Koko Crater Botanical Garden: Reading Light Inside a Crater
A dry-land botanical garden planted inside the basin of Koko Crater on the eastern side of Oahu, with cacti, plumeria and crater walls around it.
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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.
A Photographer’s Walk-Through of Pittock Mansion
A 1914 French Renaissance house 1,000 feet above Portland, with the best city view in Oregon and interiors that punish a careless exposure. Here is the walk-through.
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Wormsloe Historic Site: The Oak Avenue and How to Time It
An avenue of roughly 400 live oaks draped in Spanish moss, running a mile and a half to the tabby ruins of Georgia's oldest standing structure.
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The Forest City Brewery, Cleveland: Field Notes on a Brewery Venue
A brewery venue in Cleveland with a taproom, brewing equipment and outdoor beer garden space.
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The Conrad-Caldwell House: A Walk-Through of a Richardsonian Mansion
Built 1895 in Old Louisville's St James Court, a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in rough-faced limestone, now a house museum with event use.
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Foster Botanical Garden: Four Ways Out of the Tall-Canopy Problem
A botanical garden in central Honolulu with exceptional mature tropical trees, palms and orchid collections.
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The George Peabody Library: Reading the Light in a Cathedral of Books
Opened 1878, the Peabody's stack room rises five tiers of cast-iron balconies to a skylight sixty feet above. One of the great interiors in America.
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The FirstEnergy Powerhouse, Cleveland: Field Notes on a Converted Power Station
A converted power station in Cleveland's Flats, with high ceilings, exposed brick walls and very large windows.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Light, Timing and the Courtyard
Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1903 Venetian palace in the Fenway, built around a glass-roofed courtyard. One of the most beautiful and most restricted interiors in Boston.
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The Halekulani: Photographing a Deliberately White Hotel
A luxury oceanfront hotel on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, built around a restrained white and pale palette with ocean frontage.
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