The Spring 2012 Pacific Northwest edition of Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine is on newsstands now and features a lovely project on Lake Washington I photographed for Castanes Architects and NB Design Group. In addition to the 10 page spread, Luxe also ended up using one of my exterior images of the project for the cover of the magazine.

We had a good stretch of sunny skies for our shoot of a new residence in Idaho for architect George Suyama and interior designer Doug Rasar. While sunny, it was most definitely not warm and as I stood outside in the snow and 6 degree temperatures waiting for the good light I kept myself warm by chanting “thiswillbeworthitthiswillbeworthit…” And it was . I’m looking forward to going back out there for some more shots of the project this Summer once the snow has melted.

I’m not eloquent enough to describe Terry’s work so instead of me telling you that “it’s totally rad”, you should just go to his website right now and check it out. And it’s not just me that likes his work. Terry has been featured on Architectural Digest’s “AD 100″ list of the world’s top designers and architects for twenty two consecutive years now – that’s every year since the list’s inception in 1990.

To say that Terry has had an influence on my work as an interior design photographer would be a gross understatement. I met Terry when I was first starting out as a professional photographer and his feedback and critiques have been instrumental in the development of my visual style and how I approach not only architecture and interior design photography but photography in general.

Dinner tonight at Rick Bayless’ Frontera Grill: house guacamole, chicken mole enchilada and a champagne margarita = delicious.

Of course Chicago is legendary for its architecture.

So it wasn’t surprising to see this McDonald’s on the stroll downtown…

Photo by Russell McMasters

Photo by Aaron Leitz

Rather than just show a bunch of images of Alaton’s work, she used my images of a project I photographed in 2010 along side the original project images published in Architectural Digest in 1984 to illustrate the timelessness of Alaton’s interiors. And she’s right. As I’ve said before here and here, the only way to decipher the age of great interior design and architecture is to look for stains in the upholstery or the presence of dated fixtures.

On final approach above a wintery Idaho landscape. Photography of a new residential project by George Suyama and Doug Rasar is set to begin tomorrow morning at 6am. Temperature will be a brisk 8°F….

Ninebark’s “garden pavilion” that I wrote about last Fall was featured this week on Dwell.com. I have a feeling that you’ll be reading more about Ninebark Design Build in the near future…

The VA Hospital of Seattle opened it’s brand new Emergency Department last month. Designed by HDR Architecture the new ED is pretty high tech inside and out.

Of particular awesomeness is the sweeping front elevation: a wall of thick glass containing hundreds of LED lights that can all be independently controlled. By day the glass is a calm light blue color, but come nightfall the entire front facade can display any color in any pattern one chooses (that would be the one who knows how to work all the buttons and dials on the control panel of course).