Photo Friday

The glamorous powder room, an essential element of today’s home entertainment space, is certainly a step up from the humble half-bathroom.  It goes with the territory when you have done something for as long as I have been taking photographs of buildings and homes, that people ask about the changes...
With design emphasis on reception lobbies, offices are becoming more welcoming, friendly, and comfortable.  Making architectural photographs for as long as I have done, I have had an opportunity to observe shifts in design trends and approaches. Earlier, offices were very pragmatic spaces with strong attention paid to “usable space,”...
DesignBuildBLUFF celebrates its 20th year with a legacy of sustainable homes donated to clients.  It’s rare that I meet a University of Utah trained architect who participated in the DesignBuildBLUFF program who doesn’t describe it as the most meaningful part of his or her graduate education. It’s a collaborative program...
Belly up to the home bar and avoid finding a designated driver when you want to be as bubbly as your drink and raise spirits with some spirits.  Park City is renown as one of the great mountain resort towns, and true to its heritage as a miners’ town, there...
A beach town’s corner cottage at the Jersey Shore makes for a delightful spring break getaway. This week I’m going to again tempt you to go east for spring break. Manasquan, New Jersey, is located along the Intercoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. Its origins are a summer escape from...
The Jersey Shore isn’t the first place Westerners may think of as a spring travel destination, but I can recommend it.  Spring several years ago found me at the Jersey Shore in the beach town of Manasquan, New Jersey, where I stayed as a guest of the owner of this...
New Draper office building reflects the mood of the sky. Lately I have been talking about the significance of sky in photographs, especially in the winter when landscape is less dominant. A new office complex in an increasingly urbanized section of Draper recently reinforced this to me. Designed by Babcock...
A new five-story Silicone Slope office building opens as the largest demonstration of mass-timber construction in Utah.  In concrete and steel office buildings, it has been prestigious to have a wood-paneled office. The paneling seeks to reclaim a sense of spending time in a natural environment while at work. Then...
Nestled on a hillside, this Promontory home is an energetic celebration of mountain living.  With the snow and overcast of the last several weeks, I found myself reflecting on the beautiful autumn we enjoyed. I am sharing with you today a home in Promontory I photographed in late fall. That...
The City of Millcreek, incorporated in December 2016, completed a city hall adjacent to the Millcreek Common in the new city center. Newly incorporated, the City of Millcreek (comprised of the areas we commonly think of as East Millcreek, Canyon Rim and Olympus) set  a vision for its town center...