The Liberty House, Jersey City: The Venue’s Own Logic
A venue in Liberty State Park with three separate landmarks in three different directions — which is the whole planning problem.
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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 Battello, Jersey City: The Light Through the Day
A glass box on the Hudson's west bank — which means the skyline is lit rather than backlit at the end of the day.
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The Oheka Castle, Huntington: The Venue’s Own Logic
A 1919 French château on the highest ground on Long Island — and a single symmetrical axis that runs through everything.
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The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn: A Walk Through the Building
An 1897 Beaux-Arts museum with a glass entrance bolted on a century later — two opposite kinds of light in one building.
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The Queens Museum, Queens: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A museum holding a scale model of all five boroughs — which offers a photograph available nowhere else.
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The Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A converted 1901 factory on the Williamsburg waterfront — where the skyline is backlit at sunset, not front-lit.
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The Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island: The Light Through the Day
A row of Greek Revival temple fronts facing a working shipping channel — permanently in soft light, which is the whole point.
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The Lake Tahoe Wedding Chapel, Stateline: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A small purpose-built chapel at Stateline — and four ways out of the room it gives you.
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The Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village: Suits and Does Not Suit
A lakeside resort on Tahoe's north-east shore — with a private beach, real altitude, and a season shorter than couples expect.
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The Valley of Fire State Park, Overton: The One Decision That Governs Everything
Red sandstone in the Mojave, where heat, colour and crowds all point to the same hour.
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