The Longos are a Jackson Hole family. This has been their home for five years. And at the end of this year, they’re leaving. Her husband’s job is taking them somewhere new, and before that happens, they were “looking to capture the magic of Jackson that has brought us so much joy the past five years.”
They’d just had their second daughter a month before our session. A newborn and a toddler and a couple who fell in love with this valley and built a life in it. We met at Schwabacher Landing, their first time there, which says something about living in a place. You save the best parts for later because you think you have time. And then the calendar tells you otherwise.
The autumn sunrise was everything . The Tetons reflected in the water. Two little girls, one full of smiles and the other busy noticing everything. Mom and Dad standing in a landscape they’ve driven past a thousand times but often too busy to stand still in. The joy that comes with young kids, the laughter, the chaos, the way a toddler will not look at the camera and you just let it go because that’s the truth of it.
This wasn’t about documenting a vacation. This was about saying goodbye to a place they love, with the people they love most, before everything changes.
For the Years Ahead
Courteney chose a handmade album, and when she saw it for the first time she said, “It’s so, so amazing.” That album is going with them when they leave Jackson. It’s going to sit on a shelf in a new house in a new place, and on the hard nights, the ones where they miss the mountains and the life they had here, they’ll open it. And it will all come back.
Your Jackson Hole Story: Book a Discovery Call
If your family is in Jackson Hole and you’ve been putting off portraits because you think there’s always next summer, there might not be. Visit jennaboshart.com and book a discovery call. I’d love to hear your story.
