AMC Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A base camp at the bottom of a deep glacial notch, where the ridges take the first hours of the day and the last.
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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.
Wentworth by the Sea, New Castle: The Venue’s Own Logic
A grand hotel on an island off Portsmouth, built when people came to the coast to be cooler — which is why it is full of porches.
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Omni Mount Washington Resort, Bretton Woods: The Venue’s Own Logic
A grand hotel from 1902 with a very long veranda pointed at the Presidential Range. Everything about the building follows from that.
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The Venue at Hickory Creek, Alexander: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A creekside venue between Little Rock and the Ouachita foothills, in hickory and pine country with water through it.
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The Venue at Cedar Creek, Maumelle: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A creekside venue on the Arkansas River bottomland, where the ground is flat, the trees are tall and the water is the best light on the property.
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The Greenbrier, Greenbrier: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A rural venue where the Ozark foothills give out and the Arkansas River valley begins — two landscapes meeting on one property.
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The Venue at The Farm, Judsonia: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A working-landscape venue in central Arkansas, where every frame is either inside the farm's world or outside it.
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The Grandview Venue, Bentonville: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A venue on high ground in northwest Arkansas, where a single decision about camera height changes every photograph.
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The Venue at South Spring, Malvern: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A rural venue in the Ouachita foothills, where the mountains run east–west and the slopes face north and south rather than every direction.
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The Columns at The Grand, Benton: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A columned building in central Arkansas — formal, symmetrical, and demanding of a camera that is exactly level.
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