OMG! Real Life Mermaids!
Kids love to dress up and pretend!
Now they have an opportunity to be a mermaid or merman and have their portrait taken UNDERWATER with a real Mermaid! Your son or daughter will love showing off underwater.
If you are a military family, Scott Audette Underwater applies a 15% discount. Let us know when you book.
Our Mini Mermaid Sessions take place on select Saturdays throughout the year. Let us know if there is a date you have in mind.
All ages are welcome, from preschooler to teen!
Your mini-session:
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Is an unforgettable experience your entire family will enjoy!
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Provides a unique opportunity to interact individually with a professional mermaid.
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Results in 2 to 3 edited, downloadable images within two weeks of the session.
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Gives your child access to our cool mermaid props and photo props.
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Features one child and one professional mermaid.
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Takes place in our North Lakeland pool, kept at 90 degrees year round.
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Lasts at least 15 minutes.
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Each session is $295
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Payments can be made in two or three installments!
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Other important things to know:
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Photographer Scott Audette is a certified PADI rescue diver.
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Your child should be confident in and under the water. We recommend that your child know how to swim.
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Our pool’s shallow end is 3 feet.
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Parents do not need to come into the pool, but you are welcome to do what makes you most comfortable.
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A photo assistant is present at every shoot to help with lighting, costumes and other amenities.
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Please have your child bring or wear either a bathing suit or whatever outfit they plan to wear in the water as well as a dry change of clothes. If you have your own mermaid fin and tail, by all means, bring it with you! We do not provide tails and fins, but we have a variety of mermaid-related accessories and props. A bathroom is accessible right from the pool area.
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We shoot rain or shine because, well, mermaids live in the water! The exceptions are when lightning is within a 30-mile radius of our pool studio and if outdoor temperatures are expected to be in the 60s or below. In those situations, we will reschedule your shoot.
Howdy, I'm Scott!
Scott Audette is a world-renowned photographer and photojournalist who turned his talent and passion into an underwater portrait business, Scott Audette Underwater.
Team photographer for the Tampa Bay Lightning for 22 seasons, Scott is feted as a veteran photographer and photojournalist. Scott was fortunate to document the Lightning’s climb to Stanley Cup champions in 2004 and 2021. His unprecedented behind-the-scenes photos of players in 2004 were turned into a one-person show at the Tampa Museum of Art. His 2004 photos also illustrate the pages of “Tampa Bay Lightning: Winning Ways - The Making of a Championship Heart” (Yorkville Press). Scott also served as the house photographer for the Amalie Arena and Yuengling Center.
Scott has been a contracted photojournalist for wire agencies for more than 30 years, serving both
The Associated Press and Reuters. He enjoys documenting travel and lifestyle, most recently for Visit Florida and Viva Polk magazine. His underwater portraiture most recently was on exhibit at ART/ifact gallery as "A Siren's Peril," and Scott was invited to perform live underwater photo shoots during Platform Art's Artful Bowl.
Scott makes his home in Lakeland with his wife, two sons and menagerie of animals.
Ahoy, I'm Mermaid Coral
Coral Dover is a professional mermaid and model, both in and out of water.
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Her favorite areas to swim are in Florida's springs. Coral is CPR/Lifeguard certified with military lifesaver experience. She is working toward her PADI freedive certification.
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Her modeling experience include more than 30 photo shoots. With two daughters of her own, Coral knows the lure that mermaids have with children. She and her husband live on MacDill Airforce Base in Tampa.
