Photo Friday

Perhaps it’s because we are all getting used to modern design, but I am seeing a fine line between modern and classic in clean gracious designs. Case in point is a home meticulously built by Hobble Creek Construction in the canyon area of Alpine. The architectural design by Upwall...
It’s easy to tell what’s on my mind. It’s summer, it’s hot and it’s time to take a dip into some dazzling backyard swimming pools. I have been taking quite a few exterior shots this past week or two, and as you know, it’s been plenty warm. A pool...
This week found me going through my files for more images for the Frank Lloyd Wright documentary being prepared in Italy by an architect. Last week I posted photos of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House. This week the Marin County Civic Center offers an interesting contrast. What the buildings...
I recently received a request for photographs of the Ennis House, a 1923–1924 concrete block home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for a neighborhood south of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. An Italian architect is preparing an interesting series of architectural documentaries to include Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van...
Food, friends, fireworks, and fun frame the Fourth a favorite festival. (OK, I’ll stop with the alliteration.) Architectural photography is location work, so thinking of it in that way, it isn’t such a big leap that I would be asked to photograph the big celebration at a resort enclave....
Everyone knows that the residences surrounding Central Park in New York City aren’t affordable. A short five years after building Central Park, the neighboring properties soured in value to become exclusive. However, in Utah's "Central Park" terms, the Central Park Condominium project I am talking is affordable housing. Affordable housing...
Surprisingly often, I am asked to take photos of homes prior to the homeowners moving in. My natural tendency is to balk at taking pictures of an empty home because it may be disappointing without the life that furnishings, fabrics, art, and accessories give to the space. But that’s...
by Scot Zimmerman Frank Lloyd Wright called Prairie Style a truly American form of architecture. At the point in his career where he immersed himself in this style, he was working in the Midwest and was inspired by the landscape. The style is rooted in the earth, the long rectangular...
by Scot Zimmerman The sirens of spring keep calling me outside to stroll. Today we take a gallery stroll down Main Street Park City to a gallery I recently photographed, Susan Swartz Studios.   I remember first seeing a painting by Susan Swartz and the emotional reaction I had to it....
Often in the Wasatch back, the terms fastest growing, biggest, best, most luxurious, recently constructed, most popular, exclusive and similar superlatives prevail in conversations and print about the area.