Anna & Jose's elopement in Banff National Park: the opening frame

Peyto Lake & Bow Lake, Banff National Park · Early Summer 2025

Anna & Jose

Portra 400 · 14 frames · One day

They opened the day at Bow Lake, on the boardwalk, while the water was still flat enough to hold Crowfoot Mountain upside down. Ten minutes further up the Icefields Parkway they said their vows on the rock above Peyto, with a handful of people watching and an officiant in a cowboy hat holding the folder. Anna wore white boots under the tulle because the walk out to that rock is loose gravel the whole way and nobody has ever managed it in heels. The bouquet was orange and cornflower blue, the two colours that hold their own against a turquoise lake. Fourteen frames, one afternoon, no second shooter.

IBow Lake, firstFrames 01 — 04
Anna and Jose kissing on the Bow Lake boardwalk, Crowfoot Mountain behind them
Anna and Jose the size of two pins on the far shore, Crowfoot Mountain reflected whole in Bow Lake
Jose reaching back to take Anna's hand as she steps across the rock, snowfield behind
Jose alone on the outcrop in sunglasses, black and white, the peak behind him
IIThe vows above PeytoFrames 05 — 09
Peyto Lake and the Mistaya valley from the upper viewpoint, no people in the frame
The ceremony above Peyto Lake, a handful of guests standing in a loose arc on the rock
The officiant in a cowboy hat reading from a black folder while Anna and Jose hold hands
Anna and Jose holding both hands through their vows, forest and snow peaks behind the officiant
Anna and Jose holding each other on the rock immediately after the vows, Peyto Lake below
IIIThe rest of the lightFrames 10 — 14
Anna's bouquet of orange roses and cornflowers held at her waist, ring on her hand
Anna alone above Peyto Lake with her bouquet, looking off down the valley
Anna's white boots and Jose's brown oxfords on the gravel, the bouquet set down beside them
Anna's veil pulled straight out sideways by the wind above Peyto Lake
Anna and Jose forehead to forehead on the rocks at the Peyto Lake overlook, the whole turquoise lake below

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