Entlaufen bei Sonnenuntergang

Every wedding photographer’s dream would be for the bride and groom to relinquish complete control of their wedding to the photographer to allow them to determine the location, time, attire, time of wedding and everything else. Not only that, but to have no other guests at the wedding, and allow them to do a 5hr photo shoot around Santa Barbara with just them. That happened to me this weekend. Stephanie & Vadim decided to elope. They wanted to get married in the Santa Barbara area and hired me to escort them around to various locations to capture just the two of them in different spots. We started at the Santa Barbara Courthouse, and then went to these botanical gardens with a duck pond. Then over to the Mission rose garden, and finally for their ceremony, Knapp’s Castle – an unfinished castle/mansion at 3000ft atop the mountains of Santa Barbara. I told them late July would work best so the sunset would be peering through the arches. They gave me complete control to do all their other photos fir