Congratulations to Carey & Leah on their recent engagement! These Native Texans wanted to have the Engagement Session in a field of bluebonnets! So, as a Dripping Springs Engagement Photographer, I took up the “challenge”. They know how much I fuss over finding the best bluebonnet field every year so I knew just where to go. I had been scouting for over a month and watched the flowers mature over that time.

Here are 5 things to consider when choosing your Bluebonnet Patch.

1. Access. – Meaning is it on public or private property. Just because the bluebonnets are bluer on the other side of that fence doesn’t mean you should cross it. For your safety, please stay in public places when photographing Bluebonnet Portraits of all kinds. This is Texas, y’all.
2. Time of Day – The best time of day to photograph bluebonnet engagement sessions or any session is during golden hour which is the hour before sunset or after sunrise. One caveat to this is consider your background. Does it have a lot of trees blocking that late afternoon sunshine? It the answer is yes, then you can get away with shooting earlier than golden hour. This was a slightly overcast afternoon about 1 1/2-2 hours before sunset.
3. Safety – Long are the days when you can just pull over on the side of the Highway 35 and plop your kids down in a patch of bluebonnets. The speed limits are a lot faster than they used to be and there are more cars on the road. So admire all those thick patches of bluebonnets, but find yourself a back road with good visibility in the distance or hardly any traffic on it and get your shots there. My location here was near a parking lot.
4. Timing during the Season – Bluebonnet patches can last for up to a month between March and April, but you want to schedule your session on the earlier side and not the later. Once Bluebonnet plants go to seed they won’t be that beautiful sea of blue anymore. Also go early before all the grasses and weeds grow tall enough to tower over the blooms.
5. Size – The bigger the better. Is the Bluebonnet patch large enough for what you’re looking for as a backdrop? Are you doing product photography and shooting straight down? This doesn’t need a large patch. Are you capturing your little kids? This can be a medium sized patch. Are you photographing a couple, older kids, or a family? Then you probably need a field full of bluebonnets so you can create that illusion of an ocean of bluebonnets.

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