The Lago Events Center, Cleveland: A Walk Through a Glazed Event Venue
A modern event venue in Cleveland with elegant design and expansive glass windows connecting indoors and out.
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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 Ritz-Carlton St. Louis: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A formal traditional St. Louis hotel — where one lighting decision determines what the whole gallery looks like.
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Photographing a Wedding at the Portland Japanese Garden
Twelve acres of maple canopy on an east-facing slope in Washington Park. Beautiful, and darker than almost every couple expects. Here is how we plan the light, the timeline and the frames.
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The Bishop Museum: Photographing Basalt, Koa and a Great Hall
A museum in Honolulu with late nineteenth-century basalt buildings, a koa-panelled galleried hall and open lawns.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland: A Walk Through the Building
A modern museum on the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland, with a glazed entrance volume and dark exhibition halls.
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The Four Seasons St. Louis: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A modern high-rise hotel above the Mississippi — reliable and elevated, and demanding in four specific ways.
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The Cleveland Botanical Garden: How the Light Moves
A botanical garden in Cleveland with a Japanese garden and water features, a rose garden and glasshouse space.
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The Moana Surfrider: How the Banyan Courtyard Frame Is Made
An 1901 colonial-style hotel on Waikiki Beach, with white verandahs, lanais and a large banyan tree in its beachfront courtyard.
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The St. Louis Aquarium: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A St. Louis aquarium — and the one frame a lit tank in a dark room exists to give.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A neoclassical art museum in Cleveland, with a pale stone facade, a glazed atrium and formal grounds.
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