Game Day at University of Maryland

University of Maryland has a new expansion to Byrd Stadium and the Terps are lovin' it! Judy Davis and Allen Russ photographed Tyser Tower for Heery on Opening Day 2009 and included fans and students utilizing the new space.

Can you see how Photoshop helped "enhance" this image compared to what Mother Nature provided us? We love Photoshop, you can "fix" anything.

Congratulations to Heery and Clark Constructionfor delivering the facility a full year ahead of the initial schedule proposed by the University!

New Client - Clark Nexsen

Anice recently met with Frank Kaye of Clark Nexsen, and was selected to photograph their new WDC offices. Clark Nexsen is a premier architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm that has been in continuous operation for 89 years. With offices in Washington D.C - Norfolk, Alexandria, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia - Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, Clark Nexsen employs a staff of over 500, which includes 170 LEED Accredited Professionals. They specialize in college and university buildings, federal, municipal and state government facilities, offices, commercial, healthcare, retail, food-service, recreational, and manufacturing. We thoroughly enjoyed working with this firm and look forward to more collaborations in the future!

That Extra Mile... Value Added Services...

Call it what you like. We go to great lengths to make sure every shot is perfect.

This is Allen, and his three identical brothers, doing a little prep-work during one of his recent photoshoots for Graham Landscape Architecture.

Honorable Mention from International Photography Awards

Out of an estimated 22000+ entries, several images from Allen's new book project, City of Trees: The Natural Monuments of Washington DC, recently garnered an honorable mention from the International Photography Awards.

2009 Design Award for Randall Mars Architects

Recently photographed by Anice Hoachlander, the Viola residence won a Remodeling Magazine Design Award and a Fairfax County Exceptional Design Award. Anice had a gorgeous spring day to capture the project. Congratulations to Randy and his project team. To see more of the project, go to the Randall Mars Architects website. Winning projects will be published in the September issue of Remodeling Magazine.

New Client - Bell Architects

Marilynn Mendell referred us to architect, David Bell (thanks Marilynn!), to photograph his new offices located in an historic townhouse in downtown Washington, DC near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Bell Architects specialize in difficult, urban sites, sustainable design, historic preservation and adaptive reuse. Anice photographed both exteriors and interiors of their space. In the exterior photo shown here, Anice created a stitched panorama in elevation to provide context to the historic nature of this project.

Best of Interior Design - Washington Spaces

Congratulations to Susan Gulick Interiors for winning a Best of Interior Design Award in Washington Spaces' 2009 Design Competition! The winning project of 35 entries for Living Rooms was featured in the Spring 2009 issue. Susan's client, a family of four in this Great Falls, VA home, wanted to "create order and serenity" in the room where they would spend most of their time. Meanwhile, the furniture had to be durable to withstand the daily use by the 2 young girls and the family dog. Add that gorgeous, teal blue accent color with the maple and walnut wall panels and this room is a knockout!

Experimental Night Photography

As digital technologies have evolved we are routinely testing the limits of our cameras and exploring the myriad of options now available to us via digital photography and photoshop.

These photographs are from one of Allen's recent shoots for Barnes Vanze Architects. Using photoshop, classic lighting techniques and two types of cameras: an old view camera with a digital adapter and a new digital view camera, he was able to capture this Virginia vineyard house at night. Each photograph is made up of several exposures and took a total of about 3 hours to capture, not including setup!

New Client BBG-BBGM

Judy Davis recently shot the Westin in Virginia Beach for BBG-BBGM. Exterior photography took important consideration so as to highlight the Town Center aspect with surrounding views. We also photographed the Lobby, late night of course. One aspect of photographing interiors in a busy reception area is that we sometimes have to accomplish this task from 10pm until dawn. Come join us, these kinds of shoots are always fun!

BBG-BBGM provided the architectural design of this mixed-use project in the Town Center of Virginia Beach. The tower is designed to emphasize the verticality of the form, yet to reflect the change in uses from the hotel on the lower floors to the typical residential floors, finally to the four floors of high-end luxury residential and the residents’ social room at the apex.

17th Annual Custom Home Design Awards

Congratulations to Robert M. Gurney and Jeffrey Broadhurst - 2 of our clients who won Custom Home Awards this year. Anice Hoachlander photographed the projects; Gurney's Harkavy residence won a Custom Detail Merit Award and Broadhurst received an Accessory Building Grand Award for the Shack at Hinkle Farm. CUSTOM HOME received 513 entries in nine categories. Just 24 projects were singled out for accolades. The jury was comprised of four distinguished custom builders and architects, including Heather Cass, FAIA, Cass & Associates Architects, Washington, D.C.; Jacob S. Goldberg, Goldberg General Contracting, Chicago; Mary Griffin, FAIA, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, San Francisco; and David Warner, Redhorse Constructors, San Rafael, Calif.

Residential Architect Design Awards Announced

The 10th annual residential architect Design Awards were just announced in the March/April issue. There were over 1100 entries this year in 16 categories. Only 44 projects were recognized for honors and Anice Hoachlander photographed three of the winners. Broadhurst Architects won the Outbuilding Grand Prize for the Shack at Hinkle Farm. The judges gave the project a Grand award for the architect's tenacity and the simplicity of outcome. Bonstra Haresign Architects won an adaptive reuse merit award for Parker Flats at Gage School in Washington, DC. The architects converted an abandoned public school building into 92 loft-style condos. The results were lauded by the judges as "skillfully done inside and outside." And Barnes Vanze Architects won a Restoration/Preservation Merit Award for an historic virginia farmhouse in Great Falls, VA. "They brought the house into a 20th-century lifestyle and maintained the richness," said one judge.
Congratuations to our winning clients this year and thanks for the opportunity to photograph such wonderful projects!

Smithsonian NMAAHC

Congratulations to our client, Smithgroup! They were selected as part of the team to design the new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), to be constructed on the National Mall. Freelon Adjaye Bond/Smithgroup was among six architectural firms shortlisted for the museum's design competition. The building will be worthy of the museum's vision and its prominent place on the National Mall, it embodies the African American spirit.

Judy Davis supplied site photography so that renderings could be matched to the site photos for their submission and design intent. Photographs were photoshopped and retouched to look like the rendered view from the Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument.

AIA Convention - Exhibition

Anice & Judy have been chosen among ASMP professional photographers to exhibit their work at the AIA Convention in San Francisco in May.  We are members of the Architectural Photography Specialty Group within ASMP, and the gallery will highlight images from nationally recognized architectural photographers.

Architect: WDG Architecture, Washington DC

AIA Convention - Gallery

Photograph selected for the AIA Convention in San Francisco, May 2009

Architect: Barnes Vanze, Washington DC

Kettler Capitals Iceplex at Dawn

This image was taken at dawn at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex practice rink and Corporate Headquarters in Arlington Virginia.

When Judy Davis met the client at the site at 5am, heavy fog was forecasted for the morning commute. As she was preparing the interior, her assistant was setting up supplemental lighting, and the client was cleaning up and removing unsightly items in the perimeter offices and conference room in the lower right windows.

HDP tries to prepare our clients when we say that dusk and dawn shots are intense in set-up and preparation. We race the sun for that perfect moment of balance, interior light to exterior ambient light ratio. Since the fog was so heavy, when Judy finished shooting, the client turned to her and asked "Did we get the shot?"

Once the image was proofed and emailed, the client loved the shot! They presented it at the 2007 NAIOP Awards ceremony in which they won Best Building Award of Excellence.