Tres Alamos Ranch

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Paul Van Helden
One of the nice things about being a wedding photographer is that I get to see and experience some incredible venues. In Tucson, many of these places exist in virtual anonymity. Only if you seek, will you find them.
 
In Tubac, the Tres Alamos Ranch enjoys a similar disposition. Even if you are the adventurous type that likes to meander down dusty dirt roads and happen to stumble upon its’ gate, you would never imagine the magnificent world that lies within.
 
You must have a prior invitation or appointment to enter. After you have passed through the gate, you still have a few miles of mesquite trees and dirt road, before making it to your destination.
 
Comprised of about two-thousand acres, the ranch is complete with horses and cattle. The main building is fairly new and exquisitely designed with much of the old southwest character, we all love.
 
 The Tres Alamos Ranch is now open, to those who would like to plan an event there. The wedding I photographed last month, was only the second ever to be held on its’ premises. As beautiful as this place is, I doubt  it will be the last.  

Back Patio Entrance

About Paul Van Helden

Paul Van Helden is an active, wedding, portrait, event, engagement, real estate, still life, nature and landscape photographer, based in Tucson Arizona. He has worked professionally for close to twenty years. Nature photographer Fred Dodd Jr. introduced him to photography in 1982. Later, Paul studied photography at Dean College and learned to photograph weddings under the tutelage of Craig Roberts Studio, in Franklin, Massachusetts. After working as a freelance wedding specialist for five years, he started his own wedding photography business in Bellingham, Massachusetts in 1995. He succeeded to shoot hundreds of weddings, throughout New England. All the while, years of zoning changes were slowly degrading the quality of life where he lived. After a hard fought campaign, with the local planning board, fell on deaf ears, in 2004 he decided to move to Tucson, where other family members had already relocated to, in previous years.
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