The Kimpton Cottonwood: Lighting a Restored 1916 Grand Hotel
The 1916 Blackstone Hotel on Farnam Street in Omaha, restored and reopened as the Kimpton Cottonwood, with a grand ballroom and period detailing.
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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 Ivy Hotel: Reading the Light in a Small Mansion Hotel
An 1889 Mount Vernon mansion, now a small luxury hotel with a conservatory and walled courtyard garden. Intimate scale, real daylight, and a garden that rain cannot spoil.
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The Museum of International Folk Art: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
On Museum Hill above Santa Fe, holding the largest collection of international folk art in the world, including the famously dense Girard Wing installation.
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The Van Dusen Mansion, Minneapolis: A Walk Through House and Grounds
A historic Minneapolis mansion with a main ballroom of intricate woodwork and richly decorated interiors.
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Magnolia Hall: Photographing a Greek Revival Town House
A mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival mansion in central Natchez, with crystal chandeliers and ornate plaster ceiling medallions.
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The Cyclorama: Field Notes on a Domed Room
Built in 1884 to house a cyclorama painting of the Battle of Gettysburg, now a vast domed event room in Boston's South End with a central oculus.
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The Saint Louis Zoo: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
In Forest Park, with the 1904 World's Fair Flight Cage among its structures. Free to enter, heavily visited, and unlike any other kind of venue.
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The Asheville Masonic Temple: A Photographer’s Walk-Through
A 1913 Masonic lodge in downtown Asheville, with ceremonial rooms, decorative plasterwork and a ballroom, now used for events.
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The Semple Mansion, Minneapolis: A Walk Through an Early-1900s House
An early-1900s Minneapolis mansion, with a formal grandeur rarely found in contemporary venues.
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Multnomah Athletic Club: Is It Right for Your Photographs?
A private athletic club founded in 1891, beside Providence Park in Portland's West End. Polished, spacious and private — with the constraints that private clubs bring.
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