Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden, Kaneohe: One Frame and How It Is Made
A botanical garden set directly beneath the Ko'olau wall on windward O'ahu, with an avenue running straight at 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.
Waimea Valley, Haleiwa: A Walk Through the Site
A botanical and cultural valley on O'ahu's North Shore, running inland from the coast to a waterfall at its head.
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Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, Kailua-Kona: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A resort on young black lava on the Kona coast, where the rock is black, the sand is white and the water is very blue very close in.
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Byodo-In Temple, Kaneohe: One Frame and How It Is Made
A Japanese temple at the foot of the Ko'olau range on windward O'ahu, with a reflecting pond in front and a fluted green wall behind.
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Santa Fe Community Convention Center: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A purpose-built event centre in the historic district — modern inside, earth-toned outside, and entirely dependent on what you bring.
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Drury Plaza Hotel Santa Fe: The Venue’s Own Logic
A hotel in a converted institutional building off the plaza — with the proportions of its first purpose still legible.
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The Omni Tucson National Resort: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A golf resort in the Sonoran Desert, where irrigated green meets tan desert and the two do not agree.
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The Oasis at Wild Horse Ranch, Tucson: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A desert ranch west of Tucson — a city with the strictest lighting ordinance in America, and the night sky to show for it.
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The Loews Ventana Canyon, Tucson: Field Notes
A resort at the mouth of a canyon in the Catalina foothills, where the terrain rewrites the schedule.
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The Hacienda del Sol, Tucson: A Walk Through the Building
A Spanish Colonial Revival guest ranch in the Catalina foothills, built in adobe around courtyards.
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