The Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, Waterloo: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A Waterloo convention centre where the rooms are deliberately neutral — and four ways to get pictures with character out of them.
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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 Electric Park Ballroom, Waterloo: The Light Through a Day
A historic Waterloo dance hall taken hour by hour through a wedding day.
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The Grout Museum District, Waterloo: A Venue Built to Preserve
A Waterloo museum district of historic buildings and galleries — and the preservation logic that shapes every frame in it.
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Roots Run Deep, Fruita: The Site’s Own Logic
A working farm in high desert country near Fruita — irrigated green against red rock, and everything that follows from that contrast.
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Gateway Canyons Resort, Grand Junction: A Walk Through the Site
Red sandstone walls on Colorado's western slope — a desert canyon rather than a mountain valley, and it behaves completely differently.
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YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A large campus in high country below the national park. Honest about which weddings it fits and which it doesn't.
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Devil’s Thumb Ranch, Tabernash: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A ranch in a high Colorado valley, and the one frame it is built to give: a dark timber threshold with a lit valley beyond.
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison: A Venue Made of Tilted Rock
A Colorado amphitheatre built between two tilted red sandstone slabs — and what that geology does to the light.
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The Morrison House, Colorado: The Light Through a Foothills Day
A historic house in the Front Range foothills, taken hour by hour through a wedding day.
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The Boettcher Mansion, Golden: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A historic lodge on a Colorado mesa — hard altitude sun, pine that dapples, and four ways round both.
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