Sustainable design in a healing environment

A recent assignment took me to Burlington, Vermont. I was photographing the just completed Radiation and Oncology facility at Fletcher Allen Health Care. One of the facilities most notable features is this green roof garden and public space. It provides a healing vegetable garden and drought resistant plantings to reduce heat build-up and storm water run-off.

Maintaining the Landscape

Often when photographing a property for commercial real estate purposes the project deadline not the time of year determines the shoot date. Sometimes the landscaping is not at its prime and it is necessary to fill in for missing or damaged shrubbery. Other times you are using the greenery to hide unwanted signage or mechanical systems. That was the case with the lower right side of this view, where I expanded the planting area for a more pleasant effect.

Dedication Day

The Needham Habitat house that I have been photographing progress on since August 2009 has finally been completed! It was a marathon sprint to the last of the landscaping that was finished by the Habitat volunteers and coordinators by 8PM the night before the dedication. I took this photograph, one of my last of the project, the next morning to make a print all the volunteers could sign later that afternoon as a house warming gift for the new owners.

Clubbing

In addition to working on portfolio images of interiors, exteriors and exhibits for architects an designers, I also photograph architectural related subjects for purely marketing purposes. I photographed two college alumni clubs based in downtown Boston for their Dallas,TX based management company. This is one of my views taken at dusk of a main dining room and a glimpse of the Boston skyline.

From Parking to Park

Hotel exteriors can be a challenge when the best angles of the building's facade are compromised by large expanses of parking asphalt. That was the case in this assignment of a mid level business hotel. The solution was to photograph the exterior at the best time of day in good weather and then add some lawn in the foreground to  minimize the parking expanse.

A Sense of Home

Try using people in your photographs to give the space a sense of scale and use. In this interior view my client wanted to show the viewer how this living room would be enjoyed by people in her target demographic. A senior independent living development which was creating a new marketing brochure was my client.

High Noon

Photographing a landscape at high noon on a record setting temperature day is not something to plan for. But when it's your client's schedule knowing what to do in front of and behind the camera so as not make it look like that kind of day takes skill and experience. The reward is when your client says, "I had no idea you could make it look this good".