John & Maree - Engagements on the Bonneville Salt Flats

I'm so excited to finally post these! We went out to the Salt Flats in Utah's West Desert with certain expectations. As seems to always happen, nature had something totally different in mind. Instead of a calm, blue sky type of day we got wind, wind, and more wind. The sky was blue one minute. then yellow or black the next. To their credit, John and Maree just went with it and had a good time. It turned out to be a bit of a waste of money for the hair stylist as that was ruined the second Maree stepped out of the car but the wind made for dynamic, fun, stylized photos and in the end, that's the goal anyway, isn't it?
We brought a whole bunch of water balloons in their wedding colors as well as a candlelight picnic. We used the balloons but couldn't get the picnic set up in the wind. Most of the time I used either one off-camera speedlight on a stand or totally natural light. You'll notice the point at the end when I added a second speedlight with a small honeycomb grid as an accent light.
This shoot has a much more commercial feel than most of what I've done before. It seems to be a trend in the way I've been shooting lately. (See Ixchels' Bridals)
I had a hard time cutting down the numbers so it's a big gallery. I hope you like them!