Location: Milwaukee, WI

The staff who create these masterpiece dishes at the Wisconsin Club do not hold back on creating something that looks like it belongs in Taste of Home magazine. Each plate they bring out or buffet they serve matches whatever event is happening that week at the club. In this case, they curated powdered sugar treats from cream puffs to crepes to bring a taste of Wisconsin to the members of the Wisconsin club.

The Day the Club Comes Alive.

Inside a festival day at The Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee — and why a venue this historic, this layered, and this alive with people produces some of the most cinematic event photography in the city.

The Wisconsin Club on a festival day is one of a kind.

I've photographed here across nearly every format this city offers — engagement sessions, wedding receptions, private dinners, architectural portraits. But there is something particular about what happens when the Club opens its grounds to be its own festival. The formality loosens just enough. The stone and symmetry that make it feel so considered on quieter days become a backdrop for movement, for music, for the kind of layered human activity that rewards a photographer who knows where to stand and when to wait.

Every single treat looks like a new experience waiting to happen and the Wisconsin club makes sure of it.