by Utah Wedding Photographers James Erick Photography Utah
Rainbows and Flowers Engagement Session with Megan & Josh
The Rainbows and Flowers Engagement Session will go down in the record books as one of the most awesome photo shoots I have ever done. I promised Megan & Josh we would get some really beautiful wildflowers and scenic views, but I had no Idea we would get an amazing rainbow on top of it all! I know what your thinking...I photo-shopped it in. I wish I could do that! Rainbows are translucent, meaning that if I did that you would be able to tell as the background of the rainbow would not look like the space around it. So yes, this is a real rainbow.
Shooting any session in the spring time is a gamble. It could rain, or it could be cloudy, or both. When we set off up the mountain to do the shoot, we stopped about half-way to a place I knew there would be lots of blue wildflowers. It was so beautiful, 4 foot tall bushes of blue flowers surrounded Megan & Josh. In the background, an aspen tree forest filled the landscape.
But if the first location was beautiful, the second was spectacular! We ended up at buffalo Peak, a mountain top filled with a field of yellow flowers with green leaves, with purple snow capped mountains in the background. And if it could not get any better, after shooting there for about 15 minutes, a rainbow started to form! Not an average, small or partial rainbow, but a full, huge rainbow nearly right in front of us! In my life I have only seen maybe a handful of full rainbows, and never one this close. I was hard to get the whole rainbow in the picture. I thought, what's next, is a unicorn going to fly by in the background?
Since Rainbows sometimes only last for a few minutes, we started shooting like crazy, running from one part of the field to another. All in all I took over 475 pictures, mostly with the rainbow in it. It was a day I will never forget!
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