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California Wedding Photography Journal — Notes from the field

Stories, ideas, and quiet observations from weddings and the work around them.

Mara and Daniel — walnut orchard, Santa Ynez Valley, late September

Real Weddings · Santa Ynez Valley

The long, golden afternoon

A late-September wedding in a walnut orchard her grandfather planted forty years ago. Sixty guests, borrowed chairs, and vows nobody needed a microphone for.

14 June 2026

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