My job is to help you make more money, let's get to it!
My job is to help you make more money, let's get to it!
Every business has a visual problem it hasn’t named yet. Maybe your website looks fine until a competitor’s site makes yours feel ten years old. Maybe your sales team keeps asking for “better photos” without being able to explain what that means. Whatever brought you here, you’re looking for a photographer who understands the business side of the camera, not just the technical side.
I’m a commercial photographer based in Colorado Springs, CO. My work spans industries, formats, and scale, from single-product tabletop shoots to multi-day campaigns for tourism brands and national manufacturers. Every project starts with the same question: what does this image need to accomplish for your business? The answer shapes everything that follows.
Photography built for business use. Advertising campaigns, website imagery, print collateral, investor decks, trade show displays. If the photo has a job to do beyond looking nice, this is where it lives. Commercial work starts with understanding what the image needs to accomplish before the camera comes out. I’ve shot for tourism operators building full marketing libraries and manufacturers documenting a product line for national distribution.
Documentation of how your company actually operates. Your team at work, your facility, your process from start to finish. This is the photography that fills your website, your proposals, and your recruiting materials with images that look like your business instead of a stock photo library. A lawn care company showing real crews on real lawns tells a different story than the same four stock photos every competitor uses. That difference is what business photography solves.
Images created for specific ad placements, whether that’s a print campaign, a digital media buy, a billboard, or a social media ad set. Advertising photography is built to a brief with exact specifications for format, messaging, and usage rights. The production is more controlled, the planning is more involved, and the deliverables are tied to a media plan. I’ve done multi-day advertising shoots for fitness technology brands, beverage companies, and outdoor recreation equipment manufacturers.
The visual content that feeds your ongoing marketing engine. Blog headers, social media libraries, email campaign imagery, landing page visuals. Marketing photography is usually shot in larger volumes with a content calendar in mind, so your team has months of material from a single shoot day. Hotels and resorts are a good example. One two-day shoot covering amenities, rooms, dining, activities, and guest experience can produce enough content to run a full year of social media and website updates.
Professional portraits for individuals and teams. Executive headshots, staff directory photos, LinkedIn profiles, speaker bios, and personal branding. Sessions can be shot at your office, at a location in Colorado Springs, or on site at your business. Team sessions are structured so nobody waits around longer than they need to, and the final images are delivered in formats ready for web, print, and social platforms.
Your product, photographed for the context where it sells. That might be a white-background e-commerce shot for Amazon, a lifestyle image showing the product in use outdoors, or a creative composition for packaging and advertising. Product shoots range from single items on a tabletop to full-day campaigns with models and locations. Deliverables are formatted for whatever platform you’re selling on, whether that’s your own website, a retail partner, or a marketplace listing.
Fast-moving subjects in unpredictable environments. Water sports, motorsports, mountain biking, skiing, off-road vehicles, adventure tourism. Action photography requires specialized technique, fast glass, and the willingness to be in the same conditions as the subject. This is not the kind of work where you set up a tripod and wait. If the shoot involves speed, weather, elevation, or physical risk, this is the category.
Interior and exterior photography for residential and commercial listings. Clean, accurate, well-lit images that make properties look like themselves on their best day. Includes HDR interiors, exterior curb appeal shots, and drone aerials for properties where lot size and surroundings matter. Deliverables are MLS-ready and formatted for Zillow, Realtor.com, and your brokerage’s listing platform. Vacation rental owners and property managers also fall into this category.
Menu items, packaged products, restaurant interiors, and the people behind the counter. Food photography serves restaurants, bakeries, breweries, food trucks, and packaged food brands. It covers everything from styled hero shots for advertising to the casual in-environment images that fill a Google Business Profile or Instagram feed. I’ve shot for national franchise brands as well as independent local restaurants and specialty food producers.
Photography for industries that don’t think of themselves as visual. Construction progress documentation, manufacturing processes, utility infrastructure, warehouse operations, field crews at work. Industrial photography shows investors, clients, and regulators what’s actually happening on site. It also gives your sales and marketing teams images that represent the real work your company does, not clip art of someone in a hard hat. I’ve shot for companies in construction, telecommunications, surveying, landscaping, and general contracting.
Most commercial photography projects follow four stages. The specifics change based on scale and industry, but the structure stays the same.
The conversation. Every project starts with a phone call or meeting where I ask what the photos need to accomplish. Not what style you like or what your competitor’s website looks like, but what business outcome these images are supporting. A hotel launching a new booking page has different needs than a manufacturer updating a product catalog, even if both technically need “commercial photography.”
The plan. Once the scope is clear, I build a shot list and production plan. That includes locations, timing, talent needs (if any), styling or prop requirements, and a realistic schedule for the shoot day. You see the plan before I shoot. If something doesn’t make sense for your budget or timeline, I adjust before anyone picks up a camera.
The shoot. Shoot days are structured and efficient. You’ll know what I’m capturing, in what order, and roughly how long each setup takes. Most commercial projects run a half day (4 hours) or full day (8 hours), though multi-day campaigns are common for hospitality, tourism, and large-scale product work.
The delivery. Edited images are delivered in the formats your team actually needs, whether that’s high-resolution files for print, web-optimized versions for your site, or platform-specific crops for social media. Turnaround depends on volume, but most projects deliver within two to three weeks. Rush delivery is available when deadlines require it.
Pricing is project-based. There is no standard hourly rate because a one-hour headshot session and an eight-hour commercial production are fundamentally different types of work with different planning, equipment, and post-production requirements.
Factors that affect pricing include the length of the shoot, the number of final edited images, the complexity of production (locations, talent, styling, permits), and the usage rights needed. A set of staff headshots for your company website costs less than an advertising campaign with images licensed for national print distribution. Both are reasonable, and both are priced to reflect what’s actually involved.
If you have a budget range in mind, say so early. It helps us both figure out what’s realistic before anyone wastes time. Most clients find it useful to start with a phone call where I can talk through the scope and provide a written estimate within a few days.
I work with businesses across tourism, hospitality, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction, real estate, fitness, and outdoor recreation. Past clients range from national franchise brands to independent local businesses in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and beyond.
The common thread is that these are companies where visual content directly affects revenue. A tourism operator’s booking page, a restaurant’s Google listing, a manufacturer’s product catalog, a contractor’s project portfolio. These are all places where the quality of photography has a measurable impact on whether someone picks up the phone.
I’m based in Colorado Springs, CO, and serve businesses throughout the Pikes Peak region, including Monument, Fountain, Woodland Park, Falcon, and Castle Rock. National and travel work is available for the right projects, with particular depth in tourism, hospitality, and outdoor recreation industries across the western United States.
Most commercial projects book two to four weeks out. Larger campaigns with multiple locations or talent coordination may need six to eight weeks of lead time. Rush projects are possible depending on availability.
That’s a normal starting point. The initial conversation is designed to figure out what your business actually needs, not to take an order. Many clients come in knowing they need “better photos” without a detailed shot list, and that’s fine.
Yes. I offer a full range of video production services alongside photography. Many clients combine photo and video into a single shoot day to get the most out of their production budget.
Usage rights are included in every project quote and defined clearly in the contract. Most business clients receive full digital usage rights for web, social media, and print marketing. Extended licensing for advertising campaigns, national distribution, or third-party use is quoted separately based on scope.
Yes. The majority of commercial photography happens on location at the client’s facility, property, or project site. Studio work is available for product photography, headshots, and controlled-environment shoots.
You receive edited, color-corrected final images in the file formats your team needs. High-resolution masters for print, web-ready versions, and platform-specific crops are all standard. Raw or unedited files are not included in standard delivery.
Commercial photography is built for a specific marketing or advertising purpose with defined usage. Business photography is broader documentation of your company, team, facility, and operations for general use across your website, proposals, and marketing materials. Both are professional. The distinction is in how the images are planned and how they’ll be used.
If you know what you need, reach out with the details. If you’re not sure yet, that’s a fine place to start too. Most of the best projects begin with a short phone call where I can figure out what actually matters.