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Yellowstone Proposal – continued

After getting chased out of Yellowstone National Park by circumstances outside of my control, namely a Bison traffic jam and wildly powerful weather that took an hour out of my photo shoot with this fine couple. Days later we met in the gorgeous Paradise Valley in Montana… I like to call it my backyard studio. Images of joy above the mighty Yellowstone River and on an overlook above the valley with Champagne, giggles, happiness, hugs and kisses! Then just when we thought we were done with the photo shoot the sky exploded and we found a river access that made the perfect place to make some fast images and call it a day! Quite a day indeed!

Nishaad and Alexa, the pleasure was mine… enjoy the view!

Yellowstone Proposal – dramatic

Yesterday was a dramatic day in Yellowstone National Park. As I entered from the north and as I ascended in altitude I could see the dark cloud bank building in the west. A raincoat and umbrella were included in my gear bag today along with multiple cameras. Off the road and down the hillside I walked and hovered in an area beside the massive Yellowstone River. Clouds gathered and soon lightening was dancing above my head in the dark clouds. Then the rain came, the lightening struck across the river from me and it was close enough that I ran up the hill and took cover in my car! As soon as the weather lightened up a bit, I hiked back down to my position and hoped that my client was not put off by the weather. Then, as planned Nishaad and Alexa came walking down the hill toward the general vicinity. Occupying myself with photographing the sky, and whatever else I could find, I tried to look like any other YNP photog! Then Nishaad made his move.

After the surprise, the tears of joy and happy hearts… we planned our next location and took to the very busy road only to be stopped dead in our tracks by a buffalo traffic jam. A herd of Bison decided to mover across the road and we were stuck for 20 minutes and things were not moving. This made it impossible to reach the Yellowstone Lake before sunset as planned.

So we turned back and opted to shoot briefly along side the road and made plans to continue our shoot on another day in the scenic Paradise Valley.

This story will be continued in about a week. Cheers to my newly engaged friends!

So, I packed up my gear and made plans with these two beautiful souls to meet with them in another place for more engagement photo fun.

The drive home toward the north was covered with a sky that was threatening a STORM. Then the visual drama kept building and I just had to stop and watch and photograph this supernatural looking display! Wow.. this one is going on a wall somewhere!

Wyoming wedding

This wedding took place way above Buffalo, Wyoming in the Big Horn mountains! What was once planned to be a large scale wedding elsewhere was sized down to family and friends close to home for this intimate family affair. With their own rendition of a ‘traditional western’ wedding, Richelle and Duncan exchanged vows on the land where her family has hunted, camped and played for many years.

After the ceremony and a mountain side snack, we had to take cover from a storm that blew in and dumped rain and hail. It was all too amazing… then the sky opened up and gifted them with double rainbow. Remarkable!

After that we hopped into a beautifully renovated 60’s Willys Jeep wagon and down, down, down the Crazy Woman Canyon we went, stopping here and there for pictures in it’s magical surrounds.

See for yourself!

Richelle’s brother presided and emotions ran deep

and look who showed up to shoot with me! My friend, the inimitable Cali Frankovich!

Cheers to Richelle and Duncan! Thanks for sharing your family wedding with Heather and I! love… Larry

Yellowstone River engagement

We had been waiting for this day! And finally everything aligned and it was a stellar day to photograph on the banks of the mighty Yellowstone River.

Rachel and Ian are marrying next June and we’ve been jockeying around busy schedules, rainy weather and life in general to land on a day to shoot. Perseverance and patience won out! So we met up by the river and packed in about a mile with clothes, cameras and a swim suit. I never miss a chance to get into the Yellowstone.

Oh my… it was magic. Check it out!

And in the end, once again I reunited with the waters of this amazing river!
Photo by the bride to be: Rachel Olsen

Gallatin River Hideaway engagement

I met Michael and Rebecca yesterday at the Gallatin River Hideaway for a ‘getting to know you’ engagement session. I love this part of what I do! It’s serves as a photographer’s meet and greet. It gives me the opportunity to meet my new clients face to face and see who they are and how they interact with one another. And, they get to meet me in person and see how I work… fast and fun! They will have a great collection of images of this lovely day together at this beautiful venue they have chosen. It has many pluses, but the best part of it for me is that I will not be a stranger to them on the wedding day. They will be less camera aware which will allow me to capture more of the natural occurring beautiful moments of their wedding day.

Enjoy these warm and sunny moments along the banks of the Gallatin River. Cheers to Michael and Rebecca!

Yellowstone proposal wide view

Jared proposed marriage to Jenn during their trip to Yellowstone National Park right after Independence Day. It was a warm and sunny afternoon in our nation’s first National Park… and it was GRAND! I got into the park a little early anticipating slow traffic, but the weekend flood of visitors had subsided a bit. So, I took the extra 30 minutes to roam around and do some location research for future proposals and elopements. So glad I did! I found this magic little river off one of the main roads. Driving slowly along a small road I saw the twinkle of a stream through a wall of thick green trees and bushes. Parking hastily, I walked and ducked down through the small opening, ‘a beyul perhaps’ into a heaven realm right here on earth! So after the big surprise I told them of my discovery and they were ALL IN to go there for some images at the end of our shoot. It was a glorious day in my backyard studio… smiles. Enjoy the view!