The Pikes Peak Center: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A performing arts centre in downtown Colorado Springs — a building that excludes daylight on purpose.
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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 Pinery at the Hill, Colorado Springs: One Frame, and How It Is Made
An event venue on a rise above Colorado Springs, with a fourteen-thousand-foot mountain filling the western view.
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The Cheyenne Canon Inn: The Venue’s Own Logic
A 1920s house at the mouth of a canyon in Colorado Springs — a position that decides the light and the air.
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The Broadmoor: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A 1918 grand resort at the foot of the Front Range — Mediterranean Revival at a scale that decides everything.
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The Garden of the Gods Club: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A club beside the Garden of the Gods, with vertical red sandstone one way and a fourteen-thousand-foot peak the other.
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The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando: The Light Through the Day
A large resort near Orlando with a lake, mature subtropical planting and a very high summer sun.
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The SeaWorld Orlando: Field Notes
A marine park in Orlando — aquarium glass, open lagoons, and a park that is busy at almost every hour.
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The Universal Orlando Resorts: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A themed resort complex in Orlando, where each hotel commits to a design idiom and none of them is neutral.
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The Walt Disney World Resorts: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A very large themed resort complex near Orlando — and a venue where the rules matter more than the light.
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The Casa Monica Hotel, St. Augustine: One Frame, and How It Is Made
An 1888 Spanish Renaissance Revival hotel in St. Augustine — and the only one of Flagler's three still working as a hotel.
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