The Motown Museum, Detroit: One Frame and How It Is Made
A museum housed in a small Detroit residential building, where the atmosphere and the music are the attraction.
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Venue Guides
We are writing a photographer’s field guide to every wedding venue we would happily work in, city by city. Each guide covers the light, the timing and the frames that work – and says plainly where we are drawing on craft rather than on having shot there.
The Idaho Botanical Garden, Boise: A Walk Through the Site
A high desert Boise garden walked in the order a wedding day uses it — beds, shade, structures and foothills.
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The Farmhouse Inn: Four Ways Out of the Open-Ground Problem
A farmhouse property in the valley outside Whitefish, Montana, with open ground and mountain views.
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The Omaha Children’s Museum: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
A children's museum in downtown Omaha with interactive exhibits, saturated colour and large open exhibit halls, available for evening private events.
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Overhills Mansion: Who This Venue Suits, and Who It Doesn’t
A late nineteenth-century mansion on wooded grounds in Catonsville, west of Baltimore, run as a dedicated wedding and event venue.
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The Hotel St. Francis: A Walk-Through of Santa Fe’s Oldest Hotel
Santa Fe's oldest hotel, a block from the Plaza, rebuilt in 1923 after fire, with a high-ceilinged lobby, candlelit interiors and a street-side portal.
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The Foundation Hotel, Detroit: Field Notes on a Civic Conversion
A hotel in a converted historic Detroit civic building, with stylish contemporary interiors inside a period shell.
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The ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden: Glasshouses in a Dry Climate
A botanic garden on the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, with glass conservatories, formal gardens and desert planting.
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Hotel Saint Louis: A Walk-Through of an 1893 Union Trust Building
Louis Sullivan's Union Trust Building of 1893, converted to a hotel, with the terracotta ornament and structural expression that made Sullivan's reputation.
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The New York Public Library: Photographing a Building Made of Marble
A 1911 Beaux-Arts library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, with marble halls, grand staircases and the lions outside.
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