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Process

Craftsmanship Trades at work Milestones Progress

Some of the best stories happen before the final photographs. On select projects, I document the build itself, including craftsmanship, trades at work, and key milestones, so builders can show how the work is made, not only how it ends.

Where character begins

Long before the final photographs, a home earns its character one stone and one joint at a time.

Masons on scaffolding laying a new fieldstone facade, a pile of cut stone in the foreground — 01Masonry · Stone facade

Two masons on a scaffold setting stone around the windows — 02Masonry · On the scaffold

Gloved hands pointing mortar between stones — 03Masonry · Pointing

Carved stair bracket and balusters, detail — 04Millwork · Stair detail

Detail of painted panel molding with a carved corner flourish — 05Millwork · Panel molding

Framing & siding

A new home takes its shape board by board, from the first wrap to the last course of siding.

Crew on scaffolding installing dark lap siding on a new two story home — 06Residential build · Siding

Carpenter in a straw hat cutting siding on a miter saw, sawdust in the air — 07Residential build · Cutting

Installer on a scaffold nailing dark siding over house wrap — 08Residential build · Installation

Aerial of the new home mid build, with the site graded around it — 09Residential build · Aerial

Steel fabrication

Sparks, arc light, and steady hands turn raw steel into the frame of a building.

Welder in a green jacket bent over a steel assembly, arc light flaring across the beam — 10Steel fabrication · Welding

Seated welder at work beneath a large American flag in the fabrication shop — 11Steel fabrication · Seated weld

Worker in a red hard hat setting up an automated welding carriage on a steel girder — 12Steel fabrication · Automated welder

Worker in a red jacket grinding steel on a lift table as sparks fall to the floor — 13Steel fabrication · Grinding

Construction

I document high rise and industrial construction from the air, from Jersey City to Kentucky.

Black and white view of two glass towers rising in Jersey City, a tower crane between them and Manhattan beyond — 14Jersey City · Tower build

Close aerial of a red tower crane's cab and jib against glass residential towers — 15Maxim Crane · Operator cab

Tower crane working above a concrete frame beside four glass high rises — 16Maxim Crane · Tower build

Red crane atop a rising tower with a sloped glass facade, Manhattan on the horizon — 17Maxim Crane · Topping out

Sunrise aerial of the Russellville automated storage build, a red crawler crane beside a steel scaffold tower above morning fog — 18Russellville ASRS · Kentucky

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