The Fairmont Orchid, Kohala Coast: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A resort on the Kohala Coast of Hawai'i Island — the driest shoreline in these guides, built on black lava.
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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.
Hā: Breath of Life, Laie: One Frame and How It Is Made
A large open-air performance venue on O'ahu's windward coast, where the stage is lit and the roof is the sky.
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The St. Regis Princeville, Kaua’i: One Frame and How It Is Made
A resort on the bluff above Hanalei Bay, where a mountain wall behind the beach runs with waterfalls after rain.
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Turtle Bay Resort, O’ahu: A Walk Through the Site
A resort on a point at O'ahu's northern tip, with water on three sides and a coast that faces north.
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Hotel Wailea: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A small hotel on a hillside above Maui's south coast — the ocean is a view rather than a place you can stand on.
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Grand Wailea, Wailea: How the Light Moves on a Leeward Resort
A very large resort on Maui's dry leeward south coast — west-facing, reliably sunny, and under a near-vertical sun.
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Lumeria Maui, Makawao: How the Light Moves Upcountry
A retreat on the slopes of Haleakala in upcountry Maui, high enough that the clouds often form below rather than above.
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Maui Tropical Plantation, Waikapu: The Venue’s Own Logic
A working plantation on the central Maui isthmus, between two volcanoes — where the planting is in rows and the light comes through a gap.
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Olowalu Plantation House, Lahaina: The Venue’s Own Logic
A plantation-era house on West Maui's leeward coast, built before air conditioning for a climate with a vertical sun.
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Kualoa Ranch, Kaneohe: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A working ranch in a valley beneath the Ko'olau wall on windward O'ahu — a landscape that dwarfs anything you put in it.
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