Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville: A Walk Down the Terraces
A limestone house and its gardens drawn by one hand in 1929 — which means the good sightlines are already there, waiting to be found rather than invented.
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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 Glendower Mansion, Paris: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A nineteenth-century country house in Bourbon County — beautiful, and smaller inside than the photographs suggest.
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The Kentucky Castle, Versailles: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A twentieth-century castle in the Bluegrass near Versailles — theatre rather than history, and better photographed as theatre.
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The Maker’s Mark Distillery, Loretto: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A distillery in a wooded hollow near Loretto whose buildings are painted black — which changes every exposure on the property.
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The Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort: A Walk Through the Site
A brick distillery campus on the Kentucky River at Frankfort — big enough that the walk is the plan.
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The Woodford Reserve Distillery: The Venue’s Own Logic
A limestone distillery in the Bluegrass where the buildings sit in the order the whiskey moves through them.
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The Shaker Village, Harrodsburg: Suits and Does Not Suit
A restored Shaker community on three thousand acres — austere by design, which suits some couples completely and others not at all.
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The San Francisco Plantation, Garyville: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
An extravagantly painted 1850s house hemmed in by a levee on one side and heavy industry on the other.
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The Houmas House, Darrow: The Venue’s Own Logic
A River Road house whose gardens are a twenty-first-century creation — which is the key to photographing it well.
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The Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan: The Light Through the Day
A 1780s French Colonial house built as a shading device — which makes its light unlike any other on the River Road.
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