Creating resort photography for the experience that Mar Monte Hotel offers their guests? Yes, please! Seriously y’all, sometimes I cannot believe that this is my job! Being hired to create this content for Mar Monte Hotel was a total daydream come true!

Mar Monte is a boutique-style hotel tucked between the Santa Ynes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. If you are thinking “luxurious view where you can enjoy local experiences and dig your toes into the sand“. You pretty much hit the nail on the head! Mar Monte embodies the spirit of the Santa Barbara style and enjoys providing their guests with a “golden-state-of-mind” experience!

So how do you capture resort photography that is an experience? You bring along your husband and your two boys (fur babies!) and you re-create those experiences and the genuine fun that they deliver. While of course capturing every second!

It goes a little like this…

Instagram-worthy cocktails at the bar of Costa Kitchen (the hotel’s onsite restaurant & bar) paired with prosciutto & pears before a dinner of Scottish King Salmon finished with a chocolate tart for dessert! Then a spin around town on one of Mar Monte’s signature bikes to enjoy the streets & local sights of downtown. Want to hit fast forward and get right to the luxurious relaxation part of your stay? You can grab a bottle of Chardonnay from Costa Kitchen, a sourdough charcuterie board, and a heaping bowl of seasonal fresh fruit garnished with mint and lay out a picnic blanket for you and your sweetheart on Santa Barbara beach.

If you’ve been bit by the travel bug and you want to take in some more Santa Barbara views while you’re here, you can check out this post!

Thank you so much for stopping by, until next time..
Stay Inspired!
Love, Jana