Family Session at Fantasy Villa Discovery Bay, Jamaica
On the Lawn at Fantasy Villa
The family gathers on the open lawn at Fantasy Villa in Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Three generations stand together in soft pink and white, tall royal palms and layered green hills rising behind them. Everyone is barefoot on the grass under a soft overcast sky, the kind of light I look for on every Fantasy Villa family session.
A father and mother stand with their two children in matching pink and white, the Fantasy Villa gardens and distant mountains framing the group behind them.
Mother and Daughters
Three women in coordinated pink stand close together on the Fantasy Villa lawn. A mother shares an easy laugh with her daughters, the garden greenery blurred behind them.
Three generations, one villa lawn, and a family that still likes to stand close together.
Down at Bengal Beach
The family moves down to Bengal Beach in Discovery Bay as the light softens toward evening. The women line up along the shore in pink and white, calm turquoise water and a quiet Bengal Beach horizon behind them. A young girl stands among them, holding her grandmother's hand.
The men gather at the water's edge on Bengal Beach, one holding a small boy, their footprints carrying down toward the shoreline behind them. A father lifts his young son high above the sand near the water, both of them laughing, while his daughter waits close by.
A brother and sister pause along the sandy Bengal Beach path back from the water, her arm resting on his shoulder, both smiling in the late afternoon light with green trees framing the shoreline behind them.
The Whole Family Together
The full family walks together along Bengal Beach, hand in hand, children leading the way at the front of the line. Coordinated pink and white move together across the sand, the Bengal Beach treeline and calm water behind them.
A mother holds up her phone for a quick selfie with her husband and two children close beside her at Bengal Beach, all four laughing at the screen with the ocean stretched out behind them. Later, a young boy leans in to kiss his mother on the cheek as she smiles toward the camera, the sand and trees of Bengal Beach soft behind them.
Sessions like this one come together easily on Jamaica's north coast, whether at a private villa like Fantasy Villa in Discovery Bay, along Bengal Beach, or at resort properties such as Half Moon, Round Hill, Tryall Club, Rockhouse, Rose Hall, and Pimento Hill House. As a family photographer in Jamaica, I build each Fantasy Villa or Bengal Beach session around the group's own rhythm, from quiet portraits on the lawn to a barefoot walk along the shore.
