The Oliver Mansion, South Bend: A House Built Before Electric Light
A late Victorian South Bend house — and the design logic that puts all its good light in the same places.
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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 Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend: A Walk Through a Historic Theatre
A restored South Bend theatre walked in the order a wedding day uses it — lobby, house, stage and out.
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The Century Center, South Bend: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A South Bend civic centre beside the river — where one decision about which way the day faces governs everything.
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Buck’s T-4 Lodge, Big Sky: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A working Montana mountain lodge — reliable where it counts, and genuinely demanding in four specific ways.
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The Yellowstone Club, Big Sky: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A private Montana mountain club — and the one frame that a high valley gives after the sun has gone.
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The Rainbow Ranch Lodge, Big Sky: Field Notes on a Riverside Lodge
A riverside Montana lodge — what timber, water and an early-shadowing canyon ask of a photographer.
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The 320 Guest Ranch, Big Sky: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A Montana guest ranch where the mountain controls the timing — and four ways to work with that rather than against it.
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Lone Mountain Ranch, Big Sky: The Light Through a Mountain Day
A Montana mountain ranch taken hour by hour, where the valley's own clock runs differently from the sun's.
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Big Sky Resort, Montana: A Venue Built Around Winter
A Montana mountain resort organised around winter — and what that logic means for a photographer in any season.
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The Solar Center, Taos: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A passive solar Taos building whose glazing faces the sun by design — and four ways to work with that.
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