The Grand Targhee Resort, Alta: Suits and Does Not Suit
A resort on the western slope of the Tetons — which means the peaks are lit at sunset rather than backlit.
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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 Hard Rock Casino, Biloxi: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A beachfront casino resort — a building deliberately designed to have no daylight and no clocks in it.
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The Biloxi Lighthouse, Biloxi: One Frame, and How It Is Made
An 1848 cast-iron lighthouse marooned in a highway median — and one frame that turns the traffic into an asset.
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The Beauvoir, Biloxi: A Walk Through the Building
An 1850s raised Gulf Coast cottage with deep galleries and live oaks — and a site whose history has to be decided about before it is booked.
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The Tybee Island Lighthouse, Tybee Island: A Walk Through the Station
A complete light station on a barrier island — tower, cottages, outbuildings, and a beach where the tide runs out for a very long way.
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The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Pooler: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
An air force museum near Savannah with a bomber in a dark hall, a stained-glass chapel and memorial gardens.
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The Bond Ballroom, Hartford: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A restored 1913 hotel ballroom — a single decorated volume, and one frame that shows the whole of it.
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The Hartford Club, Hartford: Suits and Does Not Suit
A private club in a Georgian Revival building — a sequence of panelled rooms rather than one large hall.
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The Society Room, Hartford: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A former banking hall with a domed painted ceiling — and one decision that shapes every frame in it.
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The Silverado Resort, Napa: A Walk Through the Property
A golf resort built around an 1870s mansion — a period house with several hundred acres of open ground behind it.
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