"The photographer of the Treasure Coast and Indian River Lagoon — commercial, wedding, and lifestyle imagery for the hospitality, travel, and outdoor recreation industries."

About Me

&

What I Do For You

Featuring

The

Photojournalistic

Photography

Work Of

Lauramarie Pepsin

We Are Coastal.

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 professionals

who I've come to

know and love

on social media.

So this is what I'm going to do for you when you schedule a session with me.

With me there's no limit. There's no limit to what I could do for you. There is no limit to what I'm willing to do for you. I am going to do everything it takes to get the best of you.

To show the best of you in your photos. To bring out the best of you. To capture the best of you.

I'm going to talk to you. We’ll have fun. I'm going to tell you stories. I’m going to ask you to tell me stories. What kind of stories do you like? We will have a discussion. You’ll relax.

This is a good time to identify any self consciousness you may have about your body, if you have a favorite side, if you hate your chin or arms or anything. I'll take a lot of warm up shots.

When you relax you’ll be ready to do a little posing.

There's no limit to how many shots I will take of you. There's no number of pose limits. No limit to shots. Then I will take as many shots as I have to, until I capture you. the real you,

the way you want to be captured & I won't stop until you're satisfied.

I’m going to give you the best of me, in order to capture the best of you.

" Why do you need a seven foot umbrella?"

" Can't you just use a phone ?"
NO. I WANT TO USE TWO SLAVES.

TWO BARE BULB BOLTS.

AT LEAST ONE BEAUTY DISH & SIX UMBRELLAS

& A COUPLE OF PHOTO FLOODS.
LUNCH MAY BE COLD & LATE.
THIS IS NOT A RESTAURANT.
IT'S A PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO.

Coastal & Suburban

Town & Country.

I love living along the beautiful Indian River Lagoon.

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

I lived in the suburbs with lakes and woods, country, mountains,

Jersey Shore Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall,

vacationed in the Catskills and the Poconos, Adirondack mountains in Autumn, Cape Cod in Summer.

As an avid photographer, of a highly competitive nature I entered photography contests.

Somewhere among Adirondack magazines my photos are published.

When I moved to Florida, we lived on the edge of the country where there were cows grazing across the street.

Cityscapes-

Don't judge me by my Eastern Central Florida Coastal 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 graphic 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 9 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.

I probably happened into the wedding industry a little bit accidentally. Like 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, boot camps, workshops all of the time meeting the people in the industry. This is what I do.

I happened to meet a group of wedding photographers and got taken under their wing. I found out that I really love it. I jumped off the deep end into the wedding photography industry.

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. 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 see some trade show activity.

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.

I am ready to shoot you. 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.

Niching into

different participation in photography.

"Coastal Lifestyle and Commercial Photography for the travel, hospitality, and wedding industries — with a photojournalist's instinct for real moments."

I love wedding photography and commercial photography too.

As a photojournalist I would ultimately like being a lifestyle and experience photographer for people in celebratory life moments with a photojournalist's eye for authenticity to concentrate more on commercial photography within the wedding industry and tandem to everything related to the wedding industry, shooting vacation portrait sessions, honeymoon, sporting & recreation, locations, landscapes, events, entertainment.

I'm aiming for my

Core Market to be The Wedding-Adjacent Ecosystem

Instead of shooting the chaotic 10-hour wedding day,

I want to plug into the entire world around it:

I'm not interested in shooting big weddings on my own. I only want the small ones, at resorts, and the beach ,emotionally intimate — perfect for a photojournalist's eye. Massively growing in popularity. It's not settling, if you have a small wedding. You're positioning into a trend.
Engagement sessions — travel-styled, location-driven
Honeymoon portraits — couples on location, adventurous, editorial
Elopements & micro-weddings — my sweet spot, photojournalistic and intimate
Bridal brand shoots — for dress designers, florists, planners, venues
Wedding venue photography — commercial, used for marketing
Wedding vendor content — caterers, jewelers, hotels, travel companies
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.

This is commercial photography

that lives inside the wedding industry.

I started my own FB group that focuses on everything related to weddings, especially including tourism, travel, restaurants, vacations, destinations, coastal beauty, luxuries, recreation, popular destinations for weddings, vacations, staycations, dates, daytrips, weekenders, special events, beloved occasions.

Life Experience.

Able to shoot in many environments.

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, graphic design, 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.

Sales, advertising, marketing & graphic design experience working with beauty industry professionals ,executives , buyers ,designers ,boutiques , vendors.

Food preparation & coordination ,management of hotel-motel ,restaurant management , 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.

Familiarity dealing with automotive industry, car shows , dealers , collectors, car sales, mechanics, towing, procurement, rentals, vendors.

Expertise in procurement, for a large portion of my life. I love helping people to shop and find things.

Proficiency in operations, procurement, purchasing, brokering, trading, traffic, shipping, containerizing, warehousing , management .

Competence 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.

Despite the daily chores and responsibilities of any job, my focus has always been that of a benevolent and altruistic woman.

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 little bit of a celebrity following, just from 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.

Photo Printing experience. Experience running a photo printing lab.

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.

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.

This

is how my focus became photojournalism.

This is how my background makes me uniquely qualified.

Age & experience give me really coherent vision and it actually hangs together better than it might seem at first.

I am able to draw completely valid and smart boundaries

And honestly, it makes my business better, not smaller.

Most commercial photographers are technically strong but pose-heavy.

I bring:

Candid, real moments in commercial contexts
Strong instincts for light and timing without controlling every frame
Storytelling — which is what brands actually want

That's genuinely rare in commercial work and worth hiring me.

My new goals for my Business Model include

not only booking individual clients ,but thinking about the beauty of

landscapes, coastal lifestyle imagery for travel, hospitality brands.

Commercial photography of wedding venues, resorts, vendors who need ongoing content.

Destination portrait sessions , vacation, honeymoon, elopement, recreation, sporting.

Editorial photography,custom shoots on location,

travel and lifestyle, celebration and luxury experiences.

Essentially building a boutique content studio with a camera, focused on a world where people are celebrating, traveling, and spending ,capturing the feeling of spending and enjoyment, creating high-value assets for brands or individuals.

Being a premium storyteller rather than just a photographer.

It's not just photography, it's aspiration, identity & authenticity.

Travel brands need authentic, non-stock-looking imagery
Real estate agents selling waterfront properties need aspirational shots
Hotels & resorts need lifestyle content that converts browsers to bookers
Tourism boards need images that tell a regional story
Custom Shoots on Location
The Geographic Sweet Spot
I am perfectly positioned as a destination photographer for a corridor that includes:
Sebastian / Vero Beach (home base)
Melbourne / Space Coast (30 min north)
Stuart / Hutchinson Island (30 min south)
Orlando (2 hours — destination wedding couples flying in)
Couples and families flying into Orlando for a Disney trip often extend to the coast — that's a vacation portrait opportunity for sure.
This is a beautiful, sustainable workflow for someone who wants quality over volume.
The Physical Reality works In my favor. My photojournalism instincts mean I'm not running around repositioning 200 guests or hauling massive lighting rigs. I'm reading moments, working with available light and small groups.
That's a 64-year-old photographer's ideal day — and it produces better, more authentic images than the overproduced big wedding circus anyway. I've essentially designed my ideal photography focus for this season of life. Sustainable, creative, profitable, and on my terms. I have an honest competitive advantage at 64, as a photojournalist, I bring something a 25-year-old simply cannot:
Life experience — couples feel it, trust it, relax around it.
Calm under pressure — I've seen real chaos, a small wedding is nothing.
Storytelling instinct — I'm not just taking photos I'm documenting a moment.
Professionalism — I show up, deliver, and communicate like an adult.
I am sitting in the middle of a genuinely unique geography:
Indian River Lagoon — one of the most biodiverse estuaries in North America, stunning for landscape and wildlife
Sebastian Inlet — iconic for surfing, fishing, boating, watersports
Treasure Coast identity — less saturated than Miami/Palm Beach but drawing serious tourism
Space Coast proximity — Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center to the north
Vero Beach — affluent, arts-oriented market just minutes south
Pelican Island — first National Wildlife Refuge in the US, unique story
Quiet, unspoiled coastal character — exactly what over-produced South Florida imagery lacks
This is distinctive geography — not just another Florida beach town.

This beautiful coastal hub for venues, restaurants, and coastal fun had been a day trip for me on weekends for nine years before I moved here.

This is a popular destination for weddings, vacations, staycations, dates, daytrips, weekenders, special events, beloved occasions.
That says alot about the fact that you can find a lot to enjoy here near the beautiful Sebastian Inlet.
Just minutes away from Vero and Melbourne airports.
Personally I have been to 65 antique & thrift shops and there are many more.
The restaurants are diverse and spectacular everywhere here.
From simple & fast to expensive and particular, there is something for everyone.

Restaurants with great atmosphere and scenery are abundant.

We are coastal.

I speak from East cost experience.

That's why I'm here.

I have the privilege of living in this coastal community.

When I merely go to the Walmart & Dollar Store I take the scenic view road home and pass by the venues and Riverview park, the gorgeous Indian River Lagoon views then I cross the bridge across from the Sebastian Inlet Bridge and savor the ocean breezes.

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 serious injuries. Moving is hard to do.

A lot of R&R needed. During moving, I suffered a very serious left arm tendon rupture which took more than two years to repair with PT and it restored slowly over time. I did not have surgery.

I suffered a hernia like strain which endured a long time and turned out to be more, a critical internal esophageal syndrome with multiple symptoms which I am recovering from in 2026.

Recovery is frustrating since limiting strain is necessary but I want to workout and trying too often results in relapse of symptoms. It's a slow process.

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 2026 .

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.

Studio history.

Member of

The Saint Cloud

Chamber of Commerce 2017 2018