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Location Ideas for Engagement Shoots

Our favourite places to photograph couples, from Downtown Los Angeles and El Matador Beach to Antelope Canyon, the Salt Flats, and the Oregon coast.

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The Guide

Los Angeles

LA is big and has a traffic issue, so doing four or five locations in one day takes real planning. When we do it, we plan everything well before.

Downtown LA · Melrose Avenue · Santa Monica Pier · Urban Light at LACMA · Venice Canals · El Matador Beach, Malibu

The Downtown Los Angeles skyline at night with freeway light trails
Santa Monica Pier and its Ferris wheel glowing at blue hour
The Urban Light lamps at LACMA at dusk
A couple kisses on a Venice Canals footbridge
Sea stacks at El Matador Beach, Malibu at sunset
An engagement session on the bluff trail above El Matador Beach

San Francisco

Downtown · Golden Gate Bridge · Palace of Fine Arts · Kirby Cove · The beaches

A couple kisses in front of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset
The Palace of Fine Arts lit up at night
The Golden Gate Bridge framed through a sea cave at Kirby Cove
A couple in the golden hills outside San Francisco at sunset

Arizona

The canyon country around Page is one of the most dramatic backdrops in the American West.

Antelope Canyon · Horseshoe Bend

A couple inside the sandstone curves of Antelope Canyon
A couple overlooks Horseshoe Bend at sunset
A couple walks a red sandstone ridge near Page, Arizona

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

A single, endless white horizon. One location, and it needs nothing else.

A groom leaps beside his bride on the flooded Bonneville Salt Flats
A couple walks hand in hand across the mirror of the Salt Flats
The Milky Way over the Bonneville Salt Flats at night

Death Valley, California

Dunes, cracked earth, and desert light for couples who want something cinematic.

A couple walks a dune ridge at Mesquite Flat in Death Valley
A couple at Zabriskie Point above the Death Valley badlands
A couple at the crest of a sand dune in Death Valley

Oregon

Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor · Lavender Valley · Cape Kiwanda · Latourell Falls

Sea stacks at Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor at golden hour
Lavender rows below Mount Hood in Oregon
A couple on the rocks at Cape Kiwanda as surf crashes below
A couple beneath Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge
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