The Four Seasons Vail: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A resort hotel in a high Colorado valley — where one question about the sun governs the whole schedule.
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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 Sonnenalp Hotel, Vail: A Walk Through an Alpine Hotel
An alpine-style hotel at eight thousand feet, walked in the order a wedding day uses it.
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The Little Nell, Aspen: A Hotel at the Bottom of a Mountain
A hotel at the foot of an Aspen mountain — sited for the lift, which decides its light.
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The St. Regis Aspen: The Light Through a Day
A formal hotel in a high Colorado mountain town, taken hour by hour through a wedding day.
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Sapphire Point Overlook, Dillon: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A high overlook above a Colorado reservoir — a view worth the altitude, and four problems that come with it.
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Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby: Field Notes on a High Meadow
A ranch property in a high Colorado meadow — open ground at eight thousand feet, and lodgepole around it.
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Purgatory Resort, Durango: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A ski mountain in the San Juans. One decision — top or base — settles the light, the timing and the risk.
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Park Hyatt Aviara, Carlsbad: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A large resort on a rise above a coastal lagoon in north San Diego County — and one decision that settles the whole day.
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The Vail Mountain Club, Vail: Field Notes
A private club in Vail at eight thousand feet — where the altitude stops being a detail and becomes the main variable.
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Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A Spanish Colonial resort in the Ojai Valley — an east-west valley with mountain walls, which does specific things to the light.
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