All Souls Chapel, Fayetteville: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A small chapel in the Ozarks, presenting the problem every chapel presents: a dark room with a handful of very bright openings.
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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.
Sand Creek Country Club, Chesterton: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A golf club on the northwest Indiana moraine, close enough to the Lake Michigan dunes for the lake to set the weather.
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The Riverbend Barn, LaPorte: A Walk Through the Site
A barn on a river bend in northwest Indiana, where the water curves and so does the light that comes off it.
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Harrah’s Hoosier Park, Anderson: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A racing and gaming venue on the flat central Indiana till plain — big skies, big buildings, and nothing in between.
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Blue Chip Casino, Michigan City: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A casino hotel near the Lake Michigan shore — modern, bright, weatherproof, and dependent on what a photographer brings to it.
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Brown County Inn, Nashville: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
An inn in the Brown County hills — the one part of Indiana the glaciers missed, and the reason the state has an autumn destination.
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The Dunes Walk Inn, Michigan City: One Frame and How It Is Made
A historic inn near the Indiana dunes, on the one shoreline in this guide where both sunrise and sunset happen over the water.
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The Barn at Bay Horse, Valparaiso: A Walk Through the Site
A barn venue on the northwest Indiana moraine — rolling ground, deep soil, big fields and conifer windbreaks at every boundary.
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Aberdeen Manor, Valparaiso: How the Light Moves
A manor-style venue in the moraine country of northwest Indiana, close enough to Lake Michigan for the lake to change the weather.
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The Story Inn, Story: One Frame and How It Is Made
A nineteenth-century general store in a Brown County hollow — a whole hamlet of two or three buildings, and one frame worth the day.
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