Best of SRQ 2026 — Sarasota, You Chose Me. I'm Still Processing.

We won.

I've been sitting with those two words since the Best of SRQ 2026 announcement dropped today April 1st, and I still don't think they've fully landed.

Best Photographer. In Sarasota. Voted by the community I've built my life around.

I keep saying "we" because that's the truth of it — this isn't mine alone. This belongs to every person who voted, every client who trusted me, every friend who shared a post, every family member who believed in this work long before anyone else did. You made this happen. I'm just the one holding the camera.

Fifteen years in business.

I celebrated 15 years in business earlier this year, quietly, the way I tend to mark the big things — with a deep breath, a little gratitude, and then right back to work. When you've spent that long building something you genuinely love, the milestones start to feel less like checkpoints and more like proof. Proof that the early mornings were worth it. That the hard sessions were worth it. That every time I invested back into the studio — the new backdrops, the lighting upgrades, the outdoor shower renovation, the pool that's almost ready — it was all building toward something.

I didn't know that something was this. But here we are.

What is Best of SRQ?

For anyone who isn't familiar, Best of SRQ is an annual community-voted awards program recognizing the best businesses, professionals, and creatives across the Sarasota region. It isn't judged by a panel or determined by revenue or follower count. It's decided by the people who live here, work here, and show up for this community every day.

That's what makes this one different. That's what makes this one mean something.

A look at the year that got us here

I've put together a small collage below — a handful of my favorite images from the past year. They don't represent every session or every story, but they represent the feeling. The energy in the room when someone steps in front of my camera and decides, maybe for the first time, to really be seen.

Every one of those images belongs to someone brave. Someone who showed up. I am endlessly grateful for each of them.

What comes next

This award isn't a finish line — it's fuel. There's so much more I want to build here in Sarasota, so many more people I want to photograph, so many more stories worth telling through a lens.

If you've been thinking about booking a session, this feels like a good moment to say: come in. The studio has never looked better, the work has never felt more intentional, and if Sarasota trusts me with this recognition, I want to honor it with every single session I shoot from here.

Thank you, Sarasota. Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart — thank you.

— Tutti