Couple standing together at the edge of a misty mountain lake

Selected work from upstate New York

Everything here actually happened

No styled shoots and no stand-ins. Real couples, real evenings, and whatever the weather decided to do that day.

Couple standing together at the edge of a misty mountain lake

Selected work from upstate New York

Everything here actually happened

No styled shoots and no stand-ins. Real couples, real evenings, and whatever the weather decided to do that day.

“We booked one session and ended up with the story of our whole autumn.

Riley found places twenty minutes from our house that we had somehow never stopped at, and the gallery came back looking like a film we would actually sit down and watch.”

— Nora & Sam

Photographer raising her camera toward the viewer at golden hour

Hey, it's Riley —

your upstate New York photographer who turns core memories into art

I work best with people who would rather drive an hour for the right light than stand somewhere convenient. If your idea of a good evening involves getting slightly lost, we will get along.

Couples, elopements and portraits, photographed the way the evening actually went. No shot list, no arranging you into shapes you would never hold on your own.

Bride and groom wading into a lake at night with town lights beyond

If something here looks like the kind of evening you want, tell me what you are planning. I read and answer every message myself.

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