just soaked up their time together. I can’t imagine dropping your first baby off at school, especially in another state. What a great location though, especially with her marine biology focused study! This family made a family trip of it though and really seemed like they had a great time together before the big drop off. Sending miss C the best of luck!!! I have a couple of mini-sessions spots at beaches on the bay this fall, too. Read more about what is still left!