Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A red sandstone canyon west of Las Vegas — extraordinary at two hours of the day and hostile at the rest.
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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 Neon Museum, Las Vegas: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
An outdoor Las Vegas collection of historic signs — extraordinary at night, demanding by day.
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The Vdara, Las Vegas: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A modern Strip hotel with full-height glazing — and the one frame those windows exist to give.
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The Hoxton Chicago: Photographing a Wedding in Fulton Market
A hotel in Fulton Market on Chicago's West Side, with exposed brick interiors in a former meatpacking district.
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Treasure Island, Las Vegas: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Las Vegas Strip resort, and the one night frame that only this city can give.
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The Park MGM, Las Vegas: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Las Vegas resort with adjacent outdoor pedestrian space — and the one frame that space exists to give.
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The Mirage, Las Vegas: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Las Vegas resort with substantial planted interiors — and the one frame that uses them properly.
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The Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas: Field Notes on Water in a Desert
A Las Vegas resort built around substantial water features — what water gives a photographer here, and what it costs.
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The Luxor, Las Vegas: Field Notes on a Dark Themed Resort
A themed Las Vegas resort with deliberately dark, strongly coloured interiors — and what that asks of a photographer.
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The MGM Grand, Las Vegas: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A very large Strip resort where the real constraint is distance between spaces — and four ways to work with it.
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