folsom lake

“2 months down until forever, can’t wait!” Michelle wrote this back in 2011 while responding to their wedding post on my blog. They celebrated their wedding day at the beautiful Fausel Ranch. Over the years we’ve had many sessions-pregnancy, newborn, kids, first year, growing family…you name it. Last summer we met up at Fausel Ranch for an anniversary celebration for Deanna and David who own the Ranch as well as anyone who got married at the Ranch. It was great to see them as well as so many other couples I have photographed there over the years. We talked about…

Sure, being surrounded in the lupine super bloom is pure magic, but as I came to find out, after meeting Alyse and Ryan for the first time, so are their energies, both with each other and with the pure sweetness they put out into the world. Our hour long session turned into a several as they chased the light around Folsom Lake with me while we carefully navigated the lupine. Not initially planning an engagement session, nor a wedding during covid, we were able to shift some wedding time into engagement time as their larger wedding required some scaling back,…