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Fisher ResidenceNorthern Utah
A private residence, photographed front and back across a full season.
Built first. Photographed second.
The projects are named below. The photographs are not there yet, and that part is on purpose — we are shooting the work across a full season rather than filling this page now with phone pictures taken from the tailgate on handover day.
Every frame below is a real brief written for that shoot. When the photographs land, they land here — and nothing stands in for them in the meantime.
Any yard photographs well on the day it is finished. The only honest portfolio is the one shot in year three, after three winters have had their say.
Which is why this takes a season.
A terrace has to go through freeze and thaw before its joints have told you anything. A planting scheme is a collection of small plants in its first summer and a garden in its third. Lighting only reads at the twenty minutes either side of dusk.
So the shoot is scheduled around the work rather than around the launch: mid-build detail while the base is still open, finished sites in raking light, and returns to earlier projects that have now had time to settle and grow in.
Structure, specimen planting, and hardscape resolved as one environment
The Projects
Five jobs, named.
The archive is organized by project as well as by discipline, because a yard is not seven separate purchases to the person who lives in it. Each of these is being photographed to the same brief: finished wide, one detail close, and — where we still have the frames — the ground open before any of it was visible.
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RockwoodNorth Ogden
A Weber County site in the Rockwood development. What Weber County asks of a site.
The finished environment wide, with the bench and the valley behind it
Structure up close — wall face, cap, and the drainage that sits behind both
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Grayson RidgeSyracuse
A Davis County site in the Grayson Ridge development. What Davis County asks of a site.
The finished environment wide, shot with room above the roofline
Hardscape detail — joint lines, edge restraint, and how the stone meets planting
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Pine RidgeKaysville
A Davis County site in the Pine Ridge development. What Davis County asks of a site.
The finished environment wide, in the twenty minutes either side of dusk
Planting at close range, in the season it actually reads
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CommercialUtah & Idaho
Commercial installs across Utah and Idaho.
A commercial frontage at scale — the same sequence, run long
Crew and equipment working at production volume
The Briefs
What is being photographed.
Seven disciplines, shot twice each: once with the ground open, once finished. The construction frames matter as much as the finished ones — they are the only proof of what is underneath, and of the process that put it there.
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Grading & Drainage
Where every yard is won or lost. Water moves first; everything else follows.
Rotary laser and grade stakes across a stripped site, before any base goes down
Open trench with perforated pipe bedded in washed drain rock, fabric folded back
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Retaining Walls
Engineered walls with drainage behind them, built to hold a hillside for decades.
Wall under construction — geogrid rolled out into the retained soil, first courses set
Clean angular drainage stone and collector pipe behind an exposed block face
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Patios & Hardscape
Stone set on a compacted base, jointed to survive freeze and thaw.
Base course going in — plate compactor mid-lift, string lines set
Screed rails and bedding course, pavers stacked at the edge of the field
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Pools & Surrounds
The deck, coping, and drainage around water — the part of a pool you actually stand on.
Deck mid-build — base open, sleeves crossing, forms set to the shell
The coping joint close in, filler full depth before the surface seal
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Planting & Gardens
Plant palettes chosen for this climate — alpine wind, alkaline soil, short shoulder seasons.
Native grasses and rabbitbrush in late-season color against a stone edge
Root ball set in an open hole, flare visible at grade, native backfill to one side
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Landscape Lighting
Low-voltage lighting laid out for the evenings you actually use the yard.
Wall grazed from close in at dusk — stone texture raised, fixture unseen
Canopy lit from within, dappled light falling across a terrace below
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Water Features
Basins, spillways, and quiet water — plumbed and sealed to run without babysitting.
Spillway running as a full sheet, stone edge disappearing into the waterline
Basin under construction — liner pleated flat, plumbing and valve box exposed
Where It Was Built
Four counties, four sets of problems.
The archive will be organized by county rather than by style, because in northern Utah the county is the brief. Elevation, soil, wind, and season length change more across these four than any client preference ever does.
Summit & Wasatch
The alpine corridor — shorter seasons, steeper grades, and the most demanding site conditions in the state.
- Park City
- Heber City
- Midway
- Kamas
Davis
Bench lots with long views west across the lake and hard clay soils that dictate drainage strategy.
- Farmington
- Kaysville
- Layton
- Centerville
- Fruit Heights
- Syracuse
Salt Lake
Established east-bench neighborhoods where mature canopy and tight access shape the whole approach.
- Holladay
- Millcreek
- Salt Lake City
Weber
Foothill parcels below the Ogden peaks, with wind exposure that narrows the workable plant palette.
- Ogden
- North Ogden
- West Haven
- Huntsville
Common Questions
About the archive, and the work behind it.
- Why are there no photographs yet?
- The projects are listed; the pictures are not there yet, and that is deliberate. We are photographing the work across a full season rather than filling the page now with phone pictures taken from the tailgate on handover day. Every frame here is a real brief written for that shoot; when the photographs land, they land here.
- Can I see references or visit a finished project?
- Yes. Until the photographs exist, standing on a real site is the honest alternative — we run active sites across all four counties for most of the year. Ask when you inquire and we will arrange a walk around one.
- What does a project timeline usually look like?
- It runs in the order the ground dictates: grading and drainage first, then the structural work, then the finish and planting. How long that takes depends on scope, access, and how much of the season is left — a terrace has to move through freeze and thaw before its joints settle, and a planting scheme reads as a garden by its third summer, not its first.
- Will the archive include construction photos or only finished shots?
- Both. Each discipline is shot twice — once with the ground open, once finished. The construction frames matter as much as the finished ones, because they are the only proof of what is underneath.
- Do you publish past project addresses?
- We name the town and the development — Rockwood in North Ogden, Grayson Ridge in Syracuse, Pine Ridge in Kaysville — because that is what tells you whether we have built on ground like yours. We do not publish street addresses, and we do not list client names or lot counts without permission. Where you want to see a finished site rather than a photograph of one, we arrange a visit.
- How do I start a project?
- Send us the site: where the lot sits, what the grade does, and what you want out of it. The county tells us most of what we need about the ground, and the rest is a short conversation.
Come and stand on one.
Until the photographs exist, the honest alternative is better than photographs anyway. We run active sites across these four counties most of the year, and a walk around one tells you more about how we build than any frame will.
Ask when you inquire, and we will arrange it.