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Bring your camera — or your photographer

Fall Photos on a
Real Texas Farm

The red barn, a vintage truck, pumpkins galore , a corn maze, a highland cow and longhorns in the pasture light. Thirty minutes from Fort Worth, every backdrop your fall photos need is standing in one place.

Photographers welcome • Oct 2 – Nov 8

A Fall Mini-Session Location
Near Fort Worth

Hunting for fall family photo locations that don’t require a permit, a drive to East Texas, or luck with the light? Ruby Creek Family Farm sits 30 minutes northwest of Fort Worth in Aurora, a working farm where the backdrops were built by four generations, not a props department. Families are welcome to shoot their own photos with admission, and professional photographers have a home here too.

Pick your spot

The Backdrops

The red barn at Ruby Creek Family Farm, a classic fall photo backdrop
The red barn
Kids posing in the vintage farm truck filled with pumpkins
The vintage truck
Pumpkin rows arranged around the barn for fall photos
Pumpkin rows
The pumpkin hut stacked with pumpkins of every size
The pumpkin hut
Longhorns grazing in the pasture at golden hour
Longhorns at golden hour
The pond at Ruby Creek reflecting the fall sky
Down by the pond

For families

Come in Your
Matching Flannels

No session fee, no reservation, no rules about who holds the camera. Your regular admission covers your whole crew, and every backdrop on the farm is yours to use, snap the pumpkin portrait, then let the kids actually play in the place you photographed them.

Pro tip from the families who do this every year: shoot first, sand pile second. Nobody stays clean out here for long, and honestly, the after photos are pretty great too.

For photographers

Photographers,
You Have a Home Here

Some farms around DFW turn professional photographers away at the gate. Not this one. If you shoot fall minis, Ruby Creek gives you a working-farm setting your clients can’t get in a city park, and an owner who answers her own phone to work out the details.

Pros are welcome — bring your clients, your gear, and your shot list.

Easy logistics: free parking with easy access for hauling gear, and cash or card at the gate.

Backdrop variety in walking distance: barn, truck, pumpkin displays, pasture, and pond without moving your car.

Call Stacy to set up your sessions — dates, arrangements, and anything special you need for your clients.

Show Us the Shots

Tag @rubycreekfamilyfarm on Instagram or Facebook, we love seeing the farm through your lens, and we share our favorites all season long.

Photographers: ask for Stacy to plan your sessions

The Photos Will Outlast
the Pumpkin

Make a day of it, shoot the pumpkin patch, then ride out to meet the longhorns.