The Chautauqua Dining Hall, Boulder: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A historic Boulder hall beneath the Flatirons — and the one frame its wraparound porch exists to give.
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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 Sunrise Amphitheater, Boulder: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
An open amphitheatre on a Colorado summit — one extraordinary hour, and four genuine difficulties.
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The Evergreen Lake House, Colorado: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A timber lake house in the Colorado foothills — where one decision about the water governs the gallery.
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The Lafayette Hotel, Colorado: A Walk Through a Town Hotel
A small Front Range town hotel walked in the order a wedding day uses it — rooms, public spaces, street, mountains.
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Lionsgate Event Center, Colorado: A Garden Made Against the Climate
An irrigated garden venue on the Colorado plain — and why every scrap of its shade had to be made rather than found.
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Spruce Mountain Ranch, Colorado: The Light Through a Ranch Day
A Colorado ranch between plain and foothills, taken hour by hour through a wedding day.
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Bella Collina, Monument: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A venue on Colorado's high plain — hard sun, no shade, constant wind, and four ways round all three.
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Windy Point Camp, Colorado: Field Notes on a High Mountain Camp
A mountain camp at over eight thousand feet — thin air, constant wind, and shade that has to be found.
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The Woodland Park Zoo, Colorado: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A high-altitude Colorado zoo with a mountain beyond it — and the one frame that combination gives.
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The Argo Gold Mill, Idaho Springs: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A historic gold mill built down a Colorado mountainside — dramatic where it counts, and difficult in four ways.
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