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.
La Fonda on the Plaza: Reading High-Desert Light at 7,000 Feet
Built 1922 in Pueblo Revival style on the corner of the Santa Fe Plaza, with adobe walls, carved timber, tin fixtures and a rooftop bar.
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.
A Photographer’s Walk-Through of Pittock Mansion
A 1914 French Renaissance house 1,000 feet above Portland, with the best city view in Oregon and interiors that punish a careless exposure. Here is the walk-through.
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.
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...