This post is in collaboration with Cristana Corrao. For somewhere so remote, the middle of nowhere, Nevada, has an impressive reputation. The wilderness is incredibly scenic, it has a bizarre and interesting history, and stories abound about mysterious happenings from UFOs to rocks that move on their own in Death Valley National Park, just across… Read More Hard Luck Castle
California doesn’t just boast warm climes, it offers warm architecture to match. The Mission Revival train station in Davis has everything you’d hope for in a Californian building: warm stucco walls, arcades along three sides, and accompanying palm trees. But why Mission Revival? At the end of the nineteenth century, California architects began to look… Read More Mission Revival Meets Train Station
I spent the last week in Nevada and California, and upon my return to Chicago, I was greeted by a fresh layer of snow. It was the perfect day for snowy photography, being in the 20s, so I had to pull together a little photo essay of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. Wright… Read More Snow + Frank Lloyd Wright
Around this time of year, the winter weather starts to get monotonous. In Seattle, my favorite winter haunt was the Volunteer Park Conservatory. In Chicago, there’s endless places to find some solace from the weather, and this last week I headed to the Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium is home to thousands of aquatic animals for… Read More Looking Beyond the Fish: Shedd Aquarium
