Tal & Deanna’
An oak with a canopy the size of a room, and a road out to it. Sound on.

Away from the lawn.
Tal and Deanna were married at Calamigos Ranch, and their portraits were made out on the ranch road under one of the older oaks, the kind with a canopy wide enough to stand a whole wedding party under.
Their film runs a little over eight minutes and takes its time. The oaks are the reason to walk away from the ceremony site here, and it is worth the ten minutes it costs.
Notes on the place.
Calamigos is large, and most couples never leave the site they booked. The ranch roads that connect the properties run under mature oaks the whole way, and five minutes of walking gets you a completely different film: dirt, dappled canopy, and no event infrastructure in frame. We always ask for that walk. It is the cheapest upgrade available on this property and almost nobody plans for it.


