The Lafayette Hotel, Colorado: A Walk Through a Town Hotel
A small Front Range town hotel walked in the order a wedding day uses it — rooms, public spaces, street, mountains.
Lionsgate Event Center, Colorado: A Garden Made Against the Climate
An irrigated garden venue on the Colorado plain — and why every scrap of its shade had to be made rather than found.
Spruce Mountain Ranch, Colorado: The Light Through a Ranch Day
A Colorado ranch between plain and foothills, taken hour by hour through a wedding day.
Bella Collina, Monument: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A venue on Colorado's high plain — hard sun, no shade, constant wind, and four ways round all three.
Windy Point Camp, Colorado: Field Notes on a High Mountain Camp
A mountain camp at over eight thousand feet — thin air, constant wind, and shade that has to be found.
The Woodland Park Zoo, Colorado: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A high-altitude Colorado zoo with a mountain beyond it — and the one frame that combination gives.
The Argo Gold Mill, Idaho Springs: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A historic gold mill built down a Colorado mountainside — dramatic where it counts, and difficult in four ways.
The Four Seasons Vail: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A resort hotel in a high Colorado valley — where one question about the sun governs the whole schedule.
The Sonnenalp Hotel, Vail: A Walk Through an Alpine Hotel
An alpine-style hotel at eight thousand feet, walked in the order a wedding day uses it.
The Little Nell, Aspen: A Hotel at the Bottom of a Mountain
A hotel at the foot of an Aspen mountain — sited for the lift, which decides its light.