The Philbrook Museum: Reading the Light in an Italian Villa and Its Gardens
Waite Phillips' 1927 Italian Renaissance villa in Tulsa, now an art museum, with around 25 acres of formal gardens running down to a tempietto.
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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 Rawlings Conservatory: A Walk-Through of Glass Houses
Baltimore's 1888 Victorian conservatory in Druid Hill Park — a glass palm house with linked growing houses. Green, humid, and lit entirely through glass.
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Lauritzen Gardens: A Season-by-Season Photography Guide
A 100-acre botanical centre south of downtown Omaha, with formal gardens, a conservatory, woodland and a Victorian garden, above the Missouri River.
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The Laniakea YWCA: A Building Organised Around Its Courtyard
A historic YWCA building in downtown Honolulu, arranged around a planted courtyard with native planting and timber interiors.
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The Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A science centre on the Cleveland lakefront, with sweeping architecture, expansive glass facades and exhibit halls.
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La Fonda on the Plaza: Reading High-Desert Light at 7,000 Feet
Built 1922 in Pueblo Revival style on the corner of the Santa Fe Plaza, with adobe walls, carved timber, tin fixtures and a rooftop bar.
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Trinity Church, Copley Square: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
H. H. Richardson's 1877 Romanesque church on Copley Square, with La Farge interiors and stained glass. Magnificent, dark, and governed by church rules rather than venue rules.
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The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reading the Light Across 79 Acres
Founded 1859 in St. Louis, the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in the United States, with 79 acres, a Japanese garden and the Climatron dome.
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The KeyBank State Theatre, Cleveland: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A restored 1920s theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square, with an elaborate lobby and a large auditorium.
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Biltmore Estate: Reading the Light on 8,000 Acres
George Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau, completed 1895, with Olmsted-designed grounds on around 8,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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