Sunrise Engagement Photos at Dillon Reservoir and Sapphire Point | Chelsea + Gerardo

I consider myself a night owl more than anything else, but when I had the opportunity to take Chelsea and Gerardos sunrise engagement photos at Dillon Reservoir (aka Lake Dillon) waking up at 3am was most definitely an ‘aint no thang‘ moment. I jumped in the car and headed towards the mountains! When we all arrived at Lake Dillon around 5am the moon was still out and you couldn’t even see the water from the parking lot. We headed towards their boat, jumped on board and set sail (probably not the right terminology since it definitely wasn’t a sailboat, but I’m gonna stick with it anyway!) Now, those of you that are familiar with the Dillon, Breckenridge, Keystone, Summit County area know that it is almost always a zoo of people. In fact, Chelsea and Gerardo had gone out on their boat the evening prior and it was packed full of other people during sunset. Since we beat the sun there and hit the water early we had the entirety of Dillon Reservoir to ourselves. It was a serene moment boating across the lake with these two as we watched the sun rise up and light up the mountains with the most gorgeous pink light and pixar-esque clouds. It felt like something from a story book and was the most incredible backdrop for these two and their engagement photos!

I’m quite the uncoordinated human being, but I’m proud to say that no one fell in the lake and there were no casualties aside from my heart and soul bursting out of my actual body every time I looked at the back of my camera. Every photo I took of these two was just complete and actual magic, and I’m not saying this to toot my own horn or anything – I’m saying this because their chemistry is off the c h a r t s! If it weren’t for them passionately wrapping each other up in their arms and just a littttle bit of breakfast beer (thanks Bud Light) it’s safe to say we all would’ve frozen our butts off on that boat! Our adventure didn’t stop there, however! After boating (not sailing, boating – I’m getting with the program now) around Lake Dillon for a while we (aka Gerardo) parked the boat back at the dock, jumped in the car and headed towards one of my favorite Summit County locations, Sapphire Point! I have photographed many intimate weddings and elopements at this iconic location in Dillon, but never engagement photos so it was definitely a treat to explore the area for their engagement pictures. We said hello to what felt like a billion little chipmunks and finished up their engagement session in the pretty morning sunlight. It was truly the best and I would wake up at any hour of any day or night over and over and over again for a engagement pictures this epic!

Engagement photos at Dillon Reservoir by Sharee Davenport, Photographer