Bethany Beach Ocean Suites: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A modern beachfront hotel on Delaware's Atlantic shore — weatherproof and certain, on a coast that faces east.
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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.
Deerfield Golf Club, Newark: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A golf club in northern Delaware near the Fall Line, where the flat coastal plain gives way to rolling Piedmont country.
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The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay, Millsboro: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A club on a peninsula in one of Delaware's inland bays — shallow brackish water, salt marsh, and water on more than one side.
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Buena Vista, New Castle: How the Light Moves on a Greek Revival House
A pale Greek Revival house with columns, lawns and mature specimen trees in northern Delaware.
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The Wharf at Lewes: How the Light Moves on a Tidal Canal
A waterfront venue on the canal at Lewes, where a working channel runs between the town and the bay.
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The Milton Theatre, Milton: One Frame and How It Is Made
A small-town theatre in southern Delaware, and one frame that uses the only building type designed to light two people.
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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Milton: The Venue’s Own Logic
A working brewery in small-town Delaware — a room full of polished stainless steel, which behaves like nothing else in this guide.
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Baywood Greens, Long Neck: The Venue’s Own Logic
A golf course in coastal Delaware that was planted as an ornamental garden — which changes everything about its backgrounds.
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Newark Country Club, Delaware: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A golf club in northern Delaware, on the rolling Piedmont fringe above the coastal plain — which gives it relief the rest of the state lacks.
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Fenwick Island State Park, Delaware: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
An undeveloped strip of barrier beach with the Atlantic on one side and a bay on the other — and nothing built on it.
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