Most photographers shoot from the shore.

I don't.

I'm the one wading in up to my waist with my camera above my head while your kids are crashing waves around me and your husband is laughing at the situation and you're getting the most genuine reaction shot of him you've ever seen. That's the moment. That's why I go in.

In-water sessions are not a special add-on or an upgrade. They're just how I shoot when the water is where your family wants to be which, on 30A, is almost always. The emerald Gulf is the whole reason you came here. Why would we shoot around it?

What happens when I get in the water with your family is different from anything you'd get from the shoreline. The perspective changes completely. The waves become part of the composition instead of the background. Your kids stop performing for the camera because suddenly we're all just in the ocean together and nobody is thinking about the photos anymore. That's when I get the ones that don't look like anyone else's beach photos.

I've photographed families from waist-deep in the surf, underwater in the crystal clear Gulf, from inside breaking waves, and from every angle the water allows. I've ruined a pair of shoes or two. It was always worth it.

These are the photos people print the largest. The ones that stop guests in their tracks when they walk into your house. The ones where someone always says — wait, how did she get that shot?

That's the one I'm always chasing.

→ INQUIRE ABOUT AN IN-WATER SESSION