Cascade Golf Course, Cascade: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A golf course in a high Idaho valley beside a reservoir — open, level and clean, in a climate whose sun is harder than it feels.
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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.
Redfish Lake Lodge, Stanley: A Walk Through the Site
A lodge on an alpine lake below the Sawtooth Mountains — high, clear, cold, and with a view most sites only claim.
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Teton Valley Lodge, Driggs: The Light Through the Day
A lodge on the Idaho side of the Tetons — which means the range is lit in the evening rather than at sunrise.
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Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A ski mountain above Lake Pend Oreille in north Idaho — and one decision, about elevation, that settles everything else.
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Shore Lodge, McCall: The Light Through the Day
A lodge on a clear mountain lake in central Idaho — read hour by hour, because a lake is a different surface in every one of them.
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Sun Valley Resort: The Site’s Own Logic
A purpose-built mountain resort in a high Idaho valley — designed as one composition rather than accumulated, which shows.
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Roseberry Church, Donnelly: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A small historic church in a high Idaho valley — where the altitude makes a modest window unusually bright.
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Ponderosa Springs, Riggins: Field Notes
A venue in the Salmon River canyon — a deep low canyon in mountain country, which is hotter and shorter-lit than anyone expects.
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Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch, Stanley: The Light Through the Day
A historic ranch on open sage meadow in the Sawtooth Valley — a very high, very open, very cold place with a range on one side.
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Trestle Creek Weddings, Sandpoint: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A creekside venue beside a very deep lake in north Idaho — dense, damp, green forest, which is darker than it looks.
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