Jeanine McLeod: Capturing Childhood's Ephemeral Joy - A Photographic Journey from Engineering to Embracing the Clicks and Giggles of Life's Candid Moments

Has capturing the fleeting moments of childhood ever tickled your fancy? You'll be delighted by my guest, Jeanine McLeod of Cloud9 Studios, who joins me on a journey through the lens, snapping the pure joy and innocence of the little ones. We exchange tales of Wesley Chapel's transformation, the same soil that sprouted Jeanine's haven for family memories. You'll also get a sneak peek into the Good Neighbor Podcast's exciting expansion, blooming from local curiosity to national treasure.

Strap in for a candid chat about life's unexpected detours; after all, who hasn't considered a change of pace in the quest for balance? Jeanine shares how she traded the white-knuckle ride of wedding photography for a playground of giggles and whimsy. Meanwhile, I unwind the microphone cord and take a detour into my personal decompression tactics, striking chords at concerts and rooting for the underdogs in sports arenas. Tune in for a symphony of stories, from Jeanine's click to my cheers, where passions intersect with dreams, and the shutter of life captures its most candid shots.

Cloud 9 Studios, renowned for its distinctive approach to children and family photography, specializes in capturing the vibrant and spontaneous moments that define family life. With a particular focus on baby's first birthday portraits, themed childhood portraits, and milestones, the studio ensures a comprehensive service that invites families to create lasting relationships, making Cloud 9 Studios their photography studio for life. Led by Jeanine McLeod, who brings over two decades of professional photography experience, each session is carefully tailored to reflect the unique dynamics and personality of every child and family. From the colorful chaos of a First Birthday cake smash to the magic of a Wizarding Themed Session, and all the joyous celebrations for the Holidays, Jeanine's deep understanding of child behavior and expertise in photography and themed set design, not only make the sessions enjoyable but also produce portraits that become cherished family treasures.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Mike Sedita.

Speaker 2: 0:11

Hello out there. Welcome to episode 169 of the Good Neighbor Podcast. I'm your host, Mike Sedita, and today I am joined by Janine McLeod. She is the owner of Cloud9 Studios in Wesley Chapel. Janine, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3: 0:24

I'm doing great, Mike. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2: 0:27

So glad to have you on. I have seen your shop. I've been in there. I used to live in Seven Oaks so I was always kind of around in that area and I work with other businesses that are right in. I mean, that complex you're in is pretty big. There's all these little areas to kind of navigate through there. So I'm very familiar with your location and some of your work. If you're not familiar with my work, the Good Neighbor podcast was started in 2020 as a way for business owners to really just kind of fill people in in the community as to what they had going on while remaining socially distant, and over the last four years, the Good Neighbor podcast has evolved into a national brand. We have podcasts from Denver to Atlanta to Philadelphia, and I'm the person here in Tampa that gets to talk to business owners like you. So, with that said, tell us a little bit about Cloud9.

Speaker 3: 1:18

Yeah, thanks, mike. So Cloud9 Studios we are a children's photography studio and so when people ask what we photograph, I always jokingly say we photograph children and the adults that come along with them every now and then. So, while as a lot of photographers focus on family and adults and headshots and things like that, we really focus on the children and the babies in the family, so the smaller people.

Speaker 2: 1:41

So now will you do that other stuff, like if someone, like if a mom and dad bring their son or daughter in to do their shoot there and they say, hey, we're all dressed up, we want to get a family shot, or do you just say, no, you're too grown, you need to get out?

Speaker 3: 1:55

No, absolutely. We photograph families and I'm very passionate about the interactions and the memories that we create with our children. Uh, but we but we focus primarily on the child. So let's say, like we're photographing a first birthday session and mom and dad wanna be a part of that celebration too. We'll start with that and actually with babies and children. It's a great way for the child to get acclimated to the studio, to not think like mom and dad are just leaving them behind and then going out for lunch. So it really helps, honestly, to have mom and dad sit with the baby, take some portraits with the baby, interact, play with them and create that little special celebration as well of the memory. But then we move quickly on to the baby or the child in question. We'll do family portraits more in the holidays.

Speaker 2: 2:48

So what you're saying is very rarely do parents just drop their kid off at the door and say, janine, you take them, we're going to go to, we're going to go over to Noble Cross for an hour and we'll be back. They don't do that.

Speaker 3: 2:55

No, that doesn't happen. No, that never happens.

Speaker 2: 2:58

So I guess the next question I have is and I was curious about this when you're filming, you know, when you're taking pictures of babies, do you have a go-to toy, I mean, or does it vary by kid? Or is there a go-to toy that is like your lockdown fail safe, gets them focused, gets their attention and brings them back, or is there no such toy that exists?

Speaker 3: 3:19

So we always ask the parents ahead of time uh, as we're preparing for the session, what is it that will make your baby do exactly what you just said? Like no matter what this will make your baby smile. Is it a song? Is it a toy? Bring it along with you, because a lot of times their toys will make them smile or be happier. But, in all honestly, besides bubbles which are always like kids just love bubbles, if you ever do, you have kids, mike.

Speaker 2: 3:42

Yeah, but she's a little bit older. She's not just love bubbles If you ever do. You have kids, mike. Yeah, but she's a little bit older. She's not well, she's kind of into bubbles, just not not enamored with them anymore.

Speaker 3: 3:49

Well, like I mean, if you go to Disney or Busch Gardens or anything you know, when they have like the bubbles, the ones with the bubbles, I mean like kids are just obsessed with bubbles and so that has always worked for us. But honestly, my singing and it's ridiculous and I don't sing well, but apparently I sound like Miss Rachel and so when parents like we'll sing wheels on the bus and the kids love it, and I've been told by a few moms I sound like Miss Rachel, which kids love, so I'll start singing and it usually gets them to look and listen.

Speaker 2: 4:16

Okay. So unfortunately now, Chateen, you are going to have to do a verse of wheels on the bus. You cannot tell us you sing Wheels on the Bus. So let's break into a little. Wheels on the Bus Go.

Speaker 3: 4:31

Well, can you cry for me first, Mike?

Speaker 2: 4:35

Let's see how this goes.

Speaker 1: 4:37

We'll save this thing for later.

Speaker 2: 4:39

So I will tell you if there was a bubble with Taylor Swift inside of it, the 11-year-old would very much focus, but if it was a bubble by themselves, not so much. So tell me, so have you always like? This is a I don't want to say niche, but it is kind of a niche photography, because there is there's wedding photographers, there's real estate photographers, there's everybody that kind of does their thing. How do you get into this? Do you have small kids that you? This became your passion because of them? Or were you always just looking for kids to cry in studio?

Speaker 3: 5:14

Yeah, no, actually I started off as a wedding photographer back when I lived in Atlanta. Wedding photography is a need. You know people need weddings and so, as a photographer, when you're looking to photograph people, it's an easier place to start. There's wedding fairs, there's just a whole. There's already like this subculture set up to get into that. But I quickly grew tired of photographing weddings.

Speaker 2: 5:41

It is really hard to do weddings, because not only is it, it's like this life event yeah, I get that but you got bride zillas. I don't know what's worse. What's worse? Let me, I'll ask you a bride zilla or a three-year-old who just can't focus?

Speaker 3: 5:55

I would go with the bride zilla, I would say that's way worse. Yeah Well, a three-year-old has an excuse, right. But for me it was, honestly, it was the scheduling, and I didn't like having my life planned out a year ahead.

Speaker 2: 6:09

I missed family events.

Speaker 3: 6:10

I missed friends events.

Speaker 2: 6:11

I missed friends weddings, and you're always working on nights and week it's always weekends, yeah, so a couple questions. So where in Atlanta did you live and how long have you been in Tampa from Atlanta?

Speaker 3: 6:25

in Atlanta did you live and how long have you been in Tampa from Atlanta? So I lived up in Lawrenceville when I lived in Atlanta and I've been here now for 17, 18 years.

Speaker 2: 6:31

Lawrenceville. When's the last time you went back to Lawrenceville?

Speaker 3: 6:35

I was up in Marietta over the holidays.

Speaker 2: 6:37

So I mean like, listen, everybody complains. But I lived in Cumming and I had an ad agency in Alpharetta.

Speaker 3: 6:42

Oh, okay, yeah, the traffic just is terrible.

Speaker 2: 6:46

Lawrenceville was probably one of the worst, I mean just going out to Lawrenceville.

Speaker 2: 6:49

The sprawl that was out there was really bad, but I lived in coming and it was just becoming that bad as well. And a buddy of mine is a big photographer in Atlanta that he owns, you know, a photography studio. He does the same exact story. You know, he did weddings in the beginning and it was just kind of like it wears. It wore him down to the point where he just wanted to do other stuff. Now he just does. A lot of his stuff was graduation stuff. Like, the kids are a little bit older, it's their next step in life that type of thing.

Speaker 2: 7:19

So that's a that's a big part of it too. So you've been here 17 years. You've seen, have you always been in Wesley Chapel?

Speaker 3: 7:24

Yeah, we part of it too. So you've been here 17 years, you've seen have you always been in Wesley Chapel?

Speaker 2: 7:29

Yeah, we've always been right here, back when it was cow pastures, back when it was double ranch, back before it was changed. So what brings you, what gets?

Speaker 3: 7:36

you from Atlanta to Wesley Chapel. So I actually grew up sort of in Newport Ritchie for a little bit and then my parents had moved to Gainesville when I started high school. So I lived in Gainesville in high school and went to college there. So I've always been a Florida girl. But you know, typical kid, you grow up and I'm like I got to get out of here, I want to go see the big city and so my first job out of college I took a job in Atlanta and lived there for seven years. But then I just wanted to come home. My whole family lives here, my brothers and sisters live here, all my friends were here. So I just wanted to come back.

Speaker 2: 8:04

And your background in college. Was it like an entrepreneurial? I mean it was. It was a photographing football games. I mean, was it taking pictures of Tim Tebow on a knee? I mean, what was your? What were you? Was this kind of your concentration, or was this a passion that you had that you, you know, said I'm gonna go get a degree in X and now this is what I really love to do.

Speaker 3: 8:25

So I love the fact that you think I'm young enough to have been in college with Tim Tebow, so thank you for that. I got great hair right here.

Speaker 2: 8:31

I'm just trying to keep up. I wouldn't say Steve Spurrier, I'm not going to say that.

Speaker 3: 8:35

I think you're a Steve Spurrier graduate, so I was there with the 96 championship.

Speaker 3: 8:42

All right, that was my proud thing we were at the Sugar Bowl for that. But no, my degree was actually in engineering, believe it or not. So I have an engineering degree. Mechanical engineering. Photography was just always a hobby, but engineering is a, especially mechanical engineers. It's a really even mix between creativity and photography, technical right, and so I was always good in math and science, but also art as a kid, and so I went into engineering because I was good at math and science and most parents don't tell their kids to follow their love of art.

Speaker 2: 9:13

So the thing about mechanical engineering, if again, correct me if I'm wrong there's a component to it, that is, the technical side of knowing all the angles and the buildings and the and the, the structure type and all that stuff. But there's also a design component to it. Um, if you're doing like, are you, were you designing buildings or like cities?

Speaker 3: 9:33

so I was mechanical, not civil uh so mechanical engineers, it's more about parts that things that move, uh, so I. The reason why I went to atlanta is I went to go work for motorola, uh, and so I did plastic design.

Speaker 2: 9:45

What's Motorola? No, I'm just kidding, I know right.

Speaker 3: 9:47

Who knows what Motorola is that?

Speaker 2: 9:49

aged you more than Danny Warfel, I'll tell you that right now, did you have a BlackBerry? I mean, we all had BlackBerrys, so okay. So you worked for Motorola, you were doing this engineering and you, you just kind of were like this is boring as hell, and I mean it was boring as hell.

Speaker 3: 10:09

College was really interesting with engineering because you get to design a lot and it's very creative. It feeds that creativity. When I was working for Motorola in the beginning I loved it, I got to design, but then pretty soon you're just designing the same thing over and over again, just making it smaller and lighter, you know, and it's just like ugh. So I took up photography because we honestly we had to travel a lot. So I was over in Asia and Singapore and China and like all these different places and I was like I need, why am I not taking pictures of?

Speaker 3: 10:34

where I'm going, and so I got my first camera when I was an engineer and started taking, but of course, as an engineer you don't do anything half.

Speaker 2: 10:41

Yeah, this isn't for kids. You don't do anything that fast. You probably bought a four thousand dollar camera that has 16 batteries in it, that has the highest resolution possible, and read the book from beginning to end yeah.

Speaker 3: 10:55

so I learned everything about this class. This camera took all the classes before heading over to asia and I just fell in love with photography. Fell in love with it and I always knew my days were numbered at Motorola. Like my dad, my whole family ran businesses. They were all entrepreneurs, so I just thought my path was going to be like engineering, consulting or something one day.

Speaker 2: 11:17

A branch of that but kind of doing the entrepreneurial thing.

Speaker 3: 11:20

Yeah, so, but yeah, once I fell in love with photography and I like people like you know, so you, as you can imagine, maybe even just talking to me for a short while sitting in a cubicle behind a computer. All day was not really my thing.

Speaker 2: 11:34

Well, I'll tell you, jean, it's funny. So I spent 20 years in corporate like finance. I worked for insurance companies, I managed a call center, Um, I did all kinds of stuff. So like when I laugh about the engineering thing, about reading the book beginning to end, I worked in an office in Perimeter in Atlanta before the stock market crashed in 09 or around that time the real estate market with like six actuaries Like there's engineer and then there's actuary on the like nerd scale up there.

Speaker 2: 12:06

And that was the same type of mindset, like everything got dissected from inside and out from every angle because that is just the way their brain functioned. But I worked a corporate job 20 years. I just was good at what I did and I made a bunch of money. So it was like how do I leave? Like, how do I make that transition? What I love hearing about your story is I'm a big wuss, like I needed divine intervention of the real estate market crashing to be forced out of it into this marketing world that I live in, and I'm always in awe of people who are like I just love this, I am going to make the move and do this. How do you specifically transition? Are you? You know your days are numbered at Motorola and you're like I love this, I get a thrill doing this. How do you make that first, like that first side job? Like how does that first thing happen and how does it steamroll from there?

Speaker 3: 12:59

So for me, one of the courses that I took, the instructor was a wedding photographer, and so I started assisting him on weekends, and that's how I kind of started making that transition. I was still, I worked at Motorola during the week, I assisted him on weekends with the weddings, and then soon enough I ended up photographing weddings on my own on the weekends. And I did that for about three years while still working at Motorola. And then so I was doing, cause that was great. Right, your corporate job is during the week. Weddings were on the weekends. I never mind working all the time. I'm not a good relaxer, so it was, you know, I just it was great. And then I quickly realized that, like I didn't want to like more, the more I was loving photography, the less I liked being at the door.

Speaker 2: 13:45

Yeah, it's like torture. It's like being tortured. It was like torture, yeah, yeah, I mean. So now you have the studio there in Wesley Chapel. I'm assuming 95% of your stuff is done in studio. Do you occasionally go out and do outside stuff or not?

Speaker 3: 13:59

Yeah, we'll occasionally go out, like especially for larger families, like if we're going're gonna do family portraits sometimes it's just easier to go outside than to do them in the studio. Uh, occasionally I'll design a theme for our holiday sessions that involve going outdoors and on location. We've done like a scene up at covington farms and we've rented the farm for the day and set up to do portraits there of the kids. Uh, in general though, like I find children work better in the studio, we don't have to deal the studio, we don't have to deal with the elements, we don't have to deal with the heat, the rain. As you know, we're just preheating here in Florida right now.

Speaker 2: 14:34

The oven is set. It's just getting there. In another couple weeks it'll be up there yeah and it's just too hot.

Speaker 3: 14:39

The kids flush fast. They get cranky faster. I like control and I like control and I control as an engineer.

Speaker 2: 14:48

Janine, I really I don't picture that, that you like control. But all right, if you say so, I'll take your word for it. Um, so you, you said you know, when we were doing like a little pre-interview, that you know you were worried about a session ending. How many photographers do you have there that are actually doing sessions besides you?

Speaker 3: 15:06

I have another photographer, so I have one other. Right now there's two Yep, so there's two of us, and so Elizabeth photographs most of the first birthday sessions now, and so, yeah, they had a session going on and it was really loud and I was like, oh dear, I hope it ends.

Speaker 2: 15:28

Listen, I have a 62 pound English bulldog as we speak. You see him in the picture. They're laying on right by my foot, like right here, snoring so loud. The only reason you can't hear him is because I had to lay an area rug down or else it would vibrate the entire floor before I did that I would have people say to me is it raining where you are.

Speaker 1: 15:46

And I'm like no, no, it's nice.

Speaker 2: 15:47

I'm like, oh, we hear like a rumbling and it would be him snoring under the desk. So you know, I know what it's like and he doesn't cry, but you know he does. He can get temperamental and sometimes he probably should wear a diaper, but this is a totally different conversation for another, another day. One of the things I'd love to find out from entrepreneurs because you sort of alluded to it here is well, let me ask you this when you're working a corporate job and this is the people I talk to a lot that say this they're working a corporate job and say I want to be an entrepreneur because I just want to be my own boss and make my own hours and the kind of the dream is you're going to become an entrepreneur and you're just going to work three hours a week and the money is just going to be printed, and that's the way it works, and then they actually become an entrepreneur, realize that it's a time consuming more than your nine to five job was.

Speaker 2: 16:39

Um, how do you downtime? So, like you just said a minute ago, you don't do downtime well or you don't. You know it's not. You don't do relax well. Do you have hobbies that you do outside of the studio, or are you just constantly editing photos?

Speaker 3: 16:54

No, so I do not constantly edit photos. I actually have a team member that edits for me. So, but no, I my downtime. So my boyfriend and I, we love concerts, and so that's we concerts and sporting events. Obviously, I'm a Gator Mike, so I love football.

Speaker 2: 17:11

I mean you're a Gator, but how? Whether or not that's football, that's a different podcast too, Okay so you're a big Florida Gator fan for that. Do you go to the Bucks games? Do you go to the lightning games? What is the sport, your go-to sport, that um do you go to the bucks games?

Speaker 3: 17:26

do you go to the lightning games? What is the sport, your go-to sport? So I have two I love football and I love hockey. Huge lightning fan was a season ticket holder for a long time, uh, and it just got to be a little too much to get to all the games. But I love lightning games, I love football games. I'm actually a jets fan, which I know you can say, feel sorry. I know how well. My whole family's from New York originally, and so I grew up watching the Jets with my grandfather and my brothers and so I just kind of kicked it.

Speaker 2: 17:54

So your family's from Queens or Long Island which?

Speaker 1: 17:56

one.

Speaker 2: 17:56

Long.

Speaker 3: 17:57

Island Okay.

Speaker 2: 17:58

See how do I know that? Because Queens and Long Island is generally Jets. Yeah, Every other borough in New Jersey and part of New Jersey is a mix, but it's mostly Giants.

Speaker 3: 18:08

I'm a Giants fan If you cannot tell on my wall behind me you can see my. Michael Strahan picture. Oh yeah, yeah, I see it. There you go.

Speaker 2: 18:16

So yeah, so I'm a huge Giants fan, so you end up the Jets fan, so that we technically I guess that's football. But this year Aaron Rodgers should actually maybe stay healthy, so that would actually help If he can get past the first snap, if he can get past the first set of downs.

Speaker 3: 18:30

that's a win, Because last year he didn't make it, we can get past the first snap this year.

Speaker 2: 18:35

So concert-wise. So what is your genre? Do you guys have the season passes to the fairgrounds or do you not like to be outside for that? I just saw Cheap Trick and Heart the other day, which was fun. But what do you have lined up? What are you going to?

Speaker 3: 18:49

see, what are you going to see? So we've been to Vegas twice to see U2.

Speaker 2: 18:53

Huge U2 fan At the.

Speaker 3: 18:54

Sphere. Oh my God, Mike, you have to go.

Speaker 2: 18:57

Yeah, I hear it's really incredible.

Speaker 3: 18:59

It was incredible, but lined up here. We just finished seeing Billy Joel and Sting. That was incredible.

Speaker 2: 19:06

I saw that too at Ray J.

Speaker 3: 19:08

Unbelievable. I cannot believe the way Sting is still moving around at 78. Unreal, crazy, unbelievable, crazy, crazy. We're going to see Sammy Hagar. We have Sticks tickets. We have a fight for fighting. Oh, we saw, saw kenny chesney and zach brown. I love zach brown, that's cool.

Speaker 2: 19:31

Well, I lived in georgia. A bunch of my friends went to west georgia, which is zach brown's like stomping ground, so they had seen. When he was first coming on the scene, when I was in living in georgia, they were like, oh, we saw him in college playing bars in Carrollton. We're going to see Alanis Morissette coming up, we're going to see I don't know. There's a whole bunch.

Speaker 3: 19:52

There's a lot coming here this year. There's a lot coming.

Speaker 2: 19:54

There's a whole bunch of stuff coming. I did want to say isn't there residency ending soon at this year? It's done.

Speaker 3: 20:03

It's over.

Speaker 2: 20:07

Okay, I thought so. My ex-wife was my first wife. Okay, I have two exes. My first wife was a huge, huge u2 fan and she worked for a company where she just had access to a ticket broker. I've seen u2 three times and bono is just incredible every single time. Like people make fun of him because he's like so rock star ish, but he puts on a show that is just unbelievable. It's incredible and I can't imagine the sphere looks amazing. Who's coming there next?

Speaker 3: 20:36

uh, the grateful dead, I think.

Speaker 1: 20:38

Oh see, and I never liked the grateful dead and he just never did it for me?

Speaker 3: 20:45

I don't think so.

Speaker 2: 20:46

So concerts, sporting events, and then the Gators and the Jets, we'll kind of put them in a separate category. So you're in Wesley Chapel, you're a part of the community, I think, and I may be wrong about this, but I think you and I kind of just missed each other. You were a Rotarian in the Wesley Chapel Rotary at one point and.

Speaker 2: 21:05

I think, as I was coming into the Rotary, you were, I guess, coming out of it. Um, do you, do you do stuff like that? Or I mean, I know you're not in the Rotary Club because I'm in it right now, but I mean you're welcome to come back. We have you know new year starting. I'm going to be sergeant at arms. It's going to be amazing.

Speaker 3: 21:22

I know Captain Rob. He keeps begging me to come back. Who is Captain Rob Hamilton?

Speaker 2: 21:26

I literally just text him 15 minutes ago because we were planning his party his summer.

Speaker 1: 21:34

Yeah, we're planning that right now.

Speaker 2: 21:36

All right, so maybe we'll see each other there. I love Captain Rob. Him and I play or we play trivia at the Brass Towers for like months and months and months. He is a great guy. We can do a whole podcast on him, but but yeah, I mean the group is great, but do you do other stuff? Since you're not doing that, have you reshifted your calendar to do other community type stuff?

Speaker 3: 21:58

Yeah, so I came out of Rotary because of several things. When COVID kind of came, I started mentoring for a group, for a group of photographers and the company's based overseas and our main webinar time is Wednesdays from noon till three.

Speaker 1: 22:14

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 22:15

And so I kind of interfered with our Rotary time and I just didn't want to miss lunch every week and then do stuff on the weekend.

Speaker 3: 22:25

Long story with that, but so I do a lot with that group, mentoring other photographers, and that takes up a lot of time, but otherwise it's really a lot through my kids' schools, and so I my daughter is about to be a senior in high school, and so I've been doing a lot in volunteering and she's just very active right now, and so I have to go back to Rotary a little bit to do more work with them so what's?

Speaker 2: 22:50

where is she graduating from? Academy at the Lakes okay, wow, we, we are very intertwined. We'll, we'll have that conversation. But, um, academy at the Lakes. So she's going to be be a senior. I was literally just at Academy at the Lakes yesterday talking to Sue Gunther, who is one of the people I work with there. So what is she involved in at Academy at the Lakes? Is she in the drama club? Is she in the engineering fast track? What is she doing?

Speaker 3: 23:19

So she was on the swim team with Sue's son, so they swam together last year.

Speaker 2: 23:26

Don't tell me she learned to swim at watermelon swim Cause I literally just reported a podcast.

Speaker 3: 23:29

All right, I was going to say too much, so she swims with.

Speaker 2: 23:34

Sue's son.

Speaker 3: 23:36

Uh, and then she does odyssey of the mind.

Speaker 2: 23:39

Is that a um, is that like a? I mean I, you know, I'm not going to guess, I didn't want to guess what that is. What is Odyssey of the Mind?

Speaker 3: 23:48

So it's an interesting competition that merges the creative and the technical. It's very interesting, very intriguing. They didn't have it when I was young.

Speaker 1: 23:55

Is it like a?

Speaker 3: 23:55

robotics.

Speaker 2: 23:56

Is it like a virtual reality?

Speaker 3: 23:59

No. So there's like 10 different programs or problems and the the each team picks which problem they want to compete in. So Aaron's problem this year it was a. They had to design a robot that would move through a movie scene. So they had to act the movie scene, they had to build the movie scene and they had to have this robot complete certain tasks. So it really mixed the drama, the acting, the creativity and then also the technical bits of having to build this robot.

Speaker 2: 24:27

That's pretty in depth. I mean in high school. I mean, listen, I'm 52. So there was no robotics, there was no cell phone. There was like none of that. The cell phone we had as a kid was a block. It was like the size of my hands, like this. It was like that big and it sat in the car plugged into the cigarette lighter. The technology wasn't around for me when I was there.

Speaker 3: 24:47

That was the dine attack made by motorola. By the way, right it was. I think it was a motorola, um.

Speaker 2: 24:53

And then the funny thing, though, is I go over there because they're one of my clients. I work with academy at the lakes, um, and they're building it's so beautiful the stuff they're making that place I I mean your daughter's not going to get to enjoy it. It really is gorgeous. They're transforming the whole section of the campus. It looks great. It looks amazing. So she's going to graduate next year and I'm assuming she's applying to be a Gator. She's not going to go to the University of Georgia, is she?

Speaker 3: 25:23

Yeah, no, she's not going to the University of Georgia. So it's so funny. I told her listen, baby, I want you to live your dream. You go where you want to go, except for Florida.

Speaker 2: 25:32

State.

Speaker 3: 25:33

Georgia and Alabama Perfect. Anywhere else is open to your dreams.

Speaker 2: 25:39

Auburn is open game. You can go to Auburn. We don't have any bitter rivalry with those guys. You can go anywhere you want. That's awesome. So if I'm listening to this, like if I'm a mom and a dad, and I'm listening to this and I want to get you know a family shot, shots of our baby, or I'm kind of like seven, eight months pregnant and maybe you guys do those pre-delivery type pictures or you don't do pre-baby pictures that's the largest subject type pictures, or you don't do pre-baby picture, that's the largest subject. But if I'm getting ready to have the baby and I want to do the shoot, or I just have a young child, I want to do it. What's the best way for people to connect with you?

Speaker 3: 26:13

So they can connect with us by calling us, but if they want to see us online, our website, our Instagram and our Facebook are very active. I'm posting on Facebook and Instagram almost every day, and so it's a really great way to people follow us. On Instagram, it's at Cloud9Studios it's the number nine in there, and same thing on Facebook. We keep it easy.

Speaker 2: 26:33

Well, that's easy. You got all that stuff lined up. So, folks, if you're listening to this and you don't have to be in Wesley Chapel I mean you could be in Zephyr Hills, dade City, san Antonio, land O'Lakes, come over from New Tampa, tampa Palms, come up and see Janine. Her studio is great. It's right in Wesley Chapel, right behind Sam's Club, in that little section of Seven Oaks that is sort of a business complex. You can call them to get some information at 813-994-4552. Or you can check them out on all their socials. It's at cloud, the number nine, and you could look up all their work and see what they do. Jean, thank you for being a good neighbor. Thank you for being on the good neighbor podcast. You have an amazing day.

Speaker 3: 27:13

Thank you for having me, mike, this has been fun.

Speaker 1: 27:16

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