The Meadowood, Napa: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A private resort in a wooded side valley — enclosed, shaded, and with the sun gone from the lawns early.
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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 Carneros Resort, Napa: The Light Through the Day
A cottage resort at the cool southern end of Napa — where the day starts under fog and almost never ends in rain.
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The Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A museum with a walk-in camera obscura in it — a dark room where the city is projected live onto a disc.
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The Portland Company, Portland: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A nineteenth-century locomotive works on the Portland waterfront — brick, iron and no view from inside it.
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The Warehouse, Prattville: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A brick mill building beside a creek in one of the earliest industrial towns of the Deep South.
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The Preserve, Verbena: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A rural property in central Alabama's pine country — where the woods look like shade and are not.
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The Lodge at Big Mountain, Whitefish: A Walk Through the Property
A mountain lodge above Whitefish, Montana — with a forty-minute dusk in June and trees encased in ice in winter.
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The Farnam Hotel, Omaha: The Light Through the Day
A downtown Omaha hotel within walking distance of a brick warehouse district and a river bridge.
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The Providence Public Library, Providence: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A 1900 Beaux-Arts library with a thoroughgoing modern renovation attached — two buildings, and a choice per frame.
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The Graduate Providence, Providence: The Venue’s Own Logic
A 1922 grand hotel with a marble lobby, a ballroom above it and a glass lift running up the outside.
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