Rockwood Park, Wilmington: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A Wilmington park with a historic house — where one decision about the subject governs the whole gallery.
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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 Myriad Botanical Gardens: One Decision About the Conservatory
A seventeen-acre botanical garden and urban park in downtown Oklahoma City, with a cylindrical glass conservatory and city skyline around it.
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Bellevue Hall, Wilmington: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A Wilmington estate house with mature grounds — strong where it counts, and demanding in four specific ways.
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The National Cowboy Museum: Four Ways Out of the Sculpture-Gallery Problem
A museum of Western art and heritage in Oklahoma City, with monumental sculpture, painting galleries and landscaped grounds.
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The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Wilmington art museum — and the one frame the split between gallery and atrium exists to give.
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The Chesapeake Boathouse: How the River Reflection Frame Is Made
A contemporary boathouse on the Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City, with a curved glass facade and water frontage.
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The Hagley Museum, Wilmington: Field Notes on a Mill Valley
A former mill site on the Brandywine — dark stone, a wooded valley and water, each with its own answer.
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The North Beach Clubhouse, Dewey Beach: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A Dewey Beach clubhouse on a barrier strip — where wind is the problem and four things solve it.
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The Bottle & Cork, Dewey Beach: The Light Through a Day
A Dewey Beach music venue taken hour by hour, where the room has no daytime and the shorelines do.
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The Starboard, Dewey Beach: A Venue Built for the Season
A Dewey Beach resort venue built for summer volume — and what that design logic means for a photographer.
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