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october 7, 2026 Crater Lake national park
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Canoeing + A lakeside cake cutting
your investment
A $250 deposit secures your spot, with the remaining balance due 7 days before the shoot. The galleries you create here are built to book full-day and multi-day elopements worth thousands.
The crater lake Content Day is $1,000
One booking from this content covers your investment several times over, and everything after that is profit.
What's included
The outdoors is for everyone, and your portfolio should show it. We're intentional about casting real, diverse couples, including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ couples, so your future clients can see themselves reflected in your work.
Diverse, real couples
Not included: lodging, transportation, park entry fees, and other personal expenses.
You'll get immediate access to a private group with your fellow attendees, so you can coordinate carpools, travel, and lodging, and start making friends before you arrive. Most people come solo and don't stay strangers for long. In an industry where we don't have coworkers, the connections and referrals you walk away with end up being priceless.
A private attendee group and lasting community
This content day takes place inside a National Park, and I'll walk you through the special use permitting process start to finish, which is the exact skill you'll need every time you photograph a couple on protected land. We'll also cover the Leave No Trace principles that protect these spaces and why understanding our impact matters. Protecting the places we shoot in is part of our job as photographers, and learning to do it right makes you more bookable and a better steward of the land we all love.
Permitting + Leave No Trace education
Two couples, two full day elopements. Each one is planned like a real elopement: slow mornings, first looks, ceremony moments, golden hour portraits, and the in-between details that make a gallery feel real. You're not walking away with a handful of pretty photos. You're walking away with full, realistic galleries that let couples truly picture themselves in the story.
Two full adventure elopement galleries
We keep groups small and split into even smaller rotations between the two couples, so everyone gets equal shooting time and nobody's fighting for the frame. The photographers you'll be standing shoulder to shoulder with? You'll leave calling them friends
An intimate, supportive shooting group
Every content day is a single day, sunrise to sunset, built like two real elopements from start to finish.
Most content days give you one look. This one gives you three. Impossible blue water and volcanic rim at sunrise, moss and falling water in old-growth forest at midday, still alpine lake and lantern light at dusk. It's one of the most efficient portfolio days I've ever built, because you leave with a gallery that proves range instead of a gallery that proves you were in one pretty spot.
Three landscapes, one gallery
Grab your spot during launch week and get my full Crater Lake location guide.
It includes where to eat, the best hikes and hidden gems, the top ceremony locations in the area, adventure activities, and vendor recommendations, packaged as a resource you can use for your own business and pass straight to your future couples eloping in the area.
It's the kind of thing that makes couples trust you instantly, because it proves you actually know this place.
Only available if you book between September 14th–20th!
your crater lake insider guide
Book during launch week
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How to grab your spot
Join the waitlist
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You'll get your confirmation, your launch week bonus, and access to the attendee group. Then come ready to shoot, explore, and build the gallery that books your dream couples.
Get on the Crater Lake waitlist to be the first to know when applications open, and get priority when they do.
When applications go live, tell me a little about you, your goals, and why this content day feels like a fit. Keeping groups small and intentional is part of what makes these days work.
When approved, secure your place with your $250 deposit and sign your agreement. That's it, you're in!
A single day, sunrise to sunset, structured like two real, full-day elopements. You'll photograph two couples across three different locations, plus Crater Lake-specific adventure activities. Everything is planned start to finish so you leave with complete, realistic galleries you can use to book full-day elopements.
I've had those experiences too, which is exactly why I build these with intention. Every shoot is planned to give you galleries you can actually use to pitch full-day, high-ticket elopements and start booking the kind of work you want. And yes, you'll walk away with new friends too.
Small, on purpose. We include two couples at each shoot location and split the group in two, rotating equally between couples. That way everyone gets equal shooting time and there's no fighting for the frame. It makes the day better creatively, and it makes it way easier to actually connect with the people you're shooting alongside.
The waitlist is where you want to be. Waitlisters get access to tickets a full 24 hours before anyone else, plus first dibs on the launch bonus. With spots this limited, there's a real chance a content day sells out to the waitlist before the public ever sees it. Joining costs you nothing and holds your place at the front of the line.
The application is quick, and it's how I get to know you and your goals so the day actually delivers what you need and so the group stays small and intentional.
No, permitting for the content day is taken care of. But I'll walk you through the special use permitting process so you understand exactly how it works, because you'll need to do it yourself when you photograph your own couples on protected land down the road. You'll still need to cover your own park entry/recreation pass.
Leave No Trace is foundational to everything I do. Respecting and protecting the land we work on isn't optional, it's part of our job as photographers. I plan every content day with our impact in mind, and I'll teach you the principles so you can carry them into your own work and pass them on to your couples.
Not much, which is why this day works. Our rim locations are roadside pullouts and short walks, the waterfall is about a mile each way on an easy forest trail, and the lake is a drive-up. Wear comfortable hiking shoes with good tread and you'll be fine.
October at 7,000 feet is its own animal. Expect crisp mornings in the 30s, afternoons in the 50s, and a real chance of the season's first snow, which honestly makes for some of the most striking frames in the park. Bring layers, bring gloves, bring a shell, and bring more batteries than you think you need, because cold drains them fast. (Weather-dependent adjustments are always part of the plan.)
Fly into Medford (MFR), which is roughly a two-hour drive to the park. Portland (PDX) works too if you're building a longer trip, though it's closer to five hours. Lodging options run from Prospect and Union Creek on the west side to Fort Klamath and Klamath Falls to the south, plus Diamond Lake lodging to the north. A vehicle is required, and the attendee group makes it easy to split a rental or coordinate lodging.
crater lake is calling.
One day. two galleries. One booking to make it all worth it.
Picture it: your gallery opening on a champagne spray against a caldera in first light, vows exchanged in the mist of a waterfall, a canoe cutting across still alpine water at golden hour, and closing on lantern light in the blue dark. Three worlds, one day, two stories. A place you can shoot again and again for your own couples, starting with the portfolio you build here. That gallery is one day away.
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