3 Important Reasons to Reserve Your Estes Park Family Photography Now
Would you like to capture your family photography in Estes Park this year? Maybe you’re here visiting Rocky Mountain National Park or you live in Denver and love the majestic mountains Estes Park has to offer. Either way, nothing beats family photography in a place that has all the iconic Rocky Mountain backdrops one could hope for.
If this is your wish for this year, make sure you that you book your family photography sooner rather than later. And here are three reasons to make booking your Estes Park Family Photography a priority.
Reason #1: Family Photos in Estes Park Are Seasonal
Although Estes Park is beautiful year-round and largely accessible most days of the year, there’s no denying that family photography is seasonal in the area. Most people want to visit Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park during the summer. This goes for locals and visitors alike. Just like other national parks, Rocky Mountain National Park is a busy place during the summer and welcomes the vast majority of its visitors during that time. Visitors like to get family photos done in the area, so demand for family photos goes up.
Estes Park is beautiful during the winter, but the very thing that makes it so beautiful in that season, the snow, can also be a logistical issue. Estes Park gets a lot of snow. Snow can mean closed roads and inaccessible locations. This is especially true in the national park. Those roads are not plowed at the same rate as public roads that people depend upon to get to work and their homes. So often when a big snow storm hits, the roads in the park become very difficult to traverse. Even the most experienced winter drivers will have difficulties.
What does this mean for you? Well, more demand means less supply. Because the vast majority of family photography in the park is concentrated during the warmer months, the demand for photographers is concentrated to those months as well. And that means that family photographers that work in the Estes Park area book up early.
Reason #2: Family Photographers for Estes Park are Limited
To make matters worse, Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park are a couple hours drive from downtown Denver. This makes this area out of range for many Denver area photographers. As a result, the amount of photographers that regularly photograph at the park, are skilled at doing so, and are willing to do so are limited. You want someone that is familiar with the park, knows the best locations to photograph at, and knows how to navigate the permitting system at the park. Photographing in that area isn’t for the unskilled or faint at heart. It is difficult to photograph in the mountains. Lighting is completely different. Timing is completely different than the plains. And the park area is vast, so you want your photographer to know where they are going and what they are doing. Long story short, experienced photographers for Estes Park are limited.
Reason #3: Photo Permits and Timed Entry at Rocky Mountain National Park
Most often family photography in Estes Park means family photography in Rocky Mountain National Park. Photographing on federal land is just like working with the federal government at other times, a headache. To make this easier on yourself, make sure you are working with a photographer that knows how to navigate the logistics of it all. It also means that you’ll want to give the photographer time to plan ahead, so that they can get everything lined up. So make sure to reach out early, so that they can make sure and have enough time to do all that is required.
Why You Should Get Family Photos Done in Estes Park Anyway
Even though getting family photos done in Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park require some forethought and planning, it is still definitely worth it. The backdrops are unmatched. They are breathtaking. And they are completely and entirely worth the effort.
Sara Herkes is a maternity, newborn, family, and senior photographer based in Longmont, CO. She serves the the Denver Metro Area, the Colorado Rockies, and the Northern Front Range and captures your pregnancy amidst the Colorado wilderness. Learn more about her services here.
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