It’s been a while since our last post, for a few reasons. Like my brother says… “Who has time to blog when you’re working your butt off”! We have been slammed and any free time we get is with the family! Though we love a bit of blogging we love life too and wanna have fun living it. We have been in the process of shooting about 32 weddings, 20 or so engagements, in and out of town shooting a few ads and bands for Sabian cymbals with Guruz Media. You may have seen this post we did – “Something you may not know about Reid” We had to have a vacation, and went to North Carolina, Should have some pictures of that up soon. You can check out everything we are doing on our Facebook! I wanted to do this blog Long ago but got a little busy 
Now I have a day before i go back out with Guruz to Philadelphia and throw in a trash the dress session and a few other things.
Kristy & Mike! Mike happens to be the coolest guy in the world. I say that because after our engagement photo session I received a text message one evening. “Hey, lets go get a beer” I didn’t recognize the number so i asked “who’s this?” The reply was “The coolest guy in the world!” Just my kind of people! We love our couples and actually like spending time with them to get to know them and actually be friends! We happened to have a few drinks the night of their engagement shoot and have been trying to get back together since. I’ve been a bit busy though, sorry Mike! We’ll get out soon. I plan on calling or texting in the next week or two. So I got a call from a really sweet sounding bride named Kristy! We planned a time to meet so I could meet her and her insanely huge, muscle man fiance Mike. Side note – Kristy and Mike have the best teeth I have ever seen!
I usually meet at an office in Ybor city. We happened to meet at a Panera this time…. I think. Its been a while. They both walked in with nice smiles and I shook Mikes hand as he crushed mine. I got to know them a little bit before jumping in to the stupid sales-y part of stuff. I hate talking sales. I’d just rather hang out and have fun. Kristy mentioned she wanted the best wedding photography she could find and Loved the way 12-1Photography has such a relaxed look to all our wedding pictures! Thats a comment we get a lot. We constantly and painstakingly study people, interaction and comfortable posing in order to get the best photography poses out of our couples for their Wedding or engagement photo’s. No matter what, we can’t settle for mediocre and don’t think anyone should, especially for their wedding pictures. Mike and Kristy wanted unique, creative, fun and relaxed wedding photography and engagement photography.
Kristy & Mike decided 12-1Photography was the best wedding photographers for them and we got going scheduling their engagement session. Since they just moved here from up north a bit,… think they said Pennsylvania. I could be wrong. They had no clue where to do their engagement pictures. I though about it and suggested Ybor city. They like that kind of feel and it happens to be a great place for pictures if you know where to look. We did the engagement shoot in Ybor! We started around 4 or 5ish while the sun was still out. I think i might be one of the only photographers in the world who happens to love being out in full sun light for a shoot. I love the challenge of creating dynamic wedding or engagement pictures in the sun. We ran all over ybor had some fun, and stopped in to First Chance Last Chance Bar which happens to be a perfect little bar for a good hang out time. We did a few pictures in the bar, had some drinks and left as friends and very happy with the way the day unfolded! Here’ s Kristy & Mike’s engagement Pictures. Hope you enjoy and keep an eye out for the two part finale at the end. Its pretty great. Thanks to Mike and Kristy for and awesome photo session. We are pretty stoked to photograph your wedding!
Awesomeness!
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I love 12-1Photography. They are Tampa’s best wedding photographers. Can’t wait to have them at the next Crash my Event Wedding or party!