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Coolest guy in the world | Mike & Kristy

August 12th, 2011

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 [...]
 

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!

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Its not a Photobooth – Its Awesome | Tampa Wedding Photographer

April 14th, 2011

Everyone knows a photo-booth can be a little bit of fun but its sometimes a bummer to be crowded in the tiny things. 12-1Photography has toyed around with the idea of adding a photobooth to our arsenal for quite some time but as you may know, we don’t like to do things halfhearted.  If we [...]
 

Everyone knows a photo-booth can be a little bit of fun but its sometimes a bummer to be crowded in the tiny things. 12-1Photography has toyed around with the idea of adding a photobooth to our arsenal for quite some time but as you may know, we don’t like to do things halfhearted.  If we do something, we are goin to go all out to make it as awesome as possible. We’ve done this in the past but it wasn’t awesome or cool enough. Well….. we have finally created the best photobooth around and its awesomeness is to our liking! Being the type of photographers and people we are, we don’t like to call it a “photo-booth” sounds a little dumb and weeny! We decided to call ours “Wedding Crasher” because that’s what we want to see at each of our weddings. We want to see people having a great time to the point of crashing! If anyone knows 12-1Photography, you know we would never hold you back from being yourself and encourage it, no matter how crazy or weird others might think it is. We happen to be the craziest most fun wedding photographers in the Tampa area. We also try to be one of the most creative photographer teams in the Tampa area. We feel your wedding should be a ton of fun and shun those who say otherwise! You’re getting married for crying out loud, have some fun! 12-1Photography’s Wedding Crasher | Photobooth will allow you to unwind and do everything you’ve always wanted to do at a wedding or any formal event. If you want a photobooth for your wedding and want it to be really awesome, give us a call. Here’s the best part of it – Our Wedding Crasher | photobooth is Included in all of our packages! Save yourself some money and have an insanely awesome time in the process. It’s a win/win situation! We have a different way of running our Wedding crasher. A dvd and online gallery with print purchasing options is provided for each. Prints start at $.63 for a 4″x6″ print.If you are looking for an affordable photobooth option to enhance your wedding photography, you’ve found it!

Here’s a few of our favorites from some recent weddings we photographed!

 

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A blustery day | Megan & Josh

February 15th, 2011

Megan & Josh are one of the coolest, most comfortable couples i have had to opportunity to photograph. Its like they were born in front of the camera! I’m not even as comfortable on the other side of the camera as they are. Though, all this could have something to do with my awesome ability [...]
 

Megan & Josh are one of the coolest, most comfortable couples i have had to opportunity to photograph. Its like they were born in front of the camera! I’m not even as comfortable on the other side of the camera as they are. Though, all this could have something to do with my awesome ability to make people very comfortable with me! Ok, maby not. They were pretty awesome all by themselves.
It had been quite blustery in the Tampa area for a few days. I called Megan (concerned about her hair blowing) No big deal to her! They were ready to have some fun plus, Josh had just gotten his teeth whitened so he wasn’t about to miss this! We started out at the University of Tampa, which is always a beautiful place for engagement pictures! We took our time at the school, then decided to get in the car and drive around Tampa to see what we could find as great backgrounds for their engagement pictures. I happened to have a few places in mind which don’t get photographed too often. If you take a look off the side roads, Tampa is a great place to photograph engagement pictures, or pictures of any kind. I love Tampa and the surrounding areas and the fact that Tampa has some of the best places to photograph anything, if you know where to look! Here’s a few of my favorite pictures from Megan & Josh’s Engagement Session.
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My dog Maggie | Tampa photographer

October 26th, 2010

Maggie is our totally awesome, extremely hyper dog! She’s more hyper than my son Nate, which can get pretty crazy sometimes. She gets really excited when we get home and is always at the door waiting to jump and say hello. She does this weird little talking growl which sounds like she’s actually saying something! [...]
 

Maggie is our totally awesome, extremely hyper dog! She’s more hyper than my son Nate, which can get pretty crazy sometimes. She gets really excited when we get home and is always at the door waiting to jump and say hello. She does this weird little talking growl which sounds like she’s actually saying something! Maggie has a cute little grin when she’s running around the house playing. She likes to run up the stairs and wait for us to get up there just to rub her belly! If we don’t go up she comes right back down with her little growl, like she’s saying “why didn’t you come up there” She also likes to get in front of us while we go up and just lay in front of us with her paws up.  She loves going outside and getting in the car for a ride. As soon as she sees her little red leash, she flips out, runs around in circles, jumps up and down. If we take too long getting that leash on she makes her little talking sound.  Sad thing is,.. Maggie is not feeling like running around today. She’s dog sick :( I figured i’d post this in honor of her today and hopefully she’ll feel much better soon! Here’s some pictures at play and then we’ll finish with some i took this morning of her pitiful little face.

Just in from outside!

In this one she just growled at me because I hadn’t let her off the leash yet!

Maggie at the top of the stairs waiting for one of us to come play!

Here’s Maggie today. Not feeling good enough to get out of bed :(

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Tampa backyard wedding Photographer | Jenilee & Brian

August 24th, 2010

I photographed this backyard wedding back in June and am just now getting it up to view which is how i work. I do tons of photo shoots all the time. Weddings, Engagements, Bands and other event photography. I have so much stuff happening and a ton more blogs I’ll be getting too eventually so [...]
 

I photographed this backyard wedding back in June and am just now getting it up to view which is how i work. I do tons of photo shoots all the time. Weddings, Engagements, Bands and other event photography. I have so much stuff happening and a ton more blogs I’ll be getting too eventually so keep in touch here and leave me a message from time to time!

Jenilee and Brian are a really fun and extremely cool couple. I didn’t meet them till the day of the wedding! Jenilee’s mother Cindy, called me months ago (which is always the best thing to do to book your wedding vendors) and told me she and her daughter loved my photography and wanted to have me photograph their wedding. I suggested a meeting as I always do but they were set and she asked how to book me and where to send the check? I love getting right to the point! As the title says, It was a backyard wedding kinda near Tampa, at a beautiful house on a private lake with little islands in the middle of it. The lake bottom was made of a different type which caused the water to be perfectly clear and blue! They also had their own little beach in the back yard – pretty cool! Backyard weddings are replacing the ballroom wedding because they are more intimate and a bit less expensive and it allows friends and family to be themselves in a familiar environment. I arrived a little early – say,.. an hour early! I really don’t like being late and brides don’t want you to be late either so I always do my best to make sure the bride isn’t stressed about that too! I took some detail pictures as Brian and some of the guys set up the entire wedding scene in the back yard. They did a great job. There Is always some pride to be had in setting up your wedding for you bride! I’m pretty sure that might be attractive to the bride as well! I never found out where the flowers came from or the cake! Cindy, if you happen to look at this leave a comment and let us know! Here’s a few of their awesome wedding pictures!

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The new face of Engagament shoots! | Pon & Joe

June 10th, 2010

With the help of some wonderful new friends of mine (Pon & Joe ) we have created the new face of Engagement Photography in the Tampa, St.Pete area and possibly the world! We started talking about me photographing their wedding about 6 months ago or longer. In the process of wedding talk we started making [...]
 

With the help of some wonderful new friends of mine (Pon & Joe ) we have created the new face of Engagement Photography in the Tampa, St.Pete area and possibly the world! We started talking about me photographing their wedding about 6 months ago or longer. In the process of wedding talk we started making plans for their engagement pictures. Pon and Joe both agreed they didn’t just want the regular cheesy engagement pictures of them looking at the camera or looking away from the camera in some sort of lovey dovey pose so I said lets go extreme with this. They agreed! They wanted to have some really cool engagement pictures to look back on years from now. We decided to tell a story of LOVE and tried to incorporate everything that could happen in a relationship within these few “engagement pictures”. Relationships have their ups and downs, their dreams, realities, break ups and make ups! Here’s what we came up with for Pon & Joe’s engagement pictures at a house in St. Petersburg.

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Vintage wedding in St. Pete with Nate & Cydney | Tampa, St. Pete Wedding Photographer

April 28th, 2010

All brides are beautiful, especially on their wedding day and Cydney was no different BUT she was! She was going for a 1940′s wedding feel and she pulled it off! This rock n roll bride/couple was insanely great to work with and knew exactly what they wanted for their wedding pictures. Nate & Cydney were [...]
 

All brides are beautiful, especially on their wedding day and Cydney was no different BUT she was! She was going for a 1940′s wedding feel and she pulled it off! This rock n roll bride/couple was insanely great to work with and knew exactly what they wanted for their wedding pictures. Nate & Cydney were married at the Mirror Lake Lyceum in St. Petersburg Florida. The Lyceum is one of the coolest places to host your wedding especially if you want a vintage wedding. The hallways, stairs, ceremony and reception hall all have the coolest old world look!  There were new places to shoot pictures around every corner! I definitely want to do more wedding photography at the Mirror Lake Lyceum!

The day started like this. Cydney had the awesome dress, shoes and flowers and Nate had his cigar!

As the girls got ready, the guys did what they do best – Smokin and Drinkin!

The boys eventually spruced up as Cydney finished her makeup.

The wedding ceremony was great and the bridal pictures we got afterwards were amazing! As said before, The Mirror Lake Lyceum has tons of beautiful locations for wedding and bridal pictures. Here are just a few more of the really cool vintage wedding pictures we got in St. Petersburg in the Lyceum!

One of my favorite things to capture – The private kiss as soon as they get out!

My favorite thing about Cydney is her ability to change the picture by the slightest change in her expression. She’s a master! Nate however is like me and really used to being behind the lens. But he ended up looking really cool! Good job Nate, Yeah! Don’t kill me for that comment.

The Mirror Lake Lyceum has the best locations for wedding photography in St. Pete Florida! If you don’t want a beach wedding go to the Mirror Lake Lyceum!

I really dig this set of pictures! What am i taking about, I like em all!!!!

The night ended with dancing and cake / cupcake tree. It was awesome!

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The guy with the eye part 2 | Jennifer & Bobby’s Lake Suzy Florida wedding

April 22nd, 2010

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted any wedding blogs. Not to say i haven’t photographed any weddings. I’ve taken pictures of 10 or 15 weddings, bands, families, maternity shoots..everything you could possibly take pictures of I’ve done lately. I’ve also move into a townhouse and done too many things to mention. It’s been [...]
 

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted any wedding blogs. Not to say i haven’t photographed any weddings. I’ve taken pictures of 10 or 15 weddings, bands, families, maternity shoots..everything you could possibly take pictures of I’ve done lately. I’ve also move into a townhouse and done too many things to mention. It’s been in the 12-1Photography world! So now we calm down a bit and I can do a few blog posts about weddings and everything else. Though i do need to finish editing the last 3 weddings! I just had to take a break from editing so i don’t get burnt out while looking at this computer screen. I’ve been really blessed to have the amount of photography work i have coming in. I have been so blessed to be able to photograph some of the absolutely coolest people getting married in Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater, Sarasota and many other places in Florida.

Here is a beautifully awesome couple Bobby and Jennifer. I met them a few years ago at my church through some other friends. I never expect to photograph everyone in the church for their wedding or family or whatever happens. Its definitely a happy surprise when i get asked to do it since there are a ton of wedding photographers in the TampaBay area. I was happy to take pictures for Bobby & Jennifer when they asked. I’m always a bit nervous every wedding i do because I want to give the couple the best pictures they can possibly get. I know i can do a good job but I want to do a GREAT job for every couple. Jennifer & Bobby’s wedding was no different.

I was excited with the view i saw when I pulled up to the Kingsway Country Club in Lake suzy, Florida right outside of Port Charlotte and Venice where we shot another wedding for Erin and Jared. I was even more excited to see that our favorite DJ mr. Ron Michel from Universal Music Entertainment was there! Yeah! We had a great time. The mood was fan and relaxed all day which allowed for some great pictures. A great attitude always helps to create great pictures and Jennifer and Bobby were Great!

Here’s some of favorites from their really great Lake Suzy / Port charlotte wedding. Jennifer and Bobby were both in high spirits!

I love the way the caught each others eyes.

The setting at Kingsway country club is beautiful.

Happily Married!

These are some of my favorites!

The Reception was fun and Ron kept the party going!

A good time was had by all. It was a great day at the Kingsway country club. If you are looking for a great all in one wedding and reception site in and around Port Charlotte, Venice, Florida or Lake Suzy the Kingsway Country club has it!

Thanks to Bobby and Jennifer for having us photograph their wedding!

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Tampa Senior Portrait Photography | Christina

April 13th, 2010

We’ve been extremely busy lately doing wedding photography, taking really cool pictures of bands and doing some really cool senior portraits in the Tampa bay area! We us usually run ads for Senior portrait photographers in the Tampa area, and it’s not often that we actually get to do pictures of someone that lives IN [...]
 

We’ve been extremely busy lately doing wedding photography, taking really cool pictures of bands and doing some really cool senior portraits in the Tampa bay area! We us usually run ads for Senior portrait photographers in the Tampa area, and it’s not often that we actually get to do pictures of someone that lives IN Tampa. Christina actually lives right in the middle of all that is Tampa!

We drove to her house in Tampa and picked Christina and her mom up with no ideas of what we were going to do. We literally drove around looking for a cool locations for senior portraits that would fit Christina. After a few minutes we found our first picture location! It was really cold that day and that made it hard to get out, but we braved it! Each picture place got even harder to get out of the car. We ended up pulling up to the last few places sitting in the car talking about the cool pictures we could probably take there before just hopping out and going for it. We had a lot of fun and hope to do a lot of senior portrait photography in Tampa and the surrounding areas this year.

Here are a few of our favorites from Christina’s Senior Portrait session in her home of Tampa!

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The guy with the eye | Bobby & Jennifer

March 11th, 2010

Jennifer & Bobby are one of the coolest and sweetest couples we have ever had the privilege of hanging out with and photographing their wedding. The wedding took place at the beautiful Kingsway Country Club in Lake Suzy florida. The day was perfect! Plenty of sunshine, a few clouds to soften the light just right [...]
 

Jennifer & Bobby are one of the coolest and sweetest couples we have ever had the privilege of hanging out with and photographing their wedding. The wedding took place at the beautiful Kingsway Country Club in Lake Suzy florida. The day was perfect! Plenty of sunshine, a few clouds to soften the light just right and two beautiful families surrounded by equally beautiful friends. I named this one “The guy with the eye” because Bobby has a habit which we all had fun with, hopefully not at too much of his expense since he is seriously one of the greatest guys we have ever met. Bobby raises his right eyebrow in most pictures he takes as to say I am happy,.. or distinguished… or I really love my woman and I’ll do anything for her. We all had a lot of fun trying to tame the brow, but it does ad a certain class to the pictures.

The started off perfectly, as i said. Matt and I drive the 2 hours to Lake Suzy from Tampa. Though most  weddings we photograph take place in the Tampa area we are always open to the idea of and sort of destination, if its Lake Suzy or Jamaica we’ll be there to cover the wedding in typical 12-1 photography style! As soon as we arrived we took a stroll around to admiring the grounds and get a feel for how the day would go. While walking around we went up to the reception room and noticed a familiar DJ set up….. Ron from Universal Music Entertainment Ron is our favorite DJ of all time. He is seriously the coolest DJ in all of Tampa, Florida and the US! He make the job of photography easy at a wedding reception.  Ok, I’ve said enough. This isn’t even the real full wedding photography blog for this wedding. It”s just a sneak peek! I’m just so excited about the pictures we were able to capture at this wedding that i can’t stop! I love wedding photography and smiles and brides and grooms, flowers and flower girls, ring bearers. The world of wedding photography is great and Matt and I both love it and feel so blessed to be able to do it. Hope it never ends!

Here’s a few more pictures to enjoy!

The end for now!

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