Vows in a desert garden, photographed from the aisle so nothing had to stop for the camera. The arch, the guests leaning in, the laugh in the middle of a sentence.

Hands held through the vows under a hexagon arch, with everyone they love packed into the rows on either side.

Vows

Room was left for the sky on this one. The couple walked out to the edge, forgot the camera was there, and the weather did the rest.

A first kiss on an open ridge, with half of northern Arizona going blue in the distance behind them.

Overlook

Nothing here was arranged beyond pointing them down the trail. The laugh is the picture, and the desert simply happened to be standing behind it.

A laugh that arrived on its own, arms locked, saguaro standing guard on the hillside behind.

Saguaro

Last usable light of the evening, out past the end of the path. One dip, one frame, and back inside before anyone noticed they had gone.

A dip on the trail at last light, boulders and saguaro standing in for a dance floor.

Shot into the sun with the bouquet held low, waiting for something funny to be said just off frame. It usually is.

A bride caught mid-laugh with her bouquet, the low sun coming straight through the desert behind her.

Golden Hour

An engagement session that was mostly walking. Keep them moving, stay out of the way, and the pictures make themselves.

Walking hand in hand up a green hillside with the sun coming over the ridge behind them.

Hillside

Up in the pines, on a road that goes nowhere in particular. She shut her eyes and held on, which is the whole photograph.

An embrace on a red dirt road, tall pines and open meadow holding the edges of the frame.

Pines

Stepped back far enough to let the building win. The weather came in hard about a minute after this and the portraits were done.

Two people made small against a wall of red brick, a hard sky moving in over the top of it.

Brick

The light went pink for about four minutes. This is the frame from the middle of it, when neither of them was saying anything.

Forehead to forehead as the sky turns over, the whole frame given to that one quiet moment.