Some of the best parts of the High Country are the ones you’d never know to look for. A granite shelf catching the last light. A swim hole hidden between the trees. A quiet alpine lake. A track you’ve driven past a dozen times without knowing what’s at the other end. After years of living, working and exploring up here, I’ve collected a few favourites. Not an itinerary. Not a tour. Just a chance to experience this place a little differently — shaped around the things you actually love doing, with someone who knows where to look and when to be there. And while you’re busy enjoying it, I’ll quietly take care of remembering it. Explore like a local. Bright + the Victorian High Country. If this feels like your kind of way to experience the High Country, comment EXPLORE and I’ll send you the details. #BrightVictoria #VictorianHighCountry #MountBuffalo #VisitBright

“WAIT!… You can get married like this?” She said “surprise me”… and he understood the assignment. The only thing Jana chose for her wedding was the dress (Inca by @grace_loves_lace) Everything else? Total mystery. Four days of back-to-back blindfolded surprise adventures through the Rocky Mountains — snowboarding, chalet hopping snowshoeing, hot tubbing, road-tripping — and on the final morning… the greatest surprise of all. Blindfold on. Headphones in. With the sun rising and clearance to drive down the runway at YLW. Mitch waited in his wedding kit, beside a tidy little Robinson R-44 A quick flight over the Okanagans, a snow-covered peak she picked herself, and the sweetest vow exchange with the world at their feet. Because if tradition doesn’t fit vibe, wrap your wedding in an adventure. 🚁 Tag the person you’d blindfold for a wedding like this. 📌 Save this for when you need to convince them it’s a good idea. 💌 Share it with someone who’d skip tradition for an adventure. 📷 Bride’s gown: The Inca Gown by @graceloveslace — effortless romance and all-over lace, made for wild-hearted brides. 🚁 Helicopter: R-44 from @okanaganmountainhelicopters — the ride that made mountaintop vows possible.

🚨 STOP SCROLLING - PT 2 You are not ready for this. I wasn’t even ready for this. In 18 years photographing love stories, I’ve never had this happen. When El told Sam I needed an adventurous couple for a MTB content shoot at Falls Creek — a place that means the world to him and El. What he didn’t know was that El and I had been secretly planning for her to propose. She’d staked signs all the way along the new Skyline trail — each one building to the moment she’d drop her bike (and a knee) by the final “I DO.” He said yes, of course. Then he paused… popped a cheeky smile and told her “I actually brought a ring too.” Unprompted. Unplanned. He was actually planning to propose as sok. As the sun started to set — same day, same mountain. He figured the shoot would be the perfect opportunity, especially knowing there would already be a photographer there. So yeah — she proposed. He proposed. Two separate plans. Same day. None of us saw it coming. *If this gives you them vibes — tag away #DoubleProposal #TheyBothSaidYes #ElAndSam #FallsCreek #AdventureLove #ProposalStory #SkylineTrail #mtblife #surpriseproposal #adventureweddingphotographer

🚨 STOP SCROLLING You are not ready for this. I wasn’t even ready for this. In 18 years photographing love stories, I’ve never had this happen. When El told Sam I needed an adventurous couple for a MTB content shoot at Falls Creek — a place that means the world to him and El. What he didn’t know was that El and I had been secretly planning for her to propose. She’d staked signs all the way along the new Skyline trail — each one building to the moment she’d drop her bike (and a knee) by the final “I DO.” He said yes, of course. Then he paused… popped a cheeky smile and told her “I actually brought a ring too.” Unprompted. Unplanned. He was actually planning to propose as soon as the sun started to set — same day, same mountain. He figured the shoot would be the perfect opportunity, especially knowing there would already be a photographer there. So yeah — she proposed. He proposed. Two separate plans. Same day. None of us saw it coming. Swipe through — and stay tuned for Part 2: Sam’s sunset proposal. *If this gives you them vibes — tag away #DoubleProposal #TheyBothSaidYes #ElAndSam #FallsCreek #AdventureLove #ProposalStory #SkylineTrail #mtblife #surpriseproposal #adventureweddingphotographer

Peilin + Andy ⸻ On the eve of your wedding, in the most sacred of spaces amongst ancient granite. Together we created something far more powerful than “just another couples session”. This was ceremony. It wasn’t just intentional — it was devotional. You held space for each other’s presence, for love and for the kind of quiet honesty that emerges only when you stop performing and simply be. You spoke your desires aloud to the wind, locked eyes until the world dropped away and bathed one another in sound and stillness. In turn the universe delivered a sunset so rich and reverent it truly felt like a blessing. There are some stories that can’t just be captured — they need to be channeled. This was one of them. I’ll forever hold deep gratitude to you both for sharing this space with me. #adventureweddingphotographer #adventureelopementphotographer #soundbath #ceremony ⸻