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Some sessions have a built-in advantage: the location is already personal before the first frame is taken. Savanna's senior portraits were done at her family's Corkins Lodge at the Brazos — deep in the pine forest of Northern New Mexico, where the Rio Brazos runs cold through the canyon and the cliffs rise above everything.
Those cliffs are not just beautiful. If you've seen Marvel's Logan, you've already seen this land. Parts of the film's forest scenes were shot here, in these same pines, under this same canopy. It's the kind of place that feels cinematic because it is.
We started inside the lodge, then moved into the forest — through the pines and the tall grass, past the river already going quiet and still with the first November freeze. The water wasn't fully iced over, but close. You can see it in the photographs: that particular gray-white stillness that only happens when a mountain river is deciding whether to keep moving.
By the time the sun dropped behind the ridge, we were in the field with fairy lights. Then one final frame by the water — Savanna holding the lights in the blue dark, the Brazos Cliffs glowing deep red behind her, the river holding the last of the sky.
Young woman in black t-shirt and jeans smiling while sitting relaxed in a warmly lit wooden room.
Young woman in striped off-shoulder top smiling in a sunlit forest meadow with tall grasses and green trees.
Young woman in striped off-shoulder top standing in sunlit field with tall grass and trees.
Young woman in striped off-shoulder top and jeans sitting on a rock in a sunlit forest meadow.
Young woman in off-shoulder striped top standing in sunlit forest meadow holding wildflowers.
Smiling young woman in blue off-shoulder top sitting on log in natural outdoor setting.
Black and white portrait of a young woman in an off-shoulder top, smiling outdoors in a sunlit forest setting.
Young woman in blue off-shoulder top and jeans sitting on rocks near a stream surrounded by evergreen trees.
Young woman in blue off-shoulder top and jeans sitting on rocks outdoors with lush green trees in background.
Young woman in off-shoulder dress sitting on rock in golden sunset light surrounded by tall grass and trees.
Young woman in off-shoulder top and jeans standing on a boulder surrounded by tall pine trees in a forest.
A young woman sits in tall grass at dusk, holding glowing fairy lights in her hands, with bokeh trees in the background.
Young woman with long wavy hair sits outdoors in golden sunset light, wearing an off-shoulder dark dress in a field.
Young woman in off-shoulder striped top and jeans standing in golden field at sunset.
Woman holding glowing fairy lights by a mountain lake at dusk with red rocky peaks and forest backdrop.

 

Quiet Light by the Amoras photographs senior portraits, families, and weddings across Northern New Mexico — Tierra Amarilla, Chama, Taos, Santa Fe, and beyond.

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