The 2023 fall and holiday mini-sessions are now available for booking with Hamilton Creek Photography. These have typically filled up quickly and are first come-first served. Locations all over Tampa Bay, with specific dates, times and locations on both weekends and weekdays, we hope to see you and your family for a fun, quick, and stress free mini-session this year! If you don’t see a date or location that works, reach out for a full session pricing guide and don’t delay, weekend dates will book up!

Oh my lanta, what a sweet baby this little guy was! We met one hot and sticky morning last month at Picnic Island Park. With a seven month old and two pups, you bet we had to try to beat the heat and long summer nights. Thankfully, these guys were willing to get to Picnic Island Beach and Park early on a weekend to beat the heat and the crowds.

You guessed it, another vacation family photo session on Indian Shores Beach. I absolutely love that I get to meet so many new faces during their time vacationing in Florida. Especially while they are having fun at the beach! It really doesn’t get better for me while working! Indian Shores and Indian Rocks Beach both have been the “must visit beach” for many families this summer. The beach may be busy while we are together, but when you are vacationing you don’t really want all the beach goers in your photos. Thankfully I have a lot of experience with photographing families even on the busiest weeks on the beach, like the Fourth of July, or Memorial Day Weekend. Being able to pose you and direct you without you really feeling like I am telling you how to be together means I spend a lot less time editing people out of your photos as well.

Summer vacation family photo sessions are in full swing here in Tampa Bay! I feel like I am at Indian Rocks Beach at least twice a week for family vacation beach pictures. Honestly, it feels incredibly lucky to be paid not only doing what I love photographing families, but also being paid to go to the beach. This family was just too fun to document while they were here on vacation at Indian Rocks Beach. They have made many summer family memories visiting our awesome Tampa Bay area beaches from the Midwest and I am so glad they found me to help document their family time at the beach together.

Is a film photo session right for your family photos? Only you can answer that, but here are a few reasons why film may be right for you and a few photo samples of how film and digital photos can work together in a hybrid newborn photo session or your next Tampa family photo session with Hamilton Creek Photography.

Tampa family photographer, specializing in motherhood moments, this special photo session at Hillsborough River State Park with a fellow photographer filled my soul with sunshine, even when we were dodging rain…they brough their own sunshine for sure. Check out what a cloudy day in the park with 35mm film and what I hope are stunning black and white images full of love to hit you in the feels.

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.” – Helen Keller. This sunshiney senior is about to graduate, but first we documented her Tampa senior pictures in Winthrop Town Center. The perfect spot for unique urban backdrops and flowers and greenery to give us a lot of variety in a small space. If you are looking for senior pictures in Tampa Bay next year, now is the time to start reaching out to plan for your senior’s portraits for the class of 2024.

This session right here just goes to to show you that fancy dresses, extra costly outfits that match perfectly are not neccessary to get great family photos. If your family is a jeans and t-shirt kind of family, of course that is cool in my book. I won’t make you wear anything you don’t love. I don’t make you pick from a client closet of fancy dresses. No, you can be yourselves. Of course I am here for some guidance but generally there is something in your closet that can work. You don’t all have to match. But rather coordinate is better. However, being authentically you and documenting that in lovely photos is always my goal. No matter what your wardrobe is.

Senior style! Check out this stunning and smart young woman’s senior session we did at Winthrop Town Center, Riverview, fo her senior pictures. The whole family was included and that makes my mama and photographer heart so happy!

As a Riverview newborn photographer, taking the stress out of family photos. This is even more particularly true for newborn photos with a toddler sibling. Here is a blog post with a few tips to get that stress free photo vibe. Plus, who doesn’t love a good outdoor newborn session set amongst the flowers?

Looking for senior pictures in Tampa Bay? Love a good urban backdrop? Here are a few of my favorite Tampa senior photo locations for urban photo sessions.

A good moody sky to go with this Treasure Island family vacation beach pictures. It isn’t all sunshine in the sunshine state and sometimes when you are on vacation you just have to go with it. These timeless family beach photos will stand the test of time.