Edmond & Lauren
Golden hills at dusk. Press play, sound on.
The way it felt.
Hummingbird Nest Ranch earns its light. The hills go from pale gold to amber in the last hour, and Edmond and Lauren's day was built around it, vows in the open air, the valley falling away behind them, the kind of backdrop you don't have to dress up.
This film leans on what was already there. Real voices. The wind moving through dry grass. Two people who couldn't stop looking at each other. We stayed close, kept out of the way, and cut the day the way it felt, unhurried, warm, certain.
On Hummingbird Nest Ranch.
Hummingbird Nest Ranch sits in the Santa Susana Mountains near Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles, a 1920s Spanish estate of courtyards, arched colonnades and open hillsides, with the Santa Susana rocks glowing behind it. It has one of the most reliable golden hours in Southern California, low clean light that holds long enough to plan the portraits around. We have filmed at Hummingbird Nest Ranch more than once, and we know where the day looks best, from first look to last dance.
Edmond and Lauren married at Hummingbird Nest Ranch, a 1920s Spanish estate in the Santa Susana Mountains near Simi Valley. As their Hummingbird Nest Ranch wedding videographer, we followed the light from terracotta courtyards to open hills and one of Southern California's longest golden hours.
