The Dallas Museum of Art: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A major art museum in the Dallas Arts District — lit, entirely deliberately, for paintings rather than for faces.
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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 Dallas Arboretum: The Light Through the Day
A botanical garden on the shore of White Rock Lake — a designed landscape, planted for succession.
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The Kirkwood Civic Center, Cedar Rapids: Field Notes
A purpose-built conference and event centre in Cedar Rapids — competent, capable, and photographically neutral.
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The Brucemore Mansion, Cedar Rapids: A Walk Through the Building
An 1880s Queen Anne mansion on a wooded estate inside Cedar Rapids — irregular, gabled and deliberately picturesque.
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The National Czech & Slovak Museum: The Venue’s Own Logic
A museum of Czech and Slovak immigration in Cedar Rapids — a building that was physically lifted and moved after a flood.
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The Fox Ridge Winery, Raymond: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A winery in the Cedar Valley — a cold-climate vineyard, which is a different photographic object from a Californian one.
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The Byrnes Park, Raymond: The Light Through the Day
A municipal park near Waterloo — mature hardwoods, open lawn, and a day with a clear shape to it.
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The University of Iowa Memorial Union: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A university union on the bank of the Iowa River — an institutional building with a waterfront on one side and a campus on the other.
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The Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A convention centre on the Mississippi at Bettendorf — where the river runs east and west instead of north and south.
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The Englert Theatre, Iowa City: A Walk Through the Building
A 1912 vaudeville house in downtown Iowa City, rebuilt after fire and restored — a theatre that keeps working.
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