The Grand Forks Country Club: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Grand Forks country club with open ground and a level horizon — and the one frame that combination gives.
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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 Alerus Center, Grand Forks: Field Notes on a Very Large Venue
A Grand Forks arena and events centre — what a building of this scale asks of a photographer, and what it gives back.
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The North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A modern Bismarck museum with dark galleries and a bright atrium — and four ways to work the gap between them.
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The Lewis and Clark Riverboat, Bismarck: The Light Through a Day
A Missouri River boat at Bismarck, taken hour by hour — where a moving venue puts the light.
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Bismarck State College: A Campus Built for Teaching
A Bismarck college campus — and the design logic that gives it unusually good daylight and one recurring difficulty.
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The Bismarck Civic Center: A Walk Through a Civic Venue
A Bismarck civic events centre walked in the order a wedding day uses it — entrance, halls, corridors and out.
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The Bismarck Art Gallery: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A Bismarck art gallery where one decision — whether the art is in frame — governs every other choice.
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The Lost Island Waterpark, Waterloo: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A themed Waterloo attraction with water features and outdoor space — its photographic strengths and its real limits.
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The Cedar Valley Sportsplex, Waterloo: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A large clear-span Waterloo sports facility — and the one frame a room that size exists to give.
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The Isle Casino Hotel, Waterloo: Field Notes on a Windowless Venue
A Waterloo casino hotel with no daylight in its public spaces — and what that means in practice.
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