St Petersburg Museum of History benefit at Ovation

Last night was my birthday, and although I don't usually like to work we had the pleasure of doing event photography at the museum of history's benefit at Ovation in downtown St. Petersburg which just opened. The benefit was on the 4th floor event space by the pool, fountain and amazing St. Petersburg skyline- an absolutely amazing place to have an event. The event was a lot of fun, with great food from 400 Beach and Savannah's Cafe and great music, and of course we did a photo booth which as always was a great deal of fun. Museum Board President Connie Kone even wished me a happy birthday during the special thanks announcements- too sweet! Here are just some of the event photos:

16th Annual Fish Head Ball: Fanta-Sea Fish Fest

This past weekend we did event photography for the Pier Aquarium's Annual Fish Head Ball which has a fantasy fest theme so it was quite spectacular. There was an auction along with body painting and sampling of delicious food from local restaurants. The painted models made the action a whole lot more interesting and everyone had a great time on the dance floor in their costumes.

3rd Annual Charity Classic Event

Last night was the 3rd Annual Charity Classic at the Centre Club in Tampa, which we donated event photography services as well as a photography package for their auction. The event benefits 3 charities; The Muscular Dystrophy Association, ClubCorp’s Employee Partners Care Foundation and The Children's Cancer Center. The event was a great deal of fun and had amazing food as there was an Iron Chef competition- with the prepared dishes being served. There were 2 rounds and the secret ingredients were wahoo and gator. I can;t believe how amazing the gator dishes were too.







Here is our group shot of all the Chefs that participated, fun group.






We also did a photo booth at this event which everyone had a lot of fun with.

Gasparilla Film Fest Party and Art Auction

This weekend we attended a benefit and art auction for the Gasparilla International Film Festival at the Ritz Ybor. We try to support GIFF as much as we can as Evan has screened there and was a sponsor last year. The art auction was very cool and I got the chance to meet some awesome vendors including Natalie from Chic Sweets who had an awesome candy buffett and we auctioned off a photography package. The other reason this was such an awesome night was because we did our first photo booth with the benefit attendees and it ended up being an even bigger hit than we imagined. I'll post photo booth pictures soon, but for now here are some of the amazing details that Elan Event Studio and the vendors put together.