We were able to salvage the shoot with some nice timing, the roof of a moving truck and a little post production. So, all that being said, I thought I’d share a couple before and after shots.

Entrance - Before

Entrance - After

Front - Before

Front - After

Nothing beats a few adjustment layers in Photoshop and some clouds from our own stock library.

Look for a later post with interior photography from this particular job.

- Kyle

It never fails, regardless of how big a room is, when photographing architecture I always find myself crammed up in a corner, against a wall, or in this case … in a closet. No, there were no skeletons. Just a nice robe for the next guest.

Kyle Dreier stuck in closet.

Or, in this case, where we were rooftop and leaning over the edge three stories up. It was brutal cold with the wind.

Kyle Dreier out on edge.

I’m afraid you’ll just have to wait for a later post to see the finals. It was a good day of shooting and the client was very good to work with. Here’s hoping that we do more for Marriott here in the near future.

- Kyle

I spent the last two days just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee in a Sevierville on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains photographing Le Conte Hospital. We were greeted with snow, cold and sunshine. Thankfully we did most of our photography in the warmth of a beautiful new facility.

Maybe a more apropos word for this situation would be “improvise.” In the absence of a lift we were able to make use of a moving truck in the parking lot to get the elevation we needed for an exterior elevation shot. The sun was setting to my back and the building and sky were cooperating as best they could given the circumstances … dormant landscaping and frigid temperatures.

Getting the shot … whatever it takes.

The view from the ground via rear view mirror.

Note to self: Next time bring gloves so Rory doesn’t have to loan his out and freeze his hands.

- Kyle
ps. I’ll post the final images from this shoot at a later date after I process the images.

Probably the most interesting aspect of this shoot was getting into scrubs to enter the surgical area. We were quite the site. The technology in the bi-planner room was amazing. I can only imagine what it’s like while actually being utilized. See the special green lighting in the OR room below which is used to assist during operations.

Critical Care Tower Atrium

Vanderbilt Hospital Critical Care Tower Atrium

Vanderbilt Hospital Critical Care Tower Atrium

Vanderbilt Hospital Critical Care Tower - Nurses Station

Vanderbilt Hospital Critical Care Tower - ICU Room

Vanderbilt Hospital Critical Care Tower - bi-planer operating room

This facility is amazing. I enjoyed photographing it. However, I hope that I don’t have to go there for any other reason.

- Kyle

I was driving back from a food photography client appointment and saw this … so I had to grab my 300mm (and trusted 16-35mm) and capture a few frames. The sky was really doing some fun things so I grabbed a polarizing filter as well.

This is a Mormon / Later Day Saint temple here in Franklin, TN. It’s an interesting structure from the outside.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring?

- Kyle Dreier

Most architectural photography assignments land me in relatively benign situations. There are times where I might be dangling from the edge of a building, walking on a steep roof or even navigating a dark mysterious basement. I’ve been in questionable places at questionable hours. (Oh, and contact with poison ivy … but that’s a whole other story.) Who would have thunk that photographing the new headquarters of the Nashville Opera at the Noah Liff Center would have produced a bloody fat lip, two loose front teeth and the headache of the decade.

Enter me, surveying the wonderful light coming into their Patron’s Lounge. I’m captured by the break in the clouds that are producing nice clean light shining through the skylight ceiling and casting sharp shadows with the typography on the perimeter.

In full-stride and mid-sentence I am stopped dead in my tracks by … what was that! Oh, I remember, we closed (and cleaned) the large glass doors for the previous shot. Ouch! A bit dazed, I receive sympathy and ice from everyone around me … my assist, my clients and some of the opera staff who come from their offices after hearing what sounded like a 175 pound man hitting a 4 x 7 foot glass door.

From examining my pristine face-print on the previously invisible glass door I could see that it was likely my less than shy chin that saved me from greater damages. One of my first thoughts (aside from “what was that!”) was “darn, no more corn-on-the-cob for me this Summer.” Ironically, my wife prepared corn on the cob for dinner last night. Needless to say, I had corn-off-the-cob.