Abby & Travis’s Big Meadows engagement session was my last session of 2020, and what a way to go out!

Abby & Travis met in high school math class. In-class talking turned into Travis supporting Abby at her basketball games, which turned into going to Young Life events together, which turned into them finally dating. Together they love being in the outdoors and hanging out with their friends and family.

Travis proposed while taking pictures together at an apple orchard, and since then they’ve been enjoying planning their wedding and life together.

They had a hard time picking their session location because they had too many favorite options! After a while, we finally narrowed it down to one of my favorite locations ever: Big Meadows up on Skyline Drive. We met up just before the sunset and took advantage of the last light down in the lower part of the meadow.

They changed into dressier outfits and we followed the paths up to the top of the meadow, where we were treated with amazing sunset mountain views. Just as the sun set behind the mountains, we got some of my favorite photos ever looking back down on the meadow.

I absolutely loved getting to know Abby and Travis during their engagement session! They were so sweet and adorable to each other, and it was so easy to photograph their love. I can tell it’s going to be even more visible later this year when I photograph their wedding!

I think my favorite part of the session has to be Travis’s astonishment of the deer. If you’ve never been to Big Meadows, it is absolutely filled with deer to the point of overcrowding. We tried to stay far away from them and actually ended up needing to retreat when they started approaching us. Travis couldn’t believe that they were so calm and so close to us. He’s a big hunter and he took pictures on his phone to send to his hunting buddies to show how close he got to them. I sneakily got a photo of him doing this at the very end of the session so we could all remember their first time with the deer at Big Meadows, and it’s one of my favorites from the gallery haha!

I can’t wait to see these two again for their wedding this spring. Congratulations to Abby and Travis!!

Check out another Skyline Drive engagement session: Allie and Cam’s Blackrock Summit session!

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