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Josh and Krista in Camelot

Earlier this year Joshua and Krista married atop the Rims above Billings Montana. Because of the threat of the covid virus, a very small group of family and friends gathered to witness the intimate and very meaningful wedding ceremony. Fast forward four months… Josh and Krista did it again… this time the wedding was complete with all their family and friends at the beautiful Camelot Ranch outside of Billings.

The day was warm, hearts were happy and the evening was graced with an amazing sunset that I put to good use for my fine friends. Cheers to Krista and Josh Nelson!

Enjoy the view

Thanks to my friend Cali Frankovic for making the trip to second shoot this beautiful wedding with me. You rock Cali!

Yellowstone Proposal – sweet!

It’s been a busy couple of weeks and once again I found myself driving early in the morning into our nations Yellowstone National Park. Hunter and I planned the logistics so as to meet at Artists Point for the proposal and this was the historic day for Hunter and Emilie.

Cruising through Paradise Valley at 5:45 am, the sunrise was radiating pink light over the entire valley. Whoa! I had to stop and grab the visual treat.

In a word… SWEET! I so enjoyed capturing the proposal and running around making adventurous photos with them. Enjoy the view!

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!