Historic Lacey’s Chapel, Athens: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A small nineteenth-century chapel in north Alabama — plain, white and simple, which is a specific photographic problem.
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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 Club, Homewood: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A club on the crest above Birmingham — an enormous view, and the humidity that decides whether it is worth using.
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Grand Bohemian Hotel Mountain Brook: The Building’s Own Logic
An art-led boutique hotel outside Birmingham — dark, saturated and deliberately atmospheric, which is a coherent logic to work with.
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Boathouse at Lake Martin, Alexander City: The Light Through the Day
A boathouse on a large Alabama reservoir — read hour by hour, because a lake is a different surface in every one of them.
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Venue at High Falls, Guntersville: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A venue beside a waterfall in north Alabama — one frame, and it depends entirely on how much water is coming over.
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Barn at Shady Lane, Cullman: Field Notes
A barn venue in the north Alabama hill country — where the building is the shade and the summer decides the schedule.
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Gardens at Gaineswood, Demopolis: A Walk Through the Site
A Greek Revival house and garden in Alabama's Black Belt — symmetrical, classical, and set on some of the most distinctive soil in the South.
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Columns at Fairhope, Spanish Fort: A Walk Through the Site
A columned venue on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay — white architecture under live oaks, which is a specific pairing.
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Lodge at Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores: Field Notes
A beachfront lodge on the Alabama Gulf coast — where the sand is white quartz and brighter than almost anything in this guide.
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Bellingrath Gardens, Theodore: A Walk Through the Site
A large designed garden near Mobile Bay — live oaks, Spanish moss, and a flowering calendar that runs from February.
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