Carly + Kevin Step Into The Limelight | Fort De Soto | St. Petersburg, FL

Beach Views, Historic Forts, and Sweet Moments | Carly + Kevin

Carly and Kevin’s engagement session took place at Fort De Soto, just south of St. Petersburg. It’s one of my favorite locations for beach sessions because of how much variety it offers in a relatively small area. Between the historic fort, waterfront views, pathways, pier, and beach, every part of the park brings something different to the photos.

We started along one of the pathways leading toward the beach before heading up onto the fort itself for a few photos overlooking the water. From there, we made our way to the other side of the park where the scenery shifts again, with a pier, rocky shoreline, and open Gulf views.

Carly and Kevin moved to Dunedin last October and are getting married a year later this October at Shephard’s Beach Resort in Clearwater.

Fort De Soto was the perfect place for this session. It gave us a mix of backdrops that kept things feeling fresh and fun throughout the evening, and matched their energy really well as we moved through each area.

After spending the evening with them, I’m really looking forward to seeing them again and photographing their wedding day this October. It was an easygoing session from start to finish, and they made it simple to just enjoy the time and capture them as they are together.

Lead Photographer | Jeff Mitchell

Location | Fort De Soto

Sammi + Mihai Step Into The Limelight | St. Pete Pier | St. Petersburg, FL

Pure joy = Sammi + Mihai’s love.

Engagement sessions are some of our favorite session to capture because it allows us to get to know our bride and groom outside of the busyness of the wedding day, and we sure LOVED this session with Sammi and Mihai.

Sammi and Mihai wanted photos in St. Pete, where we could highlight the beautiful sunset in the city and walk around the pier during golden hour, and that we did! It was truly a beautiful day for an engagement session, with cooler temps, a slight breeze and the light hit the cityscape just perfectly the entire session.

Sammi and Mihai radiate joy, love and excitement. Photographing them together was truly so easy and fun. These two are tying the knot in April 2024 and we couldn’t be more excited for them!!

Lead Photographer | Tara Zimmerman
Associate Photographer | Jackie Pizio

Location | St. Pete Pier

Michelle + Alex Step Into The Limelight | Abercrombie Park | St. Petersburg, FL

Michelle and Alex met on Bumble and were engaged two months ago. They are seriously the sweetest! They brought me a homemade bottle of wine that they created together as a thank you gift to our session. They really enjoy wine making together,, along with cooking, bowling and playing golf. It was a beautiful day in St Pete and we met at a hidden little treasure called Abercrombie Park. We had beautiful spring weather and a gorgeous sunset! Congratulations Michelle and Alex! We cannot wait for your wedding in February! 

Lead Photographer | Rebecca Zoumberos 
Associate Photographer | Jackie Pizio

Jessica + Jakob Step Into The Limelight | Vinoy Park | St. Petersburg, FL

Engagement sessions in Florida in the summer are always an adventure! In Jessica and Jakob’s case, we had been trying to dodge rain for weeks. Eventually we decided to brave the storms and see if we could create some magic in beautiful downtown St. Pete.

Jessica and Jakob had a wonderful image in mind of capturing the skyline of downtown St. Pete with a wonderful sunset behind it to commemorate that they will be getting married here in May of 2022. Unfortunately the sunset did not cooperate due to storms in the area, but the clouds created a dramatic backdrop and allowed Jessica and Jakob to steal the show with her beautiful white dress and his classic button down shirt.

They also had an outfit change in the middle of the shoot, and we moved over to a botanical garden to get some color in the shoot, and it was definitely the highlight of the evening. The garden was beautiful and really accented the two of them and allowed them to get really comfortable in front of the camera.

Sometimes with couples, you can just tell when they have a different kind of love by the way they look at each other. Jessica and Jakob had love in their eyes the whole evening from start to finish. They persevered through rain, red tide, and wind and still managed to look absolutely stunning throughout. I absolutely cannot wait to be a part of their big day with (hopefully) some fantastic weather to go with it :) These two are special!

Lead Photographer | Nick Brown
Assistant Photographer | Alexa Rodriguez

Locations | Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum + Vinoy Park (Truth Sculpture)