Malorie + Logan
Upper Kananaskis Lake Engagement Photographer

It’s always such an honour and a pleasure to photograph another photographer, particularly one as talented as Malorie of Malorie Reiter Photography.

Just as summer was wrapping up we met on the shores of Upper Kananaskis Lake for a couple session. The forecast was pleasant for that day but positively winter the following. The leaves on the brush had begun to change and were somewhere between the green and yellow hues. The skies seemed to mimic it as the last of the Oregon wildfires smoke hang low in the valleys, creating sun rays around the mountains as the last of the daylight wrapped around peaks. The mountains around Upper Kananaskis Lake that usually starkly mark the horizon, were instead rough outlines in one direction, and somewhat of mirages in another.

We meandered across the dam by the Interlakes Day Use area with the full intention of making it to the peninsula looking towards Sarrail Ridge. As we made our way we crossed one mound of berry filled bear scat, then another. We made plenty of noise, and enjoyed the calm inlet of water and the numerous driftwood and tree stumps that once stood tall before the lake system was changed by man. Then another mound of bear scat. Our intentions were abandoned as we decided chasing light and mayhaps a bear preparing for hibernation was not a priority and returned to the boat launch, Tucker their dog so delighted about the whole venture despite a strenuous hike the day before.

Malorie and Logan sat on the lakeshore, looking west towards where the sun had just disappeared. The light had transitioned from a warm autumnal palette to the cool deep blue and teal of the upcoming winter. We talked about the year, about weddings, about plans. We enjoyed an area that earlier in the day had been teeming with people desperate to escape the city, and was now practically all our own.

Then the light was gone. They returned to their campground, and I to my home in Canmore.