Chateau des Fleurs, Eagle: The Building’s Own Logic
A purpose-built formal venue near Boise — European architecture and irrigated gardens in high desert country.
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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.
Hidden Springs Ranch, Meridian: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A ranch venue in the irrigated Boise valley — open, green and exposed, in a climate whose sun is harder than the temperature suggests.
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Sawtooth Lodge, Lowman: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A hot spring lodge in a forested canyon on the Payette — steam, granite, ponderosa and a short sun day.
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Hitching Post, Hayden: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A barn venue in north Idaho, and the one frame it gives — improved by a climate that is wetter than the rest of the state.
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Highlands Event Center, Post Falls: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A modern event venue in north Idaho — bright, capable and neutral, which is a specific and solvable problem.
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McCall Golf Course, McCall: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A golf course in a mountain town at five thousand feet — surrounded by conifer forest, which is a genuine choice.
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MeadowLake Farm, Rathdrum: Field Notes
A farm venue on the Rathdrum Prairie in north Idaho — open ground with a hard conifer treeline and a pond in the middle.
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Silver Creek Lodge, Pine: Field Notes
A lodge beside a spring creek in the Idaho mountains — glassy clear water with a constant temperature, which behaves unlike a snowmelt stream.
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Willow Creek Ranch, Spirit Lake: A Walk Through the Site
A ranch in north Idaho — cleared pasture ringed by dense damp forest, with a creek running through it.
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South Pointe Park, Miami Beach: A Walk Through the Site
A park at the southern tip of Miami Beach, where a shipping channel on one side and the open Atlantic on the other meet at a jetty.
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