Bonnet Springs Park family session in Lakeland, Fl

This beautiful place just open a couple of days before we shoot this session . Bonnet Springs Park located in Lakeland, Fl has a very special mission, enrich our community through nature, culture , recreation and education. This Park serves to unify the city’s spaces diverse population, offering public spaces that serve the needs of many by providing engaging and diverse opportunities in education and recreation to residents and visitors.

When Tricia told me about this place months ago, we were super excited to come here and have the chance to shoot a family session. Specially for the month of November. When we arrived we got surprised by the beautify of this place. Tricia and her family were there already enjoying a gorgeous day in Florida.

To be honest we could spent hours in this park walking to have photos… every single spot is beautiful. The park looks green and clean, we love the big trees and the walk paths … it has so many great spots to sit and enjoy the sunset. the bridges built with wood make this place PERFECT!! My favorite spot of all (as much as we can walk through and see) was the tree house!!

A gorgeous and BIG tree house with AC , YES you read correctly it has AC!!! Picnic tables and games to enjoy with the family!!!

I am adding here the website and the exact location if you want to enjoy a nice family day here :)

BONNET SPRINGS PARK

https://bonnetspringspark.com/about/plan-your-visit/

Bonnet Springs Park

400 Bonnet Springs Boulevard, Lakeland, FL 33815

Gates Open at 6am
Park Closes at Dusk

Coffee Shop in the Welcome Center: 8am - 5pm

The Depot Cafe: 10:30am - 6pm
Rooftop Garden Bar: 11am - 6pm

Holiday Hours:
Thanksgiving: Normal Hours
Christmas Eve: 6am - 5pm
Christmas Day: 12pm - 6pm

Hyde park family session, South Tampa photographer

Crystal and James are my clients for more than four years now… they are always a pleasure to work with. Their family is sweet and adorable. I love how the girls are growing and looking gorgeous every time we met for sessions. Even if they sometimes dont want to take pics, we always have fun and had amazing portraits of them.

This time the locations was Hyde Park Village in Tampa, we had a session here before when Hannah was a baby girl. But today we are sharing a session in this same place with two little girls rocking their session with fun dances, smiles and ICE CREAM!! YEAH !! They had an ice cream at the end of the session in ODD FELLOWS ice cream shop .

Ok lets talk about their outfits. This time they showed with blue hues and some light pink touches. I LOVE IT!! It’s so beautiful and perfect for a portrait session; Crystal has an idea of hanging some big frames at their home, so they went with a neutral color… but they are using also those images for their Christmas cards.

When your have the chance to do a family session I would recommend to think about the colors and style … even if you are shooting a session during Christmas time, think about the future or the propose to the images. Sometimes my clients dont do more than one session every year, so they have to go with colors that can use every year in their frames… and may be they add some things or props of Christmas to “add that Christmas feeling” .

What do you think>? Do you do the same think as Crystal and James, or do you shoot more than one session every year?

Hyde Park Village is a beautiful place where you can actually get different views. … and also you can get spots like this fountain with kind of a “private “ feeling. Also now they have a telephone cabins similar of those you can find in London!!! I LOVE IT!! Make it more interesting. Check now the last part of the session.

New Tampa Nature Park, Family session. Tampa family photographer

This park is actually a very good one, no many people know about it and we love this about it. We love to share this locations with our clients, since is a very quite and lovely park.

This family came to have a smash cake session, but first we did a family session and so I decided to do two different posts about it. New Tampa Natura Park has a very nice parking lot, if you walk through the park you will find beautiful spots around. but we stood closer to the location of the cake smash spot because also was a little bit hot and humid for the baby girl.

Check these images , we took before starting the messy and adorable part with Rihanna and her parents :)

Stay tuned for the second part that is actually the smash cake!! The messy and adorable moments where Rihanna had a cake in front of her and had a great time smashing it !

If you need to know more about this location, Im sharing the exact pin address here with you. Take a look and scout the place if you think this could be your next location for a family or any other portrait session:

NEW TAMPA NATURE PARK:

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tFP1zc0MjPMrTQrKjZgtFIxqLCwSDZKMrc0SzEyTDUxNE2zMqgwMjI2TU5JSTayNDMyMkzxEs1LLVcoScwtSFTISywpLUpVKEgsygYAEkcWRg&q=new+tampa+nature+park&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS881US881&oq=New+Tampa+Nature&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j46i175i199i512j0i512l2j0i22i30.5073j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#

Davis Island Family session, Tampa family photographer

Ana works with me as an associate photographer, we try always to do our family sessions. Ana is from Mexico too, so we share more than just the passion for photography.

Talking about the location, we thought about Davis Island because is a gorgeous place to have a beach view , without driving all the way to St.Pete. But also because in this spot , we can have some sunset photos (we did some portraits here before). But this day was cloudy and super humid LOL so we have to work with that LOL and actually have fun !

Check her images and let me know which one is your favorite.

We are so happy with the results, even with a day so cloudy we got amazing images of both families. Thanks Ana for letting me take your family pictures this year.

More family sessions in Tampa area coming soon.