Family Beach Portraits Destin Florida

Family beach sessions are one of my favorite shoots and this session was no exception. These little girls and their parents were a blast to work with. Thanks guys for choosing me to document your family's stay on our beautiful Emerald Coast.

A little cutie at a Destin Beach Wedding

Recently I had the opportunity to shoot with the beautiful and talented Kelly Young at the wedding of the beautiful and talented Sandy McCranie and I will be sharing those images soon. But first I wanted to share these images of Sandy's little boy. I had such a wonderful time watching him run around all night. He is such a cutie!

Beasley Park Family Reunion Beach Portraits

This family is from four different states and they decided at the last minute that they wanted to have family portraits made to commemorate their stay in Destin. They had arranged with another photographer early in the morning to take their portraits, but that photographer had to cancel so they called me at 5:30 PM. I live 45 minutes to an hour from Destin depending on the traffic and it was pouring at my house but they assured me that is was "dry" in Destin, so I jumped in my car and headed out explaining that they needed to be ready to shoot as soon as I got there because we were going to lose the sun fast. I ended up shooting past sunset by cranking up the ISO and shooting with flash. But I have to admit that this was one of my favorite sessions ever.This is one of the most amazing families that I have been privileged to meet. They are all funny, friendly, beautiful and just so full of life and laughter. I love all the families that I meet, but this family just melted my heart and made me feel so special, they were just fantastic.

So what do you get when you combine two fun loving grandparents...

with their four amazing children and their families......


and two smoking hot couples....

You get a beautiful family of 19 that visits a new location every two years together for a family reunion!



And here is a shot of just the grandparents with their grand kids!

Beasly Park Family Beach Portraits

Meet Andrews Family....





This Illinois family was visiting Destin and of course they wanted Family Beach Portraits and as usual it was raining in Florida! I'm still trying to figure out why we are call the Sunshine State, because we sure haven't seen much sunshine these last few weeks... So we shot between showers and managed to get a few shots in before the floods came again....


Meet Andrew's parents... and check out those storm clouds in the sky!

The next two shots are all about DAD. I did not pose Dad! He was really into his beach session and was a blast and kept me laughing the whole shoot! You rock Doug!

Meet Ryan, he's Andrew's brother...

Is this shot funny or what? I asked them to give Mom a kiss on the cheek and you would have thought I asked them to get "root canals"!

We finally got tired of battling the wind and rain and hit the SWAMP but not before I managed to slip and fall on the steps leading to the parking lot! Yes, can you believe it? I fell right on my rear-end in front of everyone but I didn't drop my camera! I did however have a few very ugly painful bruises the next day and I now know that if the steps at Beasley Park are the least little bit wet, "Do not walk down them really fast wearing high-heeled sandals"! :o)

Hope you guys enjoyed your session and your vacation despite the storms and thank you for being so concerned over my slip and fall and not laughing your heads off! I hope I see you guys next year and I can't wait for Ryan's senior year.

2010 Illinois High School Senior at Beasley Park on Okaloosa Island

2010 Illinois High School Senior at Beasly Park on Okaloosa Island

Meet Andrew...

Andrew and his family were visiting Destin for their summer vacation and mom wanted some senior shots of her "Big Boy" to go along with the traditional senior shots he had taken by the school photographer. The day of their session was scattered with Thunder Storms and it was windy! Did I say windy, I mean it was "WINDYYYYYYYYYYYY". The sand was blowing and the waves were crashing and it was their last day in Destin so we couldn't reschedule. So in between storms we hit the beach and managed a few shots before the rain started again. Here are a few of my favorites from the beach....

SOOOOOOOOOOO, What do you do when it's raining on the beach? You find another spot close by to shoot at. So we hit the "Swamp" a local restaurant at the Boardwalk and we finished Andrews session there. Here's a few of my favorites from the Swamp...