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.
Koko Crater Botanical Garden: Reading Light Inside a Crater
A dry-land botanical garden planted inside the basin of Koko Crater on the eastern side of Oahu, with cacti, plumeria and crater walls around it.
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.
Foster Botanical Garden: Four Ways Out of the Tall-Canopy Problem
A botanical garden in central Honolulu with exceptional mature tropical trees, palms and orchid collections.
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...
Lyon Arboretum: One Decision About Rain Governs Everything
A rainforest arboretum in upper Manoa Valley above Honolulu, with dense tropical planting, ferns and mountain views.