Fresno Photographer Mark Janzen, Fresno Wedding Photography and Portrait Photography » Yosemite Weddings http://www.markjanzenphotography.com Fresno Wedding Photographer and Portrait Photographer for Fresno, Visalia, and the Central Valley Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:00:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sarah and Edward – From the Wedding Lawn at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/sarah-and-edward-from-the-wedding-lawn-at-the-ahwahnee-in-yosemite-national-park/ http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/sarah-and-edward-from-the-wedding-lawn-at-the-ahwahnee-in-yosemite-national-park/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:08:01 +0000 admin http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/?p=3473 I gotta love a May that sends me to Yosemite National Park TWICE for weddings. The first was an amazing day, and Sarah and Edward’s wedding didn’t disappoint either. After several straight days of rain – and more rain in the forecast for the wedding day – remarkably the clouds parted and didn’t drop more than the tiniest of a sprinkle at any point during the day. Sarah was total trooper marching around the park, unafraid of a little dirt, in the quest for some amazing portraits. Sarah and Edward were married on the Wedding Lawn and the historic Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley following an afternoon roaming Cook’s Meadow, El Capitan Meadow, and the Yosemite Falls trails for their portrait session. Their reception followed the ceremony in the Solarium inside the Ahwahnee with dancing following in the Winter Club Room. Below are a few of my favorites from the day…Enjoy!

PS:  Yes, that’s a bear.  I went outside at dusk to get a shot or two of the Ahwahnee (see the last image as well as the vertical showing the solarium and the sunset image of Half Dome).  I took the first image and noticed through the trees that the sunset was hitting Half Dome.  So I started to walk across the meadow to find a better angle through the trees, looking at the LCD on the back of my camera as I walked.  I look up after a few steps and just a few yards in front of me was a huge bear!  For a moment I just froze, looking at him, looking at me.  Then he walked off and headed towards the trees at the far end of the meadow.  It was at that moment that I realized, DUH!, I have a camera so I fired off a quick couple of shots and then headed out to take the shot of Half Dome as I intended.

]]> http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/sarah-and-edward-from-the-wedding-lawn-at-the-ahwahnee-in-yosemite-national-park/feed/ 0 Heather and Andy – A Yosemite Wedding from the Historic Chapel and Ahwahnee Hotel http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/heather-and-andy-a-yosemite-wedding-from-the-historic-chapel-and-ahwahnee-hotel/ http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/heather-and-andy-a-yosemite-wedding-from-the-historic-chapel-and-ahwahnee-hotel/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:18:01 +0000 admin http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/?p=3389 Heather called me just a few short months ago to ask me about shooting her wedding in Yosemite. Of course I nearly leapt out of my chair at the chance. I’ve been going to Yosemite frequently since I was a young child. Many of the earliest photographs I ever made were in the park, so the prospect of shooting weddings there gets me all kinds of excited. I’ve photographed a few weddings in Yosemite Valley and I look forward to shooting many more Yosemite weddings. Below are a few of my favorites from Heather and Andy’s wedding from the historic chapel in Yosemite Valley and their reception in the beautiful Mural Room in the old Ahwahnee Hotel – and of course many portraits taken at several locations in the valley including Cook’s Meadow and El Capitan Meadow. Stay tuned for another Yosemite wedding in a week or so!

]]> http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/heather-and-andy-a-yosemite-wedding-from-the-historic-chapel-and-ahwahnee-hotel/feed/ 2 Lynne-Dee + Brian – A Yosemite Wedding at the Ahwahnee Hotel http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/lynne-dee-and-brian-a-yosemite-wedding-at-the-ahwahnee-hotel/ http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/lynne-dee-and-brian-a-yosemite-wedding-at-the-ahwahnee-hotel/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:17:58 +0000 admin http://www.markjanzenphotography.com/?p=598 This is going to be a HUGE post, find a computer with a fast internet connection!  Lynne-Dee and Brian were married in an intimate ceremony on the Wedding Lawn at the stunning Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.  One of the great benefits of being a wedding photographer in the Fresno area is that Yosemite is right in my backyard.  I’ve only had the opportunity to shoot a few weddings in Yosemite, but I have several booked in the future so I’m stoked that that looks like it’s changing!  

Below is a sampling of my favorites from the day, and if you click in the center of the first image, you will see a slideshow with even more images.

Take the time to look – you won’t be sorry!  Thanks!

 

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