Driven by Story, the production arm
The first thing I want to know is where these images are going to live. A website header, a sponsor deck, forty posts across a slow winter. The answer changes what I point the camera at on the day.
What gets made
Festivals, car shows, conferences, tourism events, community programs, fundraisers. 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.
Americana work for the Mother Road, centennial coverage, roadside culture, and destination campaigns. Four years of hired festival coverage behind it, and before that, eight years of my family running one of the landmark drive-ins on the road.
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.
Edited, color corrected, sized for web and print, in a gallery you can share. Fast batch first if you are posting live.
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. 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. Fast first batch when you need to post the same day.
Multi day or season long coverage for organizers, sponsors and destinations. Quoted by proposal.
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. Inside six months the plan is to be working from the road full time, Route 66 first, and after that from a boat following whale migration. Travel sits on its own line of the quote instead of buried in the day rate.
A working selection goes out within a week for most jobs. Festival and event coverage gets a faster first batch when you need something to post while the event is still happening, because a recap that lands three weeks late does not do much.
Yes. Reels, short commercials and behind the scenes footage, edited and delivered ready to post. Most brand jobs end up as a mix of both.
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
Follow along between jobs.
Festival days, work in progress, new frames straight off the card, and whatever the six in the morning walk turned up. The Facebook page is the running feed. YouTube is where the reels and behind the scenes footage live.
Live from Facebook
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