The Lightner Museum, St. Augustine: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A museum in a former 1888 hotel in St. Augustine — including the largest indoor pool of its era, now a gallery.
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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 Ponce de Leon Hotel, St. Augustine: A Walk Through the Building
An 1888 Spanish Renaissance Revival hotel in St. Augustine — poured concrete, Tiffany glass, and a courtyard plan.
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The Memphis Zoo: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A zoo in Overton Park with an Egyptian Revival entrance — and a set of backgrounds designed for animals rather than for photographs.
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The Memphis Botanic Garden: The Venue’s Own Logic
Ninety-six acres organised as dozens of small gardens — which means it is not one venue but a sequence of them.
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The Peabody Memphis: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A 1925 grand hotel in downtown Memphis whose best interior room has a public appointment every afternoon.
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The Graduate Nashville: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A maximalist hotel in Midtown where every surface is patterned — which is a problem with four specific solutions.
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The W Nashville: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A design-led hotel in the Gulch, opened in 2021 — and one frame that only a building like this can give you.
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The Thompson Nashville: A Walk Through the Building
A mid-rise in the Gulch, opened in 2016, with a roof worth climbing to — and a neighbourhood built in a railway cut.
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The Four Seasons Nashville: The Light Through the Day
A tower of around forty storeys in SoBro, opened in 2022 — and a set of light problems specific to modern glass.
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The Newport Aquarium, Newport: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
An aquarium on the Kentucky bank of the Ohio, with the Cincinnati skyline directly across the water.
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