Fifth Photography by Norm Roberts V

Elopements in the great outdoors can be quite the adventure. From bear activity to surprise storms, nature can be a challenging wedding venue at times. That’s where years of experience both in elopements and in exploring the outdoors comes in. I can almost always find us a Plan B that will still get you the experience you wanted. Or if worse comes to worse we can change the location, date, or both to make your big day happen. All without nickel and diming you.

Is your perfect elopement a sunset session, grabbing dinner, star photos at 10pm, napping, then doing a 14 mile hike up a mountain for you sunrise ceremony? Maybe you want to start in Yosemite for sunrise and then drive to Sequoia for sunset? How about a three day backpacking wedding in the mountains? These are all weddings I did in 2025. No special charges or additional fees. This is just what I’ll do if it means we are going to get some killer photos. So even your plans are a little more tame, you can rest assured I’m going to make sure you are going to have some killer photos.

The last thing you want after hiking ten miles out into the wilderness for your mountain top wedding is to discover your photographer didn’t bring an extra battery. I carry a full array of professional grade lenses paired with a flagship full frame camera. As well as a backup camera, lenses, batteries, memory cards etc. I also bring professional lighting tools for when the sun just isn’t cooperating. So no matter what conditions we face your photos will be stellar.

My biggest pet peeve in the photo industry is photo limits. Is the photographer adding more duplicates to hit the number? Or are they cutting great photos because you didn’t get the better package. Either way it is terrible. I select out every shot you want and toss out the duplicates you wouldn’t. Then every single photo is edited to perfection. No random cars or hikers left behind.

A photographer’s worst nightmare is a memory card corrupting and losing a clients photos. This has never happened to me but it haunts me still. So to counter that I only shoot with cameras that feature multiple memory cards. When I get your photos home they go onto a professional NAS server as well as a separate manual backup hard drive. your edited wedding photos live on your web gallery forever. I have every RAW file from every wedding I have photographed all the way back to 2009. So if you ever need your photos sent again I got you.