Ali, Ted and I met at the Phoenix Botanical Gardens for an engagement portrait session a few days ago.  The weather has not turned too hot yet, but the sun was still fairly high in the sky (it wasn’t yet sweet light time) and Ted remarked on that as we were shooting.  “I thought the sun would be too high and we’d have to wait for it to drop a bit.”  And he’d be correct were it not for the great tree cover in the gardens.  There are so many places to hide from the sun and use it for a back light that we were able to get a lot of great shots and still get them off to enjoy the rest of the their evening (which included a baseball game for Ted).  Portraits do not have to be difficult, painful or even long.

These are a few of my favorite images from the shoot.  There were a lot of them, but I’ll post my favorites here and I will let them speak for themselves.

It’s like the sunset lasted for an hour and a half.  Everything was simply gold.

Engagement portrait photography by Jared Platt, Platt Photography

Location: Phoenix Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, Arizona