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Video | Hammock Beach Resort wedding | Palm Coast wedding | St. Augustine wedding photographer

Video slideshow of recent wedding that we photographed at the prestigious Hammock Beach Resort located in Palm Coast, Florida. As experienced Jacksonville wedding photographers we just love photographing in at this gorgeous ocean side resort. It is located just minutes from St. Augustine and Jacksonville, this is such a great location for a wedding. So many great backdrops for stunning wedding day images!!

To view more images, please visit our Tampa wedding photography website at www.evaphotostudio.com or go to our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/EvaPhotoStudio
Video Slideshow can be purchased on DVD. Email Eva Photo Studio at evaphotostudio@yahoo.com if you are interested in purchasing.

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Jamie and Eva | Hammock Beach Resort wedding | Palm Coast wedding photographer

The following are some of our favorite images from the wedding of Eva and Jamie. We met Eva and Jamie several months ago and instantly connected with them. I particularly loved how much I had in common with Eva: same first name, a shared love of dogs, and we were both from Europe!! Meeting with Eva and Jamie was such a pleasant experience. They are so warm and personable and we felt an instant connection with them when we first met them. We talked a ton about how they met, their wedding plans and many other things. After meeting with them, we knew that we really wanted to photograph their wedding and capture how much they loved each other.

As Jacksonville wedding photographers, we were so excited to photograph this wedding. The morning of the wedding, we woke up and saw that the forecast called for a 60%+ chance of rain! We prepared our equipment and made plans for how we would photograph if it did rain. We always like to be prepared for anything. As we arrived at the resort, the skies looked like rain was imminent. The resort staff had prepared an indoor area for a ceremony, just in case. Luckily the rain didn’t come, and the outdoor ceremony proceeded as scheduled. Better still, during the ceremony the dark clouds parted and the sun came out for good. What a great sign for Jamie and Eva! After the ceremony, we headed over to the beautiful golf course that runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean. We got some great shots there and overlooking the beach. We also took advantage of the many beautiful areas within the resort before heading back to the yacht for the reception. The whole day was a lot of fun and we were really sad at the end of the night when we had to leave. We look forward to seeing them again whenever we go back to the Hammock Beach Resort to photograph many future weddings!

Wedding Planner: Keith Keiser [ www.hammockbeach.com ]
Catering: Keith Keiser [ http://www.hammockbeach.com ]
DJ: DJ Justin [ www.credibleproductions.com ]
Florist: Blooming Flowers [ www.bloomingflowersandgifts.com ]
Cake: The Pastry Studio [ www.thepastrystudio.com ]
Hair Stylist: Heidi Brodick [ The Spa at Hammock Beach Resort ]
Makeup: Christina Kingsley [ The Spa at Hammock Beach Resort ]

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Video | Family Portrait session | Tampa portrait photographer

We have been so busy over the past couple of months with a lot of local sessions, one in California and another recent one on the east coast of Florida, that we inadvertently forgot to blog one of our favorites. We have photographed this wonderful family before and were very happy to get another opportunity to photograph them again at the end of 2011. This is such a close knit family and we love to see how much fun they all have together. We photographed part of the session at a wonderful local park and lake, which had a lot of beautiful waterside backdrops for our pictures. We brought along one of our chairs and got some cool pictures of the girls, who were having a lot of fun modeling for us. We later drove over to one of our other favorite locations and focused a little bit on one of the kids favorite activities….soccer!! Out came their favorite soccer ball and their playful personalities again.

Again, we had a ton of fun. As professional Tampa family portrait photographers, we realize that the way to get the best and most natural looking pictures, is to make sure that everyone is having a lot of fun. We love just going out and doing lots of fun stuff, interacting with our clients, finding out about all of the interesting things that they do and capturing some great images inbetween all the fun. I think this session shows what a fun day this was!

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New award! | Voted as top 5% of all photographers | Tampa wedding photographer

We have been very busy with a lot of Client meetings and booking many weddings for 2012/2013 that we haven’t had a chance to post the full email regarding the recent announcement that we have been chosen to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards 2012 for wedding photography! As a Tampa Bay wedding photographer we are extremely honored to receive this award and proud to share this great news with you.

Below is a copy of the press release which announces this great honor!

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Eva Photo Studio has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Eva Photo Studio was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Eva Photo Studio is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Eva Photo Studio for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Eva Photo Studio is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

At Eva Photo Studio we pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality of service for all of our Clients. It is so rewarding when we get positive feedback and great reviews. Definitely makes all of the hard work worthwhile.

We want to thank each and every couple who has recognized our exceptional service and our great photography. We also look forward to the many Clients that we will be working with in the future. We look forward to capturing the many precious moments at your special event. Whether we are photographing a wedding, a family portrait session, a maternity portrait session, a newborn baby portrait session or anything else; we promise to always work at giving you images that you and your entire family will treasure forever!

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Ybor engagement session | Tampa wedding photographer | Eva Photo Studio

Some of our favorite images from a recent engagement session we photographed in Ybor City. As experienced Tampa wedding photographers, we just love photographing engagement sessions. These sessions allow us to spend time with our couples and get to know them better. They are always relaxed and a lot of fun. We get to find out more about how they met, their unique love stories and each couple gets to know our personalities and shooting style. This is great because on their wedding day, they feel much more comfortable with us and they are much more relaxed and this results in great pictures on their wedding day!

We had so much fun on this session. We walked around Ybor and found some great locations. Dennis and Josie were both so much fun to hang out with and were always open to all of our photo ideas. We are thrilled by the results and cannot wait to photograph their upcoming wedding at the Powel Crosley Estate.

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St. Petersburg engagement session | downtown & Dali Museum | St. Petersburg wedding photographer

We recently photographed this beautiful engagement session with Dana and Rob, who will be getting married in March. For their engagement session, they picked downtown St. Petersburg. Many people have a misconception about St. Pete and think that it is still a sleepy little city for retirees. As experienced St. Petersburg wedding photographers, we know that is no longer the case! St. Petersburg is now a vibrant city with a vibrant nightlife and lots of great street cafes, art galleries and world class museums. It also boasts some great parks and spectacular waterfront views.

We started of the session on the grounds of the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, which is housed in a very beautiful building with some great architectural features. After shooting there for a little bit, we moved on to Straub Park next door where there are some amazing banyan trees with some amazing trunk and root structures. After getting lots of cool shots at the museum and the park, we took a break to let our couple change clothes and then headed south to the new Salvador Dali Museum. The new building housing so many priceless paintings of this great artist, is itself an amazing feast for the eyes. Inspired by the Salvador Dali surroundings, we experimented with many different angles and composition elements. Rob and Dana were very open to our artistic vision and ideas, and we just spent the afternoon having a lot of fun with this awesome couple. The hours melted away and before we knew it sunset was upon us. After doing some romantic sunset pictures we called it a day. We can’t wait until their March wedding!


To view other images, check out our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/EvaPhotoStudio

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Video | Ybor City engagement session | Tampa wedding photographer

Video slideshow of recent engagement session we photographed in Ybor City. As experienced Tampa wedding photographers, we just love photographing in Ybor City. It is located just minutes from downtown Tampa, and is a great place to spend an afternoon. We had so much fun walking around Ybor and discovering some cool new spots to photograph. Dennis and Josie were both so much fun to hang out with and were always open to all of our photo ideas. We are thrilled by the results and cannot wait to photograph their upcoming wedding at the Powel Crosley Estate.

To view more images, please visit our Tampa wedding photography website at www.evaphotostudio.com or go to our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/EvaPhotoStudio

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Video | Feather Sound Country Club wedding | Clearwater wedding photographers

Below is a video containing many of our favorite images from the recent wedding of Heather and Drew. They got married December 31, 2011 at the Feather Sound Community Church and held their reception at the Feather Sound Country Club. It was a gorgeous wedding and a really fun way to ring in a great 2012 for everyone in attendance.

To view more images, please visit our Tampa wedding photography website at www.evaphotostudio.com or go to our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/EvaPhotoStudio

Video Slideshow can be purchased on DVD. Email Eva Photo Studio at evaphotostudio@yahoo.com if you are interested in purchasing.

Below are the wonderful vendors we worked with:

Church: Feather Sound Church
Venue:  Feather Sound Country Club
DJ:  Grant Hemmond & Associates (DJ Eric Harding)
Florist:  Lauren Atkinson
Weddding Dress Shop:  CC’s Bridal
Hair & Makeup: Donna Camposecco
Dress Designer:  Pronovias
Shoe Designer: Vera Wang
Tuxedo Shop: Men’s Wearhouse
Invitations: Brides.com

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Feather Sound Country Club wedding | Clearwater wedding photographer

Question: How does an experienced Tampa wedding photographer spend their new years eve? Answer: Photographing an amazing wedding with an awesome couple and all of their fun family and friends!! This was such a fun day. We started off at the Feather Sound Community Church, where we took pictures of Heather getting ready and sharing some fun times with her mom and brides maids. The ceremony was very beautiful and officiated by a good friend who drove down from Gainesville just for this couple.

After the ceremony, we drove over to the Feather Sound Country Club which was only a few minutes away. Once there, everyone enjoyed an amazing dinner and danced the night away to the super talented DJ Eric Harding from Grant Hemmond & Associates. DJ Eric Harding kept the music pumping and the dance floor packed until well past midnight and the end of the reception. We finished off the evening photographing their grand exit as all of their friends and family saluted with sparklers. We also took the opportunity to take some fun pictures of Heather and Drew drawing a heart with their sparklers. If you ask us, we couldn’t have asked for a better or more fun way to ring in 2012!!

Church: Feather Sound Church
Venue: Feather Sound Country Club
DJ: Grant Hemmond & Associates (DJ Eric Harding)
Florist: Lauren Atkinson
Weddding Dress Shop: CC’s Bridal
Hair & Makeup: Donna Camposecco
Dress Designer: Pronovias
Shoe Designer: Vera Wang
Tuxedo Shop: Men’s Wearhouse
Invitations: Brides.com











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California bridal session | Figueroa Mountain | Tampa destination wedding photographer

This bridal photo session was such an amazing experience. It was such an honor getting the opportunity to work with so many talented and genuinely nice people. We first met Jill La Fleur and Camilla Svensson Burns last March at the 2011 WPPI wedding photography convention in Las Vegas. They are so nice and personable. Even if you’ve never met them before, within 5 minutes of meeting them you will feel like they have been lifelong friends. We had been planning this event for several months and were so excited when the time came to finally fly out to California. As a professional Tampa wedding photographer, we have photographed at so many beautiful Florida locations, but it was so nice getting a chance to go to California and photograph at a completely new location. This part of California, just north of Santa Barbara, is gorgeous. Lots of rolling hills, vineyards and very cool little towns. Our favorite little town was Solvang, a town built like a replica village from Denmark. The town features windmills, Danish bakeries, and some great restaurants!

Below are some of our favorite images:

Photography: Eva Photo Studio
Event Planning: La Fleur Weddings
Flowers: Camilla Flowers
Rentals: Found Vintage Rentals
Plates, Glassware, Silverware: Anthropologie
Dress: Nicole Miller
Hair Pieces & Lace Caplet: Mignonne Handmade
Invites: Velvet Raptor
Hair and Makeup: Mar R. of TEAM Hair and Makeup
Model: Jessica Paterson