Longue Vue: Reading the Light Across Eight Acres of Gardens
A 1939–1942 Classical Revival house on around eight acres in New Orleans, with gardens designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman including the Spanish Court.
The Forsyth Park Fountain: A Photographer Answers Your Questions
The 1858 cast-iron fountain at the north end of Forsyth Park, framed by live oaks and Spanish moss. Savannah's most photographed spot, for good reason.
The Philbrook Museum: Reading the Light in an Italian Villa and Its Gardens
Waite Phillips' 1927 Italian Renaissance villa in Tulsa, now an art museum, with around 25 acres of formal gardens running down to a tempietto.
The Rawlings Conservatory: A Walk-Through of Glass Houses
Baltimore's 1888 Victorian conservatory in Druid Hill Park — a glass palm house with linked growing houses. Green, humid, and lit entirely through glass.
Lauritzen Gardens: A Season-by-Season Photography Guide
A 100-acre botanical centre south of downtown Omaha, with formal gardens, a conservatory, woodland and a Victorian garden, above the Missouri River.
The Missouri Botanical Garden: Reading the Light Across 79 Acres
Founded 1859 in St. Louis, the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in the United States, with 79 acres, a Japanese garden and the Climatron dome.
Biltmore Estate: Reading the Light on 8,000 Acres
George Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau, completed 1895, with Olmsted-designed grounds on around 8,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Wormsloe Historic Site: The Oak Avenue and How to Time It
An avenue of roughly 400 live oaks draped in Spanish moss, running a mile and a half to the tabby ruins of Georgia's oldest standing structure.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Light, Timing and the Courtyard
Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1903 Venetian palace in the Fenway, built around a glass-roofed courtyard. One of the most beautiful and most restricted interiors in Boston.
Photographing a Wedding at the Portland Japanese Garden
Twelve acres of maple canopy on an east-facing slope in Washington Park. Beautiful, and darker than almost every couple expects. Here is how we plan the light, the timeline...