3five Photography

Ashley & Winfield @ The Lido Beach Resort

2011-06-21T14:00:00.000-07:00

Ashley and Winfield got married at the beautiful Lido Beach Resort here in sunny Sarasota Florida and I was glad to be on hand to shoot (not literally) this couple, they were so relaxed and easy to work with. They ceremony was held at the Lido Beach Resort on Lido Beach and the weather couldn't have been better.

About Lido Beach Resort ( I pulled it from there site):

Featuring 6,000 square feet of flexible event space, The Lido Beach Resort has become known as one of the premier settings for beach weddings. Our resort specializes in Lido Beach wedding receptions ranging from 10 to 300 guests. A warm reception awaits you and your wedding guests at The Lido Beach Resort. To complement our extensive facilities, The Lido Beach Resort offers a variety of services and special features, including:

A professional and caring catering staff
Onsite catering for all occasions
Two pools
Fitness facility
World-class golf nearby on premium courses
223 guestrooms and suites

Defined by casual elegance, The Lido Beach Resort provides a spectacular setting for Lido Beach weddings and celebrations. To request more information or reserve space for your wedding reception or formal event.

Our Wedding Assistant can be reached at (866) 277-2685

Here is a link to there site http://www.lidobeachresort.com/weddings.html

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married give me a buzz @ 941-302-8080 or pass along a link to the blog or the website.

Best to all,

Steve

David and Ruby at the park

2011-02-17T17:11:00.000-08:00

I love to take my kids to the park and today was a wonderful day! The weather was perfect and my little uns had a blast.

We went to Colonial Oaks Park where they have a great jungle gym and best of all it's shaded.

Here is a little more info on the park direct from the county site:

Colonial Oaks Park
5300 Colonial Oaks Blvd., Sarasota

Colonial Oaks Park is a many faceted 23 acre park, a blend of impressive natural features and efficient building structures. The property is divided by Phillippi Creek which offers a beautiful area to reflect on life as the sun dapples through the ancient oak trees, while the ponds afford a tranquil respite. Large grassy fields adjacent to the picnic shelters accompany the magnificent oak trees shading the playground area, inviting patrons to enjoy picnics, sports and games with family and friends. The south side of the park is a great place to walk and enjoy open space and a Phillippi Creek vista. Three indoor rooms and a half court gymnasium allow for classes and recreation programs. Ongoing programming includes dance classes, table tennis, exercise classes, tennis classes and several infant and pre-school activities.

Check it out sometime!

Best to all...

Steve

www.3fivephoto.com

2011-02-01T04:53:00.000-08:00

Carroll and Andre came all the way from Buffalo to get married on Bradenton Beach, Here's a little about the place taken directly from the Cities website:Bradenton Beach is a charming and vibrant community of 1,500 located at the southern end of Anna Maria Island. The Island is located at the southern entrance to Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. We share the island with our sister cities of Holmes Beach and Anna Maria City.

So there you have it... Enjoy!

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married give me a buzz @ 941-302-8080 or pass along a link to the blog or the website.

Best to all,

Steve

Kendyl's 1st birthday.

2010-08-07T20:46:00.000-07:00

Cake is good!

enjoy...

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married give me a buzz @ 941-302-8080 or pass along a link to the blog or the website.

Best to all,

Steve

Kevin & Tara Reception

2010-08-02T18:29:00.000-07:00

These are the last group of pictures from Kevin and Tara's wedding.

Enjoy...

Mother daughter dance

I have no idea either, but I like his style!

Kissy face

The warning

Night fever, night fever (think Bee Gees)

Awww

Awww again.

Catch

Caught

End of the night.

Off they go!

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married give me a buzz or pass along a link to the blog.

Best to all,

Steve

More Kevin and Tara

2010-07-19T04:40:00.000-07:00

A few more from Kevin and Tara's wedding.

Enjoy...

Bridesmaids looking at the guys.

Getting ready to walk down the aisle.

The exchange.

Cute couple.

Everybody.

The crew!

Jummping for joy...the pictures are done!!

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married give me a buzz or pass along a link to the blog.

Best to all,

Steve

Kevin & Tara Details

2010-07-16T20:22:00.000-07:00

A few detail shots from a recent wedding.

Enjoy...

Hot day... jackets off at every opportunity.

First time in print.

Thank you too.

Annapolis ring.

Roses and rings.

One of my favorite pictures ever!

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married give me a buzz or pass along a link to the blog.

Best to all,

Steve

Evelyn & Craig

2010-06-28T19:24:00.001-07:00

Just a picture I really like.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Cathrine and Evan

2010-05-31T19:26:00.001-07:00

Cathy and Evan got married recently, here are a few of my favs.

Enjoy...

Tick tock

Mom... gosh!

If you or anyone you know plan on getting married please feel free to give me a call or pass my info on to your friend.

Best to all,

Steve

Sam

2010-03-26T19:27:00.001-07:00

Just shot some senior pictures for Sam, have fun at FSU next year!

Enjoy...

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or anyone you know are getting married (or graduating and need senior pics) give me a buzz or pass along a link to the blog.

Best to all,

Steve

DD and Chunk

2010-03-05T18:25:00.001-08:00

My son David and his pal Chunk at the park today, shot this with the camera phone. B&W or Color?

Let me know...

Best to all...

Steve

Mike & Gris 3

2010-03-02T21:26:00.000-08:00

More shots from Naples, I tried to get it done with three posts but it looks like it's gonna be four there are just a ton of pictures I want to share.

Feel free to comment and let me know what you think (This means you Gris!)

Enjoy...

Please feel free to start following my blog to get regular updates, and if you or if you know anyone getting married give me a buzz or pass along a link to the blog.

Best to all,

Steve

Mike and Gris 2

2010-02-23T19:38:00.000-08:00

A few more from Naples.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Mike & Gris

2010-02-22T20:41:00.000-08:00

Just photographed a great wedding in Naples over the weekend, it was a blast! Here are some of my faves more to come soon.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Evelyn & Craig

2010-01-26T04:34:00.001-08:00

Great wedding last weekend here are some of my faves!

enjoy...

I you or anyone you know are getting married please feel free to give me a call @

941-302-8080

Best to all,

Steve

Camera phones are cool!!

2010-01-14T06:26:00.000-08:00

Quick snap of the kids yesterday with the Blackberry, kinda cool. Camera phones are getting better and better, I've even seen people shoot great video (hence CNN's video blogs). So just remember the next time you see something interesting whip out the phone and capture the moment!

Best to all,

Steve

The Dreamy Diana Lens

2010-01-10T07:52:00.001-08:00

My favorite Christmas present ever!! My wonderful wife got me this Digital Diana Len, knowing my love of Lomo Photography (Low Tech) it's a plastic fixed focal lens that takes really funky pictures. She got it at Photojojo.com here is a link if your interested http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/diana-lens-for-SLRs

Here are some of my faves so far.

enjoy...

Pax and Daddy

David and Mommy

Ditto

David @ the strawberry fields

Sign

Clouds

Best to all,

Steve

The O'Hara's

2010-01-06T19:33:00.000-08:00

Great family I had the pleasure to photography last weekend, here are some of my favs.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

DC

2009-10-15T18:56:00.001-07:00

Went to DC last Thursday to shoot an event for National Geographic, I had Friday to run around town here are the results.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Raindrops keep falling

2009-10-03T10:54:00.000-07:00

It was raining the other day and I saw these drops, thought they were cool.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Sawyer

2009-09-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

I friend of ours needed an emergency babysitter the other day and got me, lucky!

of course photos ensued.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

2009-07-16T10:27:00.000-07:00

I found this old roll of film from my honeymoon, hope you like.

Enjoy...

Mexico

ship deck

that's our ship

Tug

Back home

Best to all,

Steve

Look Up

2009-07-12T19:28:00.000-07:00

I've always loved clouds, hope you do too.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

M&C sitting in a tree

2009-06-08T21:00:00.000-07:00

Had a great time photographing Christina and Michael's wedding, they are a great couple and were really easy to work with. Here are a few of my favorites.

Enjoy...

This kid is straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

Awwwww

Love the way there looking at each other.

Are we done yet?

Fun

Camera snap

Smoke em if you got em!

Best to all,

Steve

Milestone

2009-05-13T16:31:00.000-07:00

Wow just wow... I have reached a seemingly unreachable goal with my blog, yes friends after months of posting I HAVE DONE IT!!! I have my first follower my numero uno, someone who cares and is interested in my blog (and happens to be my sister) so thank you Canadacaty1 I will do my best to provide you, my one follower with the greatest photo content I can or at least some neat stuff every now and again.

Just a quick photo that I didn't take, but it's my favorite...

Yup it's my baby, we find out on Friday if it's a boy or girl!!

Best to all,

Steve

www.3fivephoto.com

Neat stuff

2009-05-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

I've been cruising the net lately for... well just for, and I've found some really cool photo sites. Something for everybody, here are the ones I liked the best enjoy...

The first is http://www.zoomalbum.com/ this is a great site for low cost photo albums easily assembled, so now you can put together an album for grandma in minutes.

The next is http://www.photojojo.com/ you can just tell that these guys love photography, they update regularly about anything and everything photography.

The last one is the personal site for Joey Lawrence http://www.joeyl.com/ (no not the "Whoa" kid from Blossom,for those of you who remember Blossom). This guy is an amazing photographer, he shot the Twilight movie posters and shoots for most of the big record labels and movie studios when he's not traveling the world shoot his own personal work. The really amazing thing is this guy just turned 18!!!

So if you get a chance check out these sites, I loved them.

On a completely irrelevant note here is a picture I took of my mum on Mother's day (ain't she cute)

Best to all,

Steve

www.3fivephoto.com

I'm sorry blog

2009-05-10T11:39:00.000-07:00

Dear blog,

Please understand it not you it's me, I've shamefully neglected you over the past few months and will resolve never to be so heartless again.

Please forgive me.

Here are some of my faves from the last wedding I shot.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Dutch at the beach

2009-02-22T16:59:00.000-08:00

Mike and LeeAnne held the baptism of their son Dutch (I know what a cool name) recently on Longboat Key beach. Dutch is a great kid and has the best facial expressions. Here are some of my favorites.

enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Love the Shadow

2009-02-11T08:51:00.001-08:00

I've always been drawn to shadows as a subject, there so random constantly changing here are some I took yesterday.

Enjoy...

As always feel free to let me know what you think.

Best to all,

Steve

Kids

2009-02-05T09:40:00.000-08:00

I've always found kids fun to photograph for the simple reason that they love to get there picture taken and have none of the hang-ups that plague adults. Here are some of my favorites from the past and present.

Enjoy...

Riley

I photographed these kids in 1991

I wish I could remember her name

Gavin

David

Best to all,

Steve

Playing with Photoshop

2009-01-18T17:36:00.000-08:00

I love photoshop, it can take an average picture and give it character and life. I don't as a matter of course use a lot of photoshoping in my work, but every now and again I find a picture I think can use the help (besides it's fun). This picture is one of my favorites, I just decided to see what it would look like in B&W. I absolutely love the burn tool, I burned out the back ground and blah blah blah... see for yourself.

Enjoy, and feel free to let me know what you think.

Best to all,

Steve

Saturday night's alright alright alright

2009-01-17T09:14:00.000-08:00

It's a chilly Saturday here in sunny Sarasota and I'm going through old weddings I've photographed, I stumbled across Scott and Keri's wedding pictures and thought I'd share them with you for the simple fact that there wedding was one of my favorites.

Enjoy...

Best to all,

Steve

Holga

2009-01-16T18:21:00.000-08:00

I'm a big fan of lomo photography, using cameras I find at garage sales or the goodwill but I especially love my Holga, for those of you who don't know the Holga is a crappy plastic camera with major flaws. The most obvious of these flaws are major light leaks but it also sprinkles in overlapping frames and major vignetting. Here are some pictures it took in Scotland last year.

For more information on Holga check out these links below, just copy and past them into your web browser enjoy...

http://www.lomography.com/holga/

http://www.argonauta.com/html/holga_modifications.htm

http://www.freestylephoto.biz/holga.php

http://www.apogeephoto.com/july2001/plastic_fantastic.shtml

Best to all,

Steve

Mexico

2009-01-14T16:57:00.001-08:00

I was recently in Mexico with the family and wow what a wonderful place, the people we're great the food was fantastic and we all had the best time. Below are pictures of a great restaurant named La Perlita were we had a great lunch (they served the best seafood I've ever had), and just below that are picture of Senor Sanchos beach were we spent a great day right next to the water. All and all it was a great family vacation, you should definitely check it out.

Me and the wife

Great seafood

Senor Sanchos

Beer 30

Best to all,

Steve

Joe & Sam

2009-01-13T16:38:00.000-08:00

Had a great day today, although it was a bit rainy. Anyway, I finished editing a shoot I did recently with a great couple Joe and Samantha here are some of the shots I like the best.

Best to all,

Steve

First

2009-01-12T20:12:00.000-08:00

Here it is the long awaited 1st blog post you've all been waiting for, who am I you ask?

Keep up with the blog and you'll find out (oh very mysterious) I know it couldn't be helped.

I thought I'd start with something easy... a quick photo I took today while photographing a hotel, I thought it was a cool shot... but feel free to disagree or not (please not I have a lonely fragile feeling).

Best to all,

Steve