Useppa Island Featured in Major Publications in 2014

So much to blog....so little time....

Well, January, generally slow, got off to a BANG!  At least, for us!

'Tis "the Season" here in SW Florida and we are advertising to best leverage the interest. We were immediately hit with Production Deadlines?!? All due the same date!  WOW!

We are doing full page ads in DuPont Registry, Soundings and Gulfshore Life plus DuPont Registry is using one of our listings for their "Featured Homes" on their home page.  www.dupontregistry.com/homes. 
(Go to the Featured Home box, upper right quadrant (they cycle fast) click quick on Useppa People Ad.)

Soundings also invited us to be their on-line  "Waterfront Home Feature" for "boat show" month. At  www.SoundingsOnLine.com month."  (Click the "Waterfront" tab, top right.)

Gulshore Life chose to feature Useppa Island as the perfect place to do their Spring Editorial Fashion shoot....8 pages!!  It took a crew of six and one model to pull it together.

               

  A couple in The Palm Garden.

....behind Jay's house 

                       ....On the Collier Preserve

Behind Albert's new house, on one of Irwin's Palms and our back deck for sunset.

And, what a great bunch of people.  We were unable to shoot the areas they had previously scouted so, we all scouted together...trekking through neighbor's back yards, phone in hand to ask permission whenever they found the perfect spot.  It was gusting to 35 knots at 40 degrees.  Brrrrr!! Between playing the wind, the sun and the temp, it was very interesting. That model made it look like 80-degree weather.

And, NO!!!  This is not the model.  Of course, every crew has it's comedian...this is "the Techie," Javier from Miami.  They were all independent contractors .  I could take pictures of everyone BUT the model - something to do with her Agency, how the photos are used, etc.

This is the afternoon break...still freezing.  Left to right...the tech guy, Gulfshore Life Fashion Editor, photographer from New York and Australia, hair and make-up expert and another tech assistant.  The fashion coordinator and assistant were in another room, with the model, coordinating, shoes, jewelry......underwear or NOT???

They were more than a little protective of both model and fashion pieces as Gulfshore Life is THE fashion opinion leader in SW Florida. So I could not shoot anything "definitive"....just the process.  I actually do have some photos of the model but am honor bound NOT to show them until after the publication is out. 

The whole process was absolutely amazing! Some had worked together, most had not. Yet, as a team, they worked like a well-oiled machine. 

A few had to get back, so Brian got to boat 'em back...in 38 degrees minus wind chill.  Those that stayed were super fun!!  A little dinner....a little wine....a few jokes....a few stories on each other and prior shoots....  A good group!  They were an experience, by themselves. 

And, rumor has it....they'll be back!!!

Useppa Island Featured on US Harbours

Travel writer and resident of Useppa Island, Gretchen Coyle, shares her perspective of the various lifestyles and activities found on Useppa, in this article from US Harbors.

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Useppa Island Lifestyles

Is it a harbor? A private island? A marina? What the heck does the name “Useppa” mean, and where is it located? For me and my husband, Useppa Island, Florida, is our home for six months of the year — and it has been for almost thirty-five years.

The island is private, but the definition of that sort of depends on who you know, your membership status, whose guest you might be, and what boating organizations you might be a part of that might have privileges.

Our home is a 1912 Collier Cottage, built by Barron Collier as bedrooms and baths while visitors ate meals in a large inn on the north end of the island. Over the years we have restored and added to the structure while keeping the mullioned windows and look of the old home.

Read the article Useppa Island-Life at a slower pace