Argentine Patagonia differs from its Chilean counterpart in character as much as in geography. Torres del Paine in Chile gives you three granite towers. El Chaltén in Argentina gives you Fitz Roy, a massif of spires that reads more complex and more jagged. Perito Moreno, accessible from El Calafate, gives you the only glacier in the world that is still growing and calves continuously into a lake. Ushuaia, the southernmost city on earth, gives you the Beagle Channel and the mountains of Tierra del Fuego. These are not interchangeable destinations.

Couple in wedding attire standing together in Argentine Patagonia with the dramatic granite spires of the Fitz Roy massif rising behind them — El Chaltén and the Fitz Roy massif: the jagged granite silhouette of Argentine Patagonia is one of the most distinctive mountain forms in elopement photography anywhere in the world

El Chaltén and Fitz Roy

El Chaltén is a small trekking village at the base of the Fitz Roy massif and the trailhead for the most spectacular mountain terrain in Argentine Patagonia. The two primary viewpoints are Laguna de los Tres, a glacial lake directly below the Fitz Roy summit that requires a four-to-five hour hike, and Laguna Capri, a smaller lake with a slightly less demanding trail that still gives the full Fitz Roy profile. The combination of the jagged granite ridgeline, the turquoise glacial lakes, and the Patagonian weather patterns produces photographs that are immediately and unmistakably Argentine Patagonia.

Couple during their elopement at a glacial lake in Argentine Patagonia with the jagged Fitz Roy massif reflected in the still water behind them — Laguna de los Tres at the base of Fitz Roy: the hike is four to five hours each way and the reward is this view, with the jagged massif reflected in the glacial lake

El Calafate and Perito Moreno Glacier

Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the few glaciers in the world still advancing. It calves into Lake Argentino with a frequency and scale that makes every visit a dynamic experience. The glacier face is over seventy metres high and five kilometres wide. The viewing boardwalks put couples in the foreground with the glacier's ice wall directly behind them. For photographs that communicate the scale of ice in a way that no static landscape does, Perito Moreno is without equal in South American elopement photography.

Couple in elopement attire standing in front of Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentine Patagonia with the massive ice wall and turquoise water visible behind them — Perito Moreno Glacier: the only major glacier in the world still advancing. The calving events, which happen multiple times per day, produce dramatic ice columns falling into the turquoise lake.

Ushuaia: The End of the World

Ushuaia sits on the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina and calls itself the southernmost city in the world. The photographs here are about the relationship between the city, the water, and the mountains above. Tierra del Fuego National Park, twenty minutes from the city centre, gives you forest, lakes, and the channel with the Chilean mountains visible on the far shore. The emotional quality of standing at the literal end of the road, at the southernmost city on earth, produces something in portraits that no other location in South America replicates.

Arman

Destination Wedding Photographer

Vancouver · Medellín · Worldwide