The Willow Creek Farm, Westminster: The Light Through the Day
A farm venue on the plains edge north of Denver — flat ground east, a mountain wall west.
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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.
Montage Laguna Beach: The Light Through the Day
A bluff-top resort above a Laguna cove — read hour by hour, because the marine layer decides the first half of the day and the ocean decides the second.
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Hotel del Coronado, Coronado: Field Notes
A large Victorian timber hotel on a San Diego beach — white paint, red roofs and an ocean that sets behind it all.
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Four Seasons Westlake Village: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A modern resort in the Conejo Valley — inland, hot and open, which is one problem with four solutions.
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Disneyland Grand Californian, Anaheim: The Building’s Own Logic
A large Craftsman-revival hotel in Orange County — timber, art glass and low warm light, which is one consistent problem and one consistent gift.
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Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills: A Walk Through the Site
A grey stone mansion on a terraced hillside above Los Angeles — cool stone in a warm city, which changes every exposure.
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Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills: The Light Through the Day
A grand hotel on a Beverly Hills corner — read hour by hour, because in Los Angeles the hour decides more than the room does.
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Wayfarers Chapel, Palos Verdes: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A glass chapel on the Palos Verdes bluffs — a building made entirely of light, and a site with an unusual present-day complication.
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Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A cliff-top property high above the Pacific in Big Sur, and the one frame it exists to give.
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University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley: A Walk Through the Site
A university research garden in a canyon in the Berkeley hills — organised by continent, which makes the light change from bed to bed.
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