<p>A full wedding day out at Panhandle Charm, start to finish. We began with the girls getting ready and stayed right through the reception, so the gallery reads the way the day actually felt rather than as a list of set-ups.</p><h3>The day</h3><p>Warm August light through the afternoon, then string lights and a dance floor that never really emptied. The first dance frame above is the one they picked for their album.</p>

A summer wedding at Panhandle Charm, photographed from the quiet minutes before the aisle through to the last dance.

Amy & Avery

<p>River Falls is one of our favourite venues in Amarillo, and this July wedding used all of it. Ceremony outside under the trees, portraits in the last good hour of light, then indoors for the reception.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/barclay-2.webp" alt="The Barclays photographed together during their River Falls wedding portraits" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><h3>Portraits</h3><p>We pull the couple away for twenty minutes or so while the light is still soft. It is usually the only quiet stretch of the whole day, and it tends to produce the frames that end up on the wall at home.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/barclay-3.webp" alt="Wedding portrait of the Barclays at River Falls, Amarillo" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/barclay-4.webp" alt="The Barclays during the evening of their River Falls wedding" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A River Falls wedding day covered end to end, from the ceremony under the trees to the reception afterwards.

The Barclays

<p>An October wedding at Panhandle Charm. Fall in the Panhandle gives you low gold light for most of the afternoon, which is about as good as it gets for a ceremony that starts late in the day.</p><h3>The day</h3><p>Covered from getting ready through the reception, with a short break for portraits while the sun was still on the grass.</p>

An autumn celebration at Panhandle Charm, warm light through the afternoon and a full dance floor after dark.

Callie & Chad

<p>Bridal sessions are one of the best things you can add to a wedding package. The dress gets a proper hour of its own, with no timeline to keep and nobody waiting on you, and you get to have a trial run in it before the day itself.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/catie-2.webp" alt="Catie walking through Palo Duro Canyon in her wedding dress" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><h3>In the canyon</h3><p>We shot this one in the last hour before sundown, when the canyon walls go properly red and the light softens off the rock.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/catie-3.webp" alt="Bridal portrait of Catie at golden hour in Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/catie-4.webp" alt="Catie in her wedding dress against the canyon walls at sunset" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

Bridal portraits on the canyon floor, made in the golden hour a few weeks ahead of the wedding day.

Catie

<p>Engagement sessions are where most couples get comfortable in front of a camera, which is the whole point of doing one. By the time the wedding comes around they already know what we are going to ask of them.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/emily-zach-2.webp" alt="Emily and Zach together in the tall grass at Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><h3>Where we shot</h3><p>Down on the canyon floor among the cottonwoods, working back toward the road as the sun dropped.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/emily-zach-3.webp" alt="Engagement portrait of Emily and Zach in the evening light" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/emily-zach-4.webp" alt="Emily and Zach during their Palo Duro Canyon engagement session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

An engagement session in Palo Duro Canyon, late light coming through the cottonwoods and tall grass.

Emily & Zach

<p>A late summer evening in the canyon. We keep these sessions moving and mostly just talk, which is how you get the frames where nobody is thinking about the camera.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/abi-rylan-2.webp" alt="Abi and Rylan walking together through Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><h3>Timing</h3><p>We start about ninety minutes before sundown, which gives enough time to work two or three spots without rushing anyone.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/abi-rylan-3.webp" alt="Engagement portrait of Abi and Rylan in the canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/abi-rylan-4.webp" alt="Abi and Rylan at golden hour in Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

Canyon engagements photographed at sundown, all easy laughing and open country behind them.

Abi & Rylan

<p>May in the canyon is the short window when everything is still green, and it sits against the red walls in a way that does not happen for the rest of the year.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/thang-par-2.webp" alt="Thang and Par together among the spring greenery in Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/thang-par-3.webp" alt="Engagement portrait of Thang and Par on the canyon floor" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/thang-par-4.webp" alt="Thang and Par during their Palo Duro Canyon engagement session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

An engagement session on the canyon floor, spring green running up against the red rock.

Thang & Par

<p>Proposals are the one session we plan entirely with one person. We agree a spot and a time, hide far enough back not to give it away, and shoot the whole thing on a long lens.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/raven-ashton-2.webp" alt="Raven reacting to Ashton proposing in Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><h3>Afterwards</h3><p>Once the shock wears off we come out of hiding and take another twenty minutes of portraits, so the engagement gets covered on the same evening.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/raven-ashton-3.webp" alt="Raven and Ashton together just after the proposal" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/raven-ashton-4.webp" alt="Portrait of Raven and Ashton in the canyon after their proposal" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A surprise proposal in Palo Duro Canyon, photographed from the walk in through to the yes.

Raven & Ashton

<p>Senior sessions run about an hour and usually cover two or three outfit changes. We shoot in the last of the light and let it be their hour rather than ours.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/aubrey-2.webp" alt="Aubrey during her senior session in Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/aubrey-3.webp" alt="Senior portrait of Aubrey in the spring light at the canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/aubrey-4.webp" alt="Aubrey photographed at Palo Duro Canyon for her senior portraits" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A senior session in the canyon, spring wind and an hour that belongs to nobody else.

Aubrey

<p>Not every senior wants the canyon. Downtown Amarillo gives you brick, murals and clean shade, and it photographs completely differently to anything out of town.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/dalee-2.webp" alt="Dalee photographed against a downtown Amarillo wall for her senior session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/dalee-3.webp" alt="Senior portrait of Dalee in downtown Amarillo" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/dalee-4.webp" alt="Dalee during her downtown Amarillo senior session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

Senior portraits in downtown Amarillo, brick walls and the last of the evening light.

Dalee

<p>College seniors get the same hour as high school seniors, usually with a stole or a jersey worked in somewhere. This one ran late into the evening in the canyon.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/sierra-2.webp" alt="Sierra during her West Texas A and M senior session in the canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/sierra-3.webp" alt="Senior portrait of Sierra at Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/sierra-4.webp" alt="Sierra photographed in the canyon for her college senior portraits" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A West Texas A&M senior session photographed in Palo Duro Canyon.

Sierra

<p>Family sessions work best when nobody is asked to sit still for long. We get the one everybody-looking-at-me frame early, then let the kids be kids and shoot around them.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/lemons-2.webp" alt="The Lemons family walking together on the canyon floor" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/lemons-3.webp" alt="Family portrait of the Lemons family in Palo Duro Canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/lemons-4.webp" alt="The Lemons family during their evening session at the canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A family session on the canyon floor, taken in the last half hour of usable light.

The Lemons Family

<p>Maternity sessions are usually best somewhere around thirty two weeks, late enough to show and early enough to still be comfortable walking a trail.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/hutto-2.webp" alt="The Huttos together during their maternity session in the canyon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/hutto-3.webp" alt="Maternity portrait in Palo Duro Canyon at golden hour" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/hutto-4.webp" alt="The Hutto family photographed in Palo Duro Canyon before their first baby" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A maternity session in Palo Duro Canyon, the two of them waiting on their first.

The Huttos

<p>An October family session in Amarillo. We photograph the little ones on their own as well as with everybody, because those are the frames the grandparents ask for.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/crossland-2.webp" alt="The Crossland children photographed together during their family session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/crossland-3.webp" alt="The Crossland family in Amarillo during their fall session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/crossland-4.webp" alt="Family portrait of the Crosslands in Amarillo, Texas" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A fall family session in Amarillo, the kids running and the grass still holding its colour.

The Crosslands

<p>Newborn sessions are best inside the first two weeks, while they still curl up and sleep through most of it. We work slowly, keep the room warm and take as long as the baby needs.</p><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/mccrae-2.webp" alt="Newborn baby McCrae asleep during the session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/mccrae-3.webp" alt="Newborn portrait of baby McCrae in Amarillo" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure><figure><img src="https://camerachicksphotography.cdn.modulify.website/projects/mccrae-4.webp" alt="Baby McCrae photographed with family during the newborn session" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></figure>

A newborn session at home in Amarillo, photographed in the first couple of weeks.

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