Klamath Falls Engagement | Victoria & Jason | Southern Oregon Wedding Photographer

Round 1, Toyota 4Runner vs Klamath Falls. Klamath Falls wins. Round 2, 4Runner vs Klamath Falls, weather wins.

I tried to head down to Klamath Falls in February to shoot some engagement photos for Victoria and Jason but my Toyota 4Runner had different plans. The 4Runner thought it would be really fun to get a new alternator so it decided to quit working on the side of Highway 97 in the dark, in the snow, at roughly 4am, because broken. Thanks to AAA I was able to get towed to the nearest repair shop, but here’s the catch. The nearest repair shop was technically Oakridge because of my location. Oakridge was 46 miles away, Bend was 47, and Klamath Falls was just over 50. So the tow truck came and took me where I didn’t want to go, at a time that I didn’t want to go there, for reasons I wasn’t too happy about, on a day where I wanted to be in Klamath Falls. That was Round 1.

Round 2 started out with my good friend Chris King and I meeting up at the bright young hour of 5am to head to Southern Oregon and make a few stops along the way. Chris is a super talented photographer and just wanted to hang out with me on an adventure, plus I needed a lifestyle model for a concept shoot for Aurora Photos (an amazing lifestyle stock agency that I just started shooting for earlier this year). If you do that Instagram thingy, go check out @christophmikey and be super inspired, his work is sooo good! Anyway, we explored, we shot photos, we went to Crater Lake in a blizzard and couldn’t even find the water (it may be the world’s deepest but nobody ever mentions how sneaky that lake is, easily the world’s best spy-lake, absolutely never saw it even though we were right there), and then we made our way to Klamath Falls for some engagement photos. The weather on my phone said clouds and sun off and on, the weather in the sky said wind and snow. the snow said cold and the wind said it hates me.

So, we drove to California, literally, and it looked much nicer there. We then headed to my client’s huge ranch and started shooting engagement photos in a light rain. The rain stopped, the sky was moody and cool, and we hiked up a really cool rim rock with an epic view. Photos worked well, everything was ok, and then we had a long drive home.

Until next time Klamath Falls…