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Sanibel Wedding – Casa Ybel Resort

December 15, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Sanibel Wedding

Timothy and Kelly had an intimate Sanibel wedding ceremony at Casa Ybel Resort. This is their second marriage, so they wanted to keep the focus on the two of them and their 5 children and very special guests. By all accounts the wedding was a big hit! We received this awesome message shortly after the wedding:

“I just wanted to leave you a quick message letting you know how wonderful and thorough Nick was for our wedding shoot! Not only did Tim and I love him, we got many compliments from the rest or our guests regarding his wonderful work! Thank you for all of your work, suggestions and great communication! I would definitely recommend this business to all!

Wow what a compliment! thanks guys

Intimate Weddings

Timothy and Kelly chose to go for a small wedding and intimate weddings are becoming more and more popular. I think many of our couples are looking to take the stress out of a huge wedding. Intimate weddings are a great way to go for destination brides. In the right situation, they check all the boxes: small, convenient, intimate and quite importantly, very cost effective:) You will often find that vendors and resorts will have special packaging and pricing for intimate weddings. There is normally a limit to how many people constitute the making of an intimate package. This number varies from vendor to vendor. For us it is twelve people but we are somewhat flexible depending on the day of the wedding. Vendors will also provide packages for intimate weddings. We can offer additional services like video, profesional audio and we also have an officiant on staff! Other vendors/resorts may bundle in things like bouquets or seating or maybe a bottle of champers or two. It’s worth checking.

Sanibel Wedding photography Casa Ybel Resort — Bride and Groom under a Banyan tree

Sanibel wedding Photography, Casa Ybel Gazebo — The ever popular Gazebo at Casa Ybel Resort

Sanibel Wedding Casa Ybel Events — The sandy walk:)

Sanibel Wedding photographer — Beach wedding at it’s finest!

Sanibel Wedding photographer Casa ybel — The Vows

Sanibel Wedding photographer blended family — Blending families symbolically with Sand

Sanibel Wedding pictures — Sanibel wedding

Sanibel Wedding photos blending a family on the beach Casa Ybel Resort — Golden hour

Sanibel Wedding photography sea oats Casa Ybel — By the sea oats

Sanibel Wedding The Groomsman Casa Ybel Resort — The Groomsmen

Sanibel Wedding, beach photographer, Casa ybel Resort — Happy!

Sanibel Wedding, beach photography, Casa ybel Resort — Back of the dress

Sanibel Wedding, beach wedding, Casa ybel Resort — A walk in paradise

Sanibel Wedding, beach photographer, Casa ybel Resort, hugs — Hugs!

Sanibel Wedding, beach photographer, Casa ybel Resort, The Thistle Lodge — The Thistle Lodge

Family Portraits, Island Info

Family Beach Portrait, Captiva Island

November 23, 2015 admin Leave a comment

The Roettger Family Beach Portrait, Captiva

I had the pleasure of taking the Roettger family beach portrait on Captiva Island. You can tell we had a great sunset:)

It’s funny but being that we are in the tropics, the weather is very changeable. In the summer months we have rain everyday, very short spells mainly but daily rain never the less. The weather forecast looks something like this: 90 degrees, sunshine from sunrise to 3 PM then showers in the pm. Now you could copy and paste that forecast for six months of the year. The challenging part for me as a photographer is that it can be raining cats and dogs at the studio and half a mile down the road it could be bright sunshine. How do I combat this? With the photogs best friend… webcams! I have a whole folder of links to webcams on my iphone that I use on a daily basis. The webcams don’t lie! Give it a try.

Back to the Roettger Family, we had a great shoot, everything turned out fantastic. They came to our viewing studio and selected their pictures and ordered a stunning fine art gallery wrap collection of five images. They have since been shipped out and delivered by our trusty partners, UPS. I then received an amazing letter that read as follows:

“I received my pictures yesterday and I LOVE THEM! I was very nervous spending so much money, but it certainly turned out to be the right choice.

Thanks you for your service, your talent, and your expertise . You made our night so much fun, but most importantly, you made memories and keepsakes we will treasure forever!”

Thank you Mrs Roettger and family for trusting us to be your photographers, it’s people like you that make this job so rewarding and fulfilling. Hopefully we will see you next year for your family beach portrait.

Family Beach Portrait, Captiva — Captiva Beach Portrait

Family Beach Portrait, Beach Family Portrait Captiva Sanibel — Captiva Family Portrait

Family Beach Portrait, Reunion Family Portrait — Family Reunion Captiva

Family Beach Portrait, Beach Family Portrait Captiva and Islands — Sunset Portrait Captiva

Commercial/Headshot, Octohawk

Drone Photography and Filming, Captiva island

November 19, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Drone Photography and a Captiva Beachfront House

We had our aerial drone photography platform out on Captiva Island for a recent real estate shoot (Octohawk.com). Drone photography a great way to show perspective of location. In these pictures you can see exactly the proximity of the house to the Gulf of Mexico, the back bay, Blind Pass and Turners Beach. Used in conjunction with your more usual land based images, aerial photography offers a compelling way to market a house sale. Not only that, its a fantastic way to see/show the beauty of the Sanibel and Captiva Islands:)

Now this is the backyard most people dream about.

Who wouldn’t want to wake up this view every morning?

This view shows the relationship of the houses location to the surrounding areas. Note the power lines on Captiva Drive. You can also see where the back bay meets the Gulf of Mexico under the bridge at Blind Pass. The houses at the top, left of the picture are on Sanibel, whilst everything in the foreground is Captiva.

This is a view of Turners Beach and in the distance the view towards Pine Island Sound (or the back bay). The Gulf of Mexico is in the foreground. At the horizon is the coast of Pine Island. It’s incredible to think that it would take approximately 1 hour 40 mins to drive to the southern most point of Pine Island from this location. You could try a boat at 30 minutes. Or you could try paramotoring at PlanetPPG on Pine Island (one of my favorite pastimes:). Flying a paramotor across the Sound would take you a couple of minutes (although your not allowed to land on the beach on Captiva so that would be tough:)

Island Info, Just for fun, Video

Sixty Seconds in Paradise

November 13, 2015 admin 2 Comments

I was out filming last night on Sanibel and Captiva Islands and I started to think about all of the people around the world that would like to be here right now. So I compiled this sixty second film (Sixty Seconds in Paradise) so that you can get your island fix:). Feel free to share. This was all shot over a three hour period. The young osprey are alongside the bridge at Blind Pass between Captiva and Sanibel and the roseate spoonbills were at The J.N ‘Ding’ Darling National Wildlife Refuge.

Commercial/Headshot, Just for fun, Video, Weddings

Slow Motion Video Booth!

October 22, 2015 admin Leave a comment

Slow Motion Video Booth

This weekend we used our slow motion video booth for a wedding at The Sanctuary Golf Club on Sanibel Island. It really is a blast. We have a backdrop set up with lots of props on tables. It literally took a couple of minutes after it opened for everyone to start joining in the fun. The hilarious part is

Slow motion video booth

when people get to see the slow motion video clips right there and then on the screen. You could hear nothing but roaring laughter coming from the booth. The ironic part is that the bride said she wasn’t really “the photo booth type” luckily she trusted our judgment and it was a huge hit. We have had a photo booth for the last several years and while it is fun, this is on another level. You could see people returning to the dance floor laughing and joking….it’s infectious.

The finished product will be like the example video below but much longer. We take all the clips, vary the speeds add some cool music and voila!

If you are wondering how much space you would need: The backdrop is 9′ wide so the booth would need to be approximately 10’x20′ although we can scale down the size of the booth if we need to. It just means you would not be able to get as many people in it.

Call us about pricing, we have discounts for clients that book multiple services with us.

Shelby and Brandon were the Bride and Groom in this wedding. Look out for an upcoming feature on the blog. We are going

to showcase everything from the photography to the wedding film to the finished slow motion video… coming soon!

Sanibel Wedding

Intimate Weddings

The Roettger Family Beach Portrait, Captiva

Drone Photography and a Captiva Beachfront House

Slow Motion Video Booth

Professional beach portrait and wedding photographer on Sanibel and surrounding SW Florida areas.