Big Bear Lake – Nicole & Michael’s Engagment

We always love shooting new places and getting out of LA, so we we’re thrilled with Nicole’s idea of doing their engagement session in Big Bear. Her parents have a beautiful cabin up there, so we started the day with some cozy, natural shots inside before moving outside to show the beautiful surroundings of the mountains. We headed out to find some spots to shoot, trying to avoid the traffic on the main roads and ended up finding a beautiful field at the end of the lake that butted up against a small air strip. It was pretty neat because at one point we had about 6  P-51’s fly right over us so low that we didn’t think they were going to clear the fence! Pretty Crazy. Nicole & Michael were up for anything, jumping, running, snow ball fights, snow angels, oh and they are UNO addicts so we had to get a few of them in action.

After pizza (and wine) in the cabin where we got to know them a little better, we all headed out for some snowball fighting.  They were so much fun to be around and such good hosts. I loved being outside in the quiet snow, although neither of us were prepared for deep snow with our converse and my toes nearly froze off,  but it was so worth the shots.

Thanks again for a great day guys.

Nicole’s parents have the cabin outfitted with all cool rustic cabin decor!

Nothing like a cozy game of Uno next to the fire!

Some close range snowball fights.

Check out the P-51 coming right over the fence at the end of the air strip!