Abe Martin Lodge, Nashville: The Venue’s Own Logic
A rustic park lodge in the Brown County hills, built from the timber and stone around it — which means it absorbs light rather than reflecting it.
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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.
Potawatomi Inn, Angola: How the Light Moves on a Kettle Lake
A park inn on a chain of glacial kettle lakes in the far northeast corner of Indiana — deep, clear, cold water in wooded moraine country.
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The Pines at Porter, Indiana: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A venue in the Indiana dune country, where the sand is bright quartz, the lake faces north, and both sunrise and sunset can be over water.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A two-and-a-half-mile oval with a strip of original brick at the start line. The place is either the subject or it is nothing.
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French Lick Resort, French Lick: The Venue’s Own Logic
A grand resort built around mineral springs in the southern Indiana hills — designed to impress on arrival and to hold people indoors.
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The Youngtown Inn, Lincolnville: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A nineteenth-century farmhouse inn set inland of the Maine coast, with no landmark, no view and nothing obvious to point a camera at.
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Boothbay Harbor Inn, Maine: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
An inn on a working Maine waterfront, where the background is full of boats, moorings, buildings and other people.
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Spruce Point Inn, Boothbay Harbor: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A resort on a peninsula at Boothbay Harbor, with water on more than one side — which is the whole advantage.
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Norumbega Inn, Camden: A Walk Through the Site
A nineteenth-century stone mansion above Penobscot Bay, built of the local granite and full of dark timber.
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Hidden Pond, Kennebunkport: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A woodland resort set back from the Maine shore, where the canopy is the whole venue and the sea is deliberately out of sight.
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