It may seem like it but for the record, I am not professionally stalking Matt McConnell and all his projects. NOT YET. In my defense, Cline Design hired me earlier this year for interior architectural photography of 300 Swift apartments in Durham, North Carolina involving five views. Each shot was staged anywhere between 15-45 minutes and I employed a home-cooked
I was recently in the Philadelphia area to photograph the Lansdowne Theater in Pennsylvania. A little about the theater – the building is on the National Historic Register and operated until 1986. It’s old and in disrepair, but as you can deduce from the lights – not abandoned. Like many historic buildings there have been several failed attempts to save
WOOHOO, first blog of 2016! About time, right? It’s been a relatively busy winter season so what better way to get started than to talk about a project I really can’t talk about? That’s correct, the location and who owns it is CONFIDENTIAL (dun dun DUN). When asked if I could keep a secret, I enthusiastically replied in the affirmative
It’s not every day you get to commercially photograph a building in the same location you’ve shot art photography. However, that was the case for Blok Architecture’s recent infill project in Durham, North Carolina. I, like many local photographers, have captured this previously practically abandoned alley over the years. As Durham has dramatically grown from the doldrums of the past
After photographing 610 Chamberlain last year for the design-build firm Concept Eight, I returned to shoot a couple more of their Raleigh homes. The first residence was Tower Court, which is on what I call the “Concept 8 Block”- adjacent to two other of their builds. This was a full custom-design. The house is accessible by two parallel streets, so
Remember this summer when I photographed Skyhouse Apartments in downtown Raleigh? No? That’s okay, because apparently one Skyhouse shoot deserved another – this time in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina on behalf of
Woohoo! I finally got away to take some photos for fun! I traveled to the unique Fonthill Castle Estate in Doylestown, approximately an hour north of Philadelphia. Fonthill was built in the early 20th century by Henry Chapman Mercer an archaeologist and anthropolgist. Mercer had no training in architecture but designed and built the entire house himself between 1908 and
While it rained in North Carolina for two weeks straight, I escaped to work in SanAntonio, Texas on assignment for KBS at the Promenade, part of the Eilan mixed-use complex near Six Flags. You can’t miss these colorful Spanish-inspired buildings with terra cotta roofs. The buildings are pretty straightforward in their appearance, though I was able to play with the
Marsico Hall is one of the latest buildings to be completed on University of North Carolina’s campus in Chapel Hill. It’s a $260M research facility dedicated to advancing knowledge of cancer and other complex diseases. Departments include lung health, microbiology and immunology, cancer research, and nanotechnology. This is the main view along Mason Farm Road. It’s easily one of the
The Stanhope student housing development is another architectural photography assignment in my backyard of Raleigh, North Carolina for Little Architecture. Having photographed modern student apartments throughout the South, it’s obvious that these aren’t your parents’ apartments. These kids are getting it all these days. You know – back in MY day… …er, uh sorry – was getting carried away with
It’s been a personally interesting and challenging year, much of it affecting my daily ability to work. I’ve recently continued to forge ahead both personally and professionally, getting back into the groove of things this summer. Now – when I, like many photographers, present these blogs we tend to show off our sexiest projects – the assignments we know will
Lemme tell you something about the new MetLife Campus in Cary, North Carolina – Snoopy is BIG here. Two out of the first three buildings have been constructed on the property, owned by my client,