An eastside estate, shot with a downtown lens.
Mooreland Mansion is a turn-of-the-century neoclassical estate on the grounds of Lakeland Community College in Kirtland. Twenty minutes east of downtown Cleveland. Formal rose garden, wraparound verandah, restored mansion interior, and a clocktower courtyard that most wedding photographers never think to use.
It is the eastside's most under-photographed editorial venue. Most couples who book here default to local Lake County photographers who treat it as a backdrop instead of as the character it is. The galleries that result are pretty. They are not editorial.
That is the opening. Mooreland deserves the same disciplined editorial coverage I would bring to Stan Hywet or the Cleveland Museum of Art. The rose garden has its own light. The verandah is a chamber. The mansion's interior, recently renovated, holds soft east light through the morning and gold afternoon light from the southwest.
I shoot it like the venue it is, not the venue most local studios treat it as.
