Country & Coastal & Suburban

Beach & Lake & River & Park & Farm

I live a Central Florida lifestyle.

Town & Country.

Most of my life, I lived in the suburbs, with a country vibe,

living near lakes and woods. I always had the privilege 

of enjoying very close, nearby country life.

I've lived near and loved the Jersey Shore, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall,

I crave the ocean air , river breezes and beach sand.

As of autumn 2022, 

I officially looked forward to becoming a coastal person again.

I love living along the beautiful Indian River Lagoon.

I've loved the Catskills and the Pocono mountains.

I vacationed in the Adirondack mountains in Autumn,

and Cape Cod in Summer. I was an avid photographer,

of a highly competitive nature and I entered a lot of ,

photography contests.

Somewhere among Adirondack magazines my photos are published.

I don't know where anymore.

I did live in the country, in the mountains ,a couple years.

When I moved here, there were cows grazing across the street.

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Cityscapes-

Don't judge me by my Eastern Central Florida lifestyle.

I actually lived in the big beautiful metropolitan Tri-State area

near NYC, Metro-Newark, NJ for 9 years.

My parents and grandparents were city folks too.

I have all the urban experience necessary 

to capture your city vibe.

I have spent most of the years of my life,

since I was born, soaking up the NYC vibe,

for fun, dining, entertainment and work,

pounding the pavement of Madison Avenue, looking for advertising work,

and design work in the garment district, and took great pride in being a patron of the Arts.

My parents, born in the city, became suburbanites,

but my grandma lived in the city

and made it a regular part of my life. Grandma taught me from an early age, about people watching and skills of observation. She would take me to NYC and we would hang out and soak up the vibes and observe the hustle and bustle of city people, shop, go to shows and eat. She also inspired my love for fashion designing and photography. She was quite the professional diva, as a woman with a love for fashion , she worked for Lord & Taylor and had the privilege of working with famous models and designers, celebrities and the wealthy ,in a day when famous people shopped just outside the city, at a very popular upscale N.J. location​
 

 

My Big Coastal Move & New Interests

Well here it is.

Sooner or later it's going to be your time to interview me.

And, you're going to ask me these questions.

So, here's the deal. I've been a professional photographer on and off, with some pretty impressive professional careers in-between.  I have taken it up seriously again, you know ,since the early two thousands, reopened my physical studio, just 7 years ago to the public officially. My focus was not yet on wedding photography, not really.

  I learned wedding photography when I was younger, when it came to working in the post processing field ,working in the photo lab and with the dark room photographer,  processing wedding photos and photo restorations , event photos and everything , yes , learning how to make the photo accurately, as well as into a work of art, as well as being a photographer and working with other photographers and learning the industry and learning about the business. ​I developed film and printed photos for hundreds of weddings.

 

So after a lifetime of careers and professional photography experience,

I guess I put weddings behind me, considering they were my basic training.

 

This time around, I am choosing to spend more time getting to know the wedding business, in Florida ,although my focus had been different.  I had a different aim. I wasn't aiming at the wedding industry but fell in love with it. I was thinking along the lines of travel photography, of going to fashion week ,getting jobs with nature magazines ,contributing to charitable & environmental websites. That was my aim, so, the wedding industry hadn't made a real impact on my focus yet. Now that doing a lot of photography work, industrial ,environmental, commercial and portrait photography, families ,portraits, occasions and events. But I hadn't yet really focused on the wedding industry. I had never been married, never had children. So maybe I thought that disqualified me a little. You know because everybody who has a family wedding to go to, thinks that they're a wedding photographer. And I don't want to insult anybody but every mom who has a camera thinks she's a professional photographer when she gets a cute kid.  ​

 Now I probably happened into the wedding industry a little bit accidentally. As a real mega pro professional photographer , I am always butting heads with other professionals really digging deep into the industry, learning, blogging, educating and getting educated myself, mentoring and teaching newbies.

 

I like to jump in and help other people ,I like to share my knowledge ,experience and education with other photographers, so, I'm always out there socializing with other photographers. Getting into webinars, seminars,  social media groups, all of the time really delving deep into meeting the people in the industry. This is what I do. Somehow ,I happened into meeting a lot of wedding photographers. And, somehow I got taken under their wing. And somehow I found out that, hey, I could really do this and I really love it. I jumped off the deep end into the wedding photography industry, doing trade shows ,styled shoots, seminars ,webinars, online workshops and education and photography groups and butting heads with other wedding photographers, intentionally throwing myself to the wolves and getting my ass kicked by them.​

 I intentionally threw myself to the wolves to see what they were going to do to me. I told them ,that I want to get into some wedding photography, now ,as well as all of the other photography endeavors that  I already have in my life as a professional photographer. They took me under their wing. Maybe I didn't realize it,  I already had it all, and still was missing out on something that's really a lot of fun. Fun. I didn't realize it was fun. It's really fun. And I really love the wedding industry. I love it so much. So I  got to the trade shows and got to start knowing vendors on social media. Then the Covid19 twenty-twenty year of the industry shutdown hit. ​

Then I spent too much time at home, like everyone did ,though I did some trade shows and styled shoots before the shutdown hit. Since then  I have been intensely focusing on my education, learning the wedding industry inside and out .I have done  learning webinars, workshops, seminars , educational videos, educational groups , delving in deep into the photography industry and learning from my peers and mentors , joining wedding groups and listening to real couples planning real weddings. I follow all the vendors, florists, caterers, venues, wedding planners, entertainers, bridal salons , and bakers and more. A well known photographer said something like, that the more photos that you see, the better photographer you will be. So, I look at as many wedding photos as I can get my eyes on. Tell me your vision and I am going to do my homework to make it happen for you. 

 

And here I am ready to shoot you. If I can go to Daytona bike week and shoot 4000 bikers and I can go to Mecum Auctions, and shoot 3000 cars, quite the challenges, believe me ,I can shoot a couple of hundred people at weddings, no problem. From client experience, to price package offers, from creativity, workflow and quality to delivery, I excel at flexibility and ability to work with others. I have excelled in photographic experience above and beyond the basic wedding shoot.​

I am finding a passion for all the elements of the wedding world and loving fashion as it pertains to the real people wearing fashion in the wedding industry. As a humanitarian artist, I had not been aiming for a local following but for creating the universal following ,as well as enjoying some celebrity following. I had picked up a bit of a celebrity following, just working in the beauty industry, and picked it up again, when I started shooting again in Florida in 2002. My books and music have also developed quite an international following and popularity, especially in some other countries where new age music may be more popular of a mainstream genre, of the majority, in India and Africa.  I did have music channels on  iTunes and I can't think of the dozens other names of the other ones, for a few years. Actually I developed quite a following among the people of the country of India and some of Africa on my iHeartRadio and Spotify channels. Now I just sell the books on Amazon .​ The music is free  online. 

 

Niching into different participation in photography.

I love wedding photography and commercial photography too.

I would ultimately like to concentrate more on commercial photography

within the wedding industry.

Now the time finally came in the Summer of 2022 for me to make a major commitment. I  moved my business to the east coast of Florida to pursue participation in the wedding industry in a much more meaningful way. I am really looking forward to meeting all the lovely dedicated. serious wedding professionals who I've come to know and love on social media. I am very excited about meeting all the newly engaged couples so I can get down to some serious business shooting weddings. I leave my once little but growing town behind, which has been good to me in commercial photography business, because it's just not the best location for my current business endeavors. More often than not, the locals are choosing a wedding venue that's in a popular tourist destination. Whether it be theme park, historical or coastal.

I have moved to the east coast where the action is.

 

 

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Making it Real and Keeping it Real.

When it comes to the importance of post processing, my earliest days of learning photography , from the post process end of the business,

involved developing photos for medical emergencies and health department investigations, following the progress of a preemie through a family's months of grief, hope, life-and-death moments.

When accuracy was crucial, I got my life lesson in making photos REAL. Getting real life, real true to life, photographic results ,were a critical necessity to my customers.

Real true, real light, real people, real photos.

Real color. Color theory was one of my specialties

which I concentrated on in art school.

That's why today, I can deliver a quality, on time product, because I possess knowledge ,education and real life experience in the photography world.

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Quality Performance

Quality Product

Reliable Delivery

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Life Experience.

Able to shoot in many environments.

 

If, I don't have experience ,shooting your situation,

I am very patient and willing to make a generous effort. 

I'll work even harder to make sure you’re happy!

You already know that I am a great photographer, but do you know that :

I have had careers in the beauty product education and salon industry ,as an artist, in advertising & marketing, event planning, doing  trade shows & workshops management, working with models on stage, in shows, in salon & studio, restaurant & hotel catering industry, so , I have been behind the scenes of the modeling  & wedding industries, not just behind the camera.

 

I know my way around many industry & industrial situations.
 

Experience working with individual models

and beauty shows ,trade shows ,
beauty salons , beauty workshops , hair dressers ,

platform artists , make up artists. 
Experience working with beauty industry professionals ,

executives , buyers ,designers ,boutiques , vendors.
 

Experience working in food preparation ,

management of hotel-motel ,

restaurant  , banquets , catering ,

funerals , weddings
trade shows, event planning.

 

Published author , composer.

Experience working with publishing of books and music cd's.
Experienced graphic designer, creative designer, copy writer,

working in advertising , artist ,

working with printers , publishers.

 

Photo Printing experience.

Experience running a photo printing lab. (read more)

I have a lot of experience printing photos. In my early photography years and most recently from 2015-2019 I had a fully stocked studio with printers that printed up to 30 inch poster prints. I did custom in house printing. It was expensive and time consuming. My prices were six times what online printers were charging but my clients paid the price for my personal undivided attention. Unfortunately a single person cannot compete with big companies who buy paper and ink in bulk.

Experience with automotive industry, car shows , dealers , collectors,

car sales, mechanics, towing, procurement, rentals, vendors.

 

Experienced in operations, procurement, purchasing, trading, traffic,

shipping, containerizing, warehousing , management .

 

Experience with special needs persons youths and seniors. 
 

I studied the arts & communications in college and worked as a photographer in my 20's then moved on to other careers which gave me phenomenal life & business experience, including the beauty industry, advertising, executive experience, trading, brokering ,buying experience and more, but moving up the corporate ladder seemed to result in moving to another industry, so, I left the arts behind . I returned home to Central Florida to accompany, stay with , elderly family in 2002 and started shooting again. Getting back in touch with lifelong connections, I developed a following as an artist , author, photographer , all over again.

 

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Studio relocated.

2015 started working on the studio,

after a long sabbatical 2002-2015 involved with family
responsibilities keeping company with
and care of senior family after deaths in family
and elderly family death.
Studio began online in 2010,

physical studio began building in 2015,
Studio physical location in business since 2017.
remodeled several times  2018-2026

I began building the physical studio in my home in 2015 after my mom was diagnosed with
cancer and passed away , only a few months later, suddenly on Christmas eve-eve 2014.
Sunsets were my mom's greatest passion. After grandma passed away, mom and I planned on
starting the studio together, after she was feeling better ,but our plan ended abruptly with her
death. We hoped to bring all the lovely people of Central Florida into our beautiful home
studio to service all their photography needs, and do some traveling too.

Meanwhile, I have enjoyed life in Florida 24 years..

Moving to the Coast
The beaches, riverfront , lagoon and coastal communities are are oh
so popular and favorite destinations for weddings.
The last surviving patriarch of our family, my uncle has passed on to be with his wife, my aunt,
my mom's sister, our grandma, my mom, his sisters, parents and all the many lost loved ones
gone on to heaven. We no longer had the need for the huge house intended to accommodate
seven generations of family , five generations who had lived there and all the future generations to
come. We're down to two generations, us two cousins, and neither of us had children, so , no
grandchildren and great grandchildren. The old house will have to carry on to the seven
generations of someone else's family now.

 

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So we two cousins share a studio now,

my photography expertise & his music expertise,

together in our beautiful newly built home on the coast.

 

The move.

So it took a year and a half to pack up and move the big house by myself , got all
the preparations for selling the house done, they sold the big house, and I am in the new
house.

I have time to get on social media and network. I have time again to get into
wedding business webinars and getting education.

... Building a new house.

Delayed.

There were building delays and two hurricanes.

ETA was June, then late September .

We were hunkering down for a hurricane.

We had a September hurricane.

That got the whole state delayed doing everything. The store shelves were empty.

There was absolutely no gas at any gas station. Travel was difficult.

Then it was October.

We were finally ready to move into the new house.

I had a rare November hurricane for my birthday!

More Hurricanes. There were more delays.

There were injuries. Moving is hard to do.

There were family complications.

As of summer 2025, there was still unpacking and reorganizing to do.

We had to get my cousin moved in, long distance.

That was tricky at best.

Time was not on our side.

There was  a lot of redecorating.

We have been to every antique store and thrift shop on the coast.

And... most of the restaurants too!

We are finally settled in.

We love our new house.

I am Coastal now.

I am finally  in a beautiful coastal community on the Indian River Lagoon.​

Once again loving the inlet, ocean air , lagoon breezes and beach sand.

I am ready to get going on my new business in late 2025 .

I am really looking forward to getting out on the road in 2026 and meeting everyone!

It has been a three year journey to relocate.

 

 

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I am the owner of a professional shooting studio, in Grant-Valkaria,

specializing in photojournalism, event, portrait and commercial photography.

Member of

The Saint Cloud Chamber of Commerce 2017 2018

Member of

The Florida Professional Photographers Association 2017 2018

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