Wedding Photography | Miami & Fort Lauderdale | Daniel Lateulade

Seth and Amy are amazing people, and great friends to Stephanie and I. We met at church a few months ago, and we (and their two giant boxer puppies) instantly hit it off. Seth and I share the same sense of humor, which has given our wives plenty of opportunity to bond over eye rolling

They won a portrait session with me at CityChurch’s auction to benefit a missions trip to Haiti, and wanted to be able to be able to share their photos on their annual family camping trip in the Smoky Mountains two weeks ago.

Seth (who’s also a photographer) and I found a really amazing park in downtown Hollywood while out with our cameras a few weeks ago, and he was really excited to have their photos taken there. Naturally, with the universe conspiring against us, we got there and it was closed! We made the best of it though, and stopped at a small cafe downtown before heading over to ArtsPark at Young Circle, where we learned that although splashing your significant other with fountain water is cute in Hugh Grant movies, it just makes you cold and wet in real life. 

Seth and Amy, you two are AWESOME!

When people ask me to be in their photos, I usually tell them that I became a photographer so that I could hang out on the other side of the camera. Pictures of me rarely go well. I do the awkward smiles. I don’t know where to put my hands. I find myself in poses that I didn’t realize the human body was capable of.

In what felt like an out of body experience, I asked (voluntarily, even!) my all-around awesome photographer friend Catalina Ayubi to shoot a few portraits of me for my website at the Deering Estate in Miami. And she flat out nailed it. 

The end.

I shot down south last week to photograph the Sanchez family at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami. It’s a great place to shoot or just hang out, and there are a lot of other great places nearby to photograph, like The Deering Estate (where my wife and I looked into getting married) and The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. I had an awesome time, and their son taught me a variety of dinosaur noises, so I chalk it up to a win.

The Hunters are probably the coolest people you’ll ever meet. Rick’s our pastor over at CityChurch and married my wife and I, which automatically gives him some pretty solid credentials in my book. Also, he’s something of a psuedo-tabloid darling. As if that weren’t enough, he and Dede own the coolest coffee shops in Fort Lauderdale. It’s a logical progression to assume their three children have some sort of superpowers or something equally astounding.

The Hunters really believe in loving Fort Lauderdale as Jesus would have us do, and so choosing our photo locations was a no-brainer. We started off on top of the library parking garage where our church gets together to pray on Tuesday mornings, and headed on down to Riverwalk afterwards. When people realized what was going on, they began swarming us in helicopters just to be associated with the dangerous amounts of radness we were giving off.