Golden Hour Engagements
Basin Road Florals
Cotton Field Engagement
Sammy + Dave
Freezing Lake Dip
Somehow I am lucky enough to call these two my friends. I officially met Melissa and James during a New Years Eve party a few years ago. Low key Juneau style, I already knew who they were and I think I just knew I wanted to be friends with them. I knew Melissa because she had begun working at Frenchies Floral Studio and designed all the floral pieces at the NYE event, and James had been recently made social media famous by the One Hot Mess Blog. Jump forward to the point in our friendship where Melissa and James were unable to say no to my “so I have this idea for a photoshoot” texts, that is how these photos happen. Being almost October at sundown, this shoot took all of 11 minutes. Cheers to great friends, willing to go the extra mile for the photos. I probably owe them a stiff drink after this shoot!
Dirty Laundry
On the beach where the children play,
White-capped waves dash and roar all day,
Bringing and tossing foam so white-
Really it is a lovely sight.
Do you know what the ferries tell,
Makes the white foam on every swell?
“Mermaids are washing clothes today,
And that’s fairy soap suds,” they say.
In the caves of the deep blue sea,
Dwell the mermaids, happy and free;
Their wash-tub is a big sea-shell,
(At least that’s what the Fairies tell.)
They hang their clothes on a sea-weed rope,
And always wash them with fairy-soap;
The suds float up from the deep sea-caves,
And that’s the foam on top of the waves.
Outfits from Resolute Boutique located
in Juneau, Alaska
Juneau Ice Caves Engagement
Ice caves, no ice caves. Frozen lake, thawed lake. Cold winter, warm winter. Conditions and maybe a little bit of luck are everything when making the trip to the famous ice caves at the Mendenhall Glacier!
On this particular morning, Shalyn, Derek, Kevin (aka boyfriend/bag + coat holding assistant), and I made the 2 mile hike over the frozen Mendenhall lake to the ice caves, because the conditions were, just right!
Every year the caves are a little different. Which means for us, the exploring never ends. The ice melts, new caves open up, sometimes a river off the mountain will carve out a new path into the glacier. It’s all so magical.
Our trip to the face of the glacier for these photos came right before the big Juneau frenzy started! There was a stint of 3 weeks of freezing sunny weather, the path was just slightly packed across the lake making it easier for walking, and we really weren’t sure what backdrops we were going to find! We never ended up taking engagement photos inside of the cave. However, the last photo in this post is one of Shalyn from inside! One entrance was literally a military crawl, not ideal for most, by the slight claustrophobic freak out and thought of being crushed by the ice might have been worth that view!
