Driven by Story, the production arm
Let’s start with where your images are going to live.
A website header, a sponsor deck, or forty posts to carry you through a slow winter?
Your answer shapes what I point the camera at on the day.
And if your place or event has an energy you can feel,
that’s exactly where I want to be.
What gets made
Festivals, car shows, conferences, tourism events, community programs, fundraisers. The ones I love most have an energy you can feel, and I want to catch it moving. I shoot the thing that happened and the thing you can promote next year with it. Crowd, detail, atmosphere, sponsor signage in frame where it needs to be. Eight years of running the calendar and the events at a Route 66 drive-in sits behind how I read a crowd.
The people, the place, and the thing you actually sell. Photographs and short video built for a website, a listing, a campaign, or the eight posts somebody has to fill next month. Shot to a plan rather than to a mood board. I will always appreciate a good mood board too!
Waterfalls, open water, old growth timber, wildlife, and the places worth the drive. Commissioned work for destinations, tourism boards, outfitters and travel brands, shot so people can feel the energy of a place before they ever get there. Nature is a force of energy all its own, and some of my favorite energy to capture.
How a booking runs
Fifteen minutes on the phone or a note through the form. What the event is, when the deadline falls, and what the images have to do once it is over.
Scope, hours, deliverables, license and price on one page. You sign it and the date is yours.
I show up early, I know the shot list, and I stay out of the way of your event while getting the frames we agreed on. Microphones come along for interviews and speeches, so the sound holds up as well as the picture.
Edited photos, video coverage, reels and 360-degree footage, color corrected and sized for web and print, in a gallery you can share. The footage keeps working long after the event, with content you can post all year.
Rates
What a job costs comes down to hours on site, what you get back, and where the images are allowed to run. These are the starting numbers, and every job is priced to the project. Tell me the job and I will put a real one in writing.
Photography or video for a business. Half day on site, edited selection, license included.
Festivals, shows, conferences and community events, billed by the hour. Production options are photography, video and 360-degree footage, on their own or together. The final quote depends on the project: how long you need me on site, which production options you choose, what comes back, and where it will run.
Commissions for destinations, tourism boards, outfitters and travel brands. Single day or multi day trips, with photography, video and 360-degree footage. Quoted by proposal, with travel on its own line.
Questions people actually ask
There is an RV, a truck to pull it and a current passport, so the honest answer is far. Central Illinois is home for now and a lot of work still happens within a couple of hours of Springfield. Over time I hope to do more of my work on the road, starting with Route 66. Travel sits on its own line of the quote instead of buried in the day rate.
Turnaround is based on what you need. Some things go out the same day, others within a week. I also create content from the footage that you can use all year long, so one weekend keeps filling your feed for months instead of a single recap post.
Yes. Reels, short commercials, behind the scenes footage and 360-degree footage, edited and delivered ready to post. Most brand jobs end up as a mix of both, and video and 360-degree footage are production options for any event.
Then start on the strategy side with a Start Here session for $60. Half the time a shoot list falls out of that conversation and we both stop guessing.
Where the work shows up first
Come along for the ride.
The Facebook page is now all things that give us energy: nature, travel and event photos from the last 15 years. Expect images from the Litchfield Skyview Drive-In days, lots of cars (maybe yours), nature, travel, and stories of and from the people we meet along the way. YouTube is where the reels and behind the scenes footage live.
Live from Facebook
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