Miami Seaquarium: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A marine park on Virginia Key, where the best light in the place comes out of the water and is the wrong colour.
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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.
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A large theme park and animal attraction in Tampa — engineered, colourful, crowded, and photographically the opposite of a quiet garden.
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ZooTampa at Lowry Park, Tampa: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A zoo in Tampa, where one decision decides every frame: an animal in the picture is always the subject, whatever the photograph was meant to be about.
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Gaylord Palms Resort, Kissimmee: The Venue’s Own Logic
A resort built around an enormous glazed atrium — an outdoor landscape with a roof on it, which is a lighting situation unlike any other in this guide.
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The Homestead Resort, Homestead: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
Flat agricultural country south of Miami, where the ground is level, the groves are tropical and the noon sun is within two degrees of overhead.
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Everglades National Park, Homestead: One Frame and How It Is Made
A sawgrass prairie where the horizon is lower than anywhere else in this guide, and the sky is nine-tenths of every photograph.
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The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A concrete box with a geodesic glass bulge on the St. Petersburg waterfront. The building is either the background or the subject, and it cannot be both.
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The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville: How the Light Moves
Formal gardens stepping down to the St. Johns River, at the northern end of Florida where the oaks are larger and the year actually has four parts.
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Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach: One Frame and How It Is Made
Japanese gardens in south Florida, where the design itself tells you where to stand — and one frame that uses it exactly as intended.
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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables: A Walk Through the Site
A tropical botanic garden where the planting is organised by family — which means the quality of shade changes completely from one section to the next.
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