The Derryfield Country Club, Manchester: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A golf club on the edge of New Hampshire's largest city — open mown turf with mixed New England woodland at its edges.
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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.
Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord: One Frame and How It Is Made
A restored 1920s theatre where one frame — two people on the stage, the empty house behind them — is worth the whole evening.
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The Wakefield Inn, Wakefield: A Walk Through the Site
An early nineteenth-century stagecoach inn in a preserved village — small windows, low ceilings, and an entire street that has barely changed.
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Bedford Village Inn, Bedford: A Walk Through the Site
A converted New England farmstead where a timber barn, a federal-period house and modern additions sit on the same ground.
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Snowvillage Inn, Snowville: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A country inn on a hillside with one direction that matters. Which way the camera points decides whether the picture is a landscape or a portrait.
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Loon Mountain Resort, Lincoln: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A ski resort out of season: cleared slopes, no shade, and infrastructure built for function rather than for pictures.
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The Lakehouse at Ferry Point, Sanbornton: How the Light Moves on a Lake
A house on the shore of a deep glacial lake in the New Hampshire Lakes Region, where the water does more to the light than the sky does.
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Mountain View Grand Resort, Whitefield: How the Light Moves
A grand hotel on an open hilltop north of the White Mountains, with nothing between it and the horizon in any direction.
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The Villa at Great Bay, Greenland: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A venue on a tidal estuary where a large volume of water leaves and comes back twice a day. Which state it is in when you photograph decides everything.
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Wildcat Mountain, Pinkham Notch: One Frame and How It Is Made
A ski mountain whose whole value is what it faces: Mount Washington and Tuckerman Ravine, straight across the notch.
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