The Sand Harbor Beach, Incline Village: One Frame, and How It Is Made
Granite boulders in water clear enough to see thirty metres down — one frame, and it only exists in the morning.
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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 Graduate Annapolis, Annapolis: Suits and Does Not Suit
A themed hotel in downtown Annapolis — walkable to everything, and on the water to nothing.
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The Annapolis Waterfront Hotel, Annapolis: The Light Through the Day
A hotel on the water at the City Dock — where the masts do more work than the water does.
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The Maryland State House, Annapolis: A Walk Through the Building
The oldest state capitol still in legislative use — a working seat of government, which sets the terms.
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The Elkridge Furnace Inn, Elkridge: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A colonial-era ironworks settlement on the Patapsco — small rooms, gardens, and an industrial past under the lawn.
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The Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A 1930s zoo laid out as a formal park — which gives a photographer a choice most zoos do not offer.
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The Morton Arboretum, Lisle: One Frame, and How It Is Made
Seventeen hundred acres of trees, and one frame that only a collection like this can give you.
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The Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe: The Venue’s Own Logic
A botanic garden built on islands in a lagoon system — where the water, not the planting, is the organising idea.
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The Cantigny Park, Wheaton: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A former estate with formal gardens, restored prairie and armoured vehicles on the lawn — four environments in one park.
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The Clark House, Hayden: The Venue’s Own Logic
A 1910 mansion above Hayden Lake — built to face one direction, which decides everything.
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