Alaska Wedding Chapel, Seward: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A small chapel at Seward, and the one frame a small dark room gives better than a cathedral.
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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.
Inn at Tern Lake, Cooper Landing: A Walk Through the Site
A lake and wetland in the Kenai Mountains — shallow, sheltered and full of birds, which makes it a different subject from a deep lake.
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Hearthside Lodge, Talkeetna: The Building’s Own Logic
A timber lodge at Talkeetna — built for an Alaskan winter, which is exactly why it photographs well.
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Settlers Bay Lodge, Wasilla: Field Notes
A lodge above a tidal arm of Cook Inlet — where the water can rise and fall by ten metres and the flats are not walkable.
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Eagle Crest Lodge, Eagle River: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A lodge in a steep-sided Chugach valley near Anchorage — where the mountains, not the sky, decide when the day ends.
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Snowgoose Restaurant, Juneau: The Building’s Own Logic
A venue in downtown Juneau — a capital city with no road to it, wedged between a mountain and a channel.
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Rustic Rose Ranch, Palmer: Field Notes
A farm in Alaska's Matanuska valley — where twenty hours of daylight produces growth nowhere else matches, under a mountain that dominates the sky.
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Kenai Princess Lodge, Cooper Landing: The Light Through the Day
A lodge on a bluff above the Kenai River — where the water is turquoise rather than grey, which is worth understanding.
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49th State Brewing Co, Healy: The Building’s Own Logic
A brewery and taproom on the edge of the Alaska Range — working industrial surfaces inside, open subarctic country outside.
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Kenai Fjords Lodge, Seward: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A lodge on a Kenai fjord — where the water and the land are two completely different photographic propositions.
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