Where we love to work

One country that contains a lake, a vertical coastline, golden hills and a whitewashed south, each marrying in its own accent. This is the map we work from, region by region.

Field notes, No. 01

Villa gardens stepping down to the water, boats instead of cars, mountains holding the evening light long after sunset. The lake photographs like a promise kept.

Field notes, No. 02

Ceremonies on terraces that hang over the sea, lemon groves for the portraits, and that late golden light the coast is famous for. We know the hours when the crowds thin and the cliffs glow.

Field notes, No. 03

Stone farmhouses, cypress lanes, long tables set between the vines. Tuscany rewards slow weddings, the kind with an unhurried golden hour and dancing under bare bulbs.

Field notes, No. 04

Whitewashed masserie in ancient olive groves, courtyards built for long tables, and a light that turns gold an hour before it does anywhere else. The heel of Italy marries slowly, and photographs like a warm dream.

Field notes, No. 05

Palazzo mornings, gondola crossings, confetti over a quiet canal. Venice is theatre already. We photograph it like the two of you are the only audience.

Field notes, No. 06

White linen, sea light, parties that start at noon and refuse to end. From Menton to Cannes, the eastern Riviera asks for a camera that can keep up and a photographer who knows when not to.

Field notes, No. 07

A fishing village that became a legend, a peninsula of vineyards and pine hills behind it, and the long sand of Pampelonne below. Saint-Tropez marries in linen and stays up late.

Field notes, No. 08

Vows over the caldera, white walls that hold the light, and the blue hour that gives the island its name. Small weddings shine brightest here.

Field notes, No. 09

A bay that behaves like a fjord, a walled town at the end of it, and an islet hotel that reopened this summer after five years shut. Montenegro is the Adriatic at its most cinematic and its least photographed.

Field notes, No. 10

Limestone that goes gold at six, a walled city that empties when the ships leave, and a thousand islands behind it. Croatia is the most reachable coast on this list and the least understood.

Field notes, No. 11

Two countries in one: the islands, which are theatre, and the Peloponnese mainland, which is quiet, private and reachable by road. The light is the hardest and the most rewarding on this sea.

Field notes, No. 12