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Winter engagement sessions

Fast and Fun!

Kathleen and Charles are marrying on this beautiful Big Sky ranch in 5 short months. The 320 Guest Ranch is always beautiful, whether it is covered in the white of winter or the lush green of high altitude spring and summer!

This couple chose to come and visit in the winter to meet with vendors and make their final arrangements for their August wedding. And… they wanted outdoor engagement sessions regardless of temperatures and snow.

Kathleen was set on braving the weather in her gorgeous gown and the Charles donned a jacket for some of the shoot.

This was one of the quickest engagement sessions I have ever done. One of my early teachers always said ‘it doesn’t take time it takes attunement’! It always made me think of the fleeting and lightening fast passing of moments.

In the same vein, I’ve always repeated in my mind that it doesn’t take a lot of time to capture amazing images. Moments are fleeting by very quickly compared to minutes or hours! Well, this time I had the chance to prove out my thoughts and test my skills. Here are over a dozen captured moments that spanned only 17 minutes and at least 9 of those minutes my subjects were warming themselves in the car between the 3 quick sets.

Kathleen and Charles, I can’t wait to see the images we make together in August! Cheers, Larry

spinning to keep warm!

wedding by the Yellowstone

It’s not always that I get the opportunity to shoot a wedding just blocks from my home right here in Livingston Montana.  The fall colors brought a unique beauty to Sacajawea Park and the adjacent Yellowstone river.  Anne Marie and Dan contacted me earlier in the year and I was excited to be hired for the photography.  The colorful autumn weather held off colder temperatures until the day after the wedding.  Phew…!

Thanks to my good friend and stellar photographer Carlie Breen Auger for second shooting with me.  Here is a mix of some of the beautiful images we captured… Oh yes, and a fun collection of my images portraying what it’s really like with the groomsmen in their ‘get ready’ process!

enjoy the view!

























 

Glorious summer wedding

Summertime will be here before you know it!  At this time of year when temperatures don’t get much above 45 F and usually everything is covered with the white snow blanket of the season, I love to go back and revisit a favorite Montana summer wedding when things were green and gorgeous.  Take a minute to breath in the love and the beauty of this wedding at The Chateau Event Center in Bozeman.

Currently I still have some select Saturdays open for summer weddings. So if you’re shopping for a seasoned professional that loves capturing all the beautiful moments, let’s talk.

The delicious floral creations were created by my friend Julio at The Flower Hat!

Cheers and enjoy the view!   Larry





















 

Hybrid wedding imagery

I’m excited to announce a unique addition to my wedding photography menu!

Ok, so… In November I found myself in a helicopter with one of my clients going up into the mountains to capture amazing wedding portraits. Camden Miller was the videographer that also got this unique opportunity. We met at the hanger before the flight and over the course of the next few hours and days, we became friends and ever since we’ve been putting our heads together to create what I call a ‘Montana hybrid imagery’ package.

A couple weeks ago we had our first shot at making this endeavor a reality. It goes like this. Camden and I work together seamlessly to capture both still imagery (that’s my job!) and Camden does his artful work to captures video highlights of the wedding day experience. This wedding took place on a snowy day at the Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky. Mother Nature put on a beautiful show of the most serene snowfall for the sleigh ride into the mountains and the wedding ceremony. It was magic!

With the talented drone piloting and video work of Camden, the end result is a full collection of moments captured in still photography and a highlights video for the couple to have to view for a lifetime. It’s really the best of both worlds… Montana Hybrid Imagery.

So take in the show and then see the moments captured as still photos below.

As we walk through this life always… Enjoy the view!


Lone Mountain Ranch wedding

Winter time brings a beautiful white hush to the mountains in our Montana Big Sky country. A scenic mountainous wonderland for downhill, cross country and back country skiing is abundant. Only a few brave couples decide to marry outside during the long months of winter. Those who dare reap the rewards!

Joanna and Andrew made plans in November last year to marry at the scenic Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky, Montana. I was excited and pleased to put them on my schedule for an early February wedding. They made plans to marry on the ridge above the lodge with amazing views regardless of the weather or temperature.

Bitter cold days pressed in on our area for a couple of weeks before the wedding. I prepared myself and my gear for the worst. Fortunately there was a magical inversion in the area of the lodge. The temperature in the Bozeman valley below Big Sky hovered around the zero mark, while 2000 feet higher at Lone Mountain Ranch it was an amazing 30 degrees! And OH MY… did it snow. The most luscious snowfall I have seen for awhile. The end result was an amazing winter wonderland wedding in the mountains!

So, please take a couple of minutes and experience the bliss of this ‘marriage at altitude’ in Montana!

Congratulations to Joanna and Andrew! Thanks for finding me…

Portraits, women, yoga and horses

Portrait: A Glimpse of the Soul

Making portraits is very personal to me. There is no crowd of people, nor grand wedding event in the process. In this case, it’s just me and the yogini, a gorgeous horse and our amazing Wranglers, Molly and Henry Glenn. I love the experience, it’s subtle and moving to me on a soul level. Perhaps it’s a lot like yoga for this photographer’s brain and soul.

Today I sat down and reviewed portraits of the ladies of Big Sky Yoga Reteats and Cowgirl Yoga from the last two years. These images made me grateful for my profession, the path that I have both chose and was led to in this life! Spring is right around the corner and I am looking forward to meeting and photographing many new friends!

Enjoy the slideshow!