Adventure Branding Photography in Stanley Idaho for Tourism Brands

These multi-day branding photoshoots for the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce are some of my very favorite photoshoots. They bring together so many elements that are important to me, people, stories, adventure, the Sawtooth Mountains and they also require me to bring together all of the skills I’ve built over the last twenty years of working as a professional photographer. I love the people, I love the place and I love the challenge.

I started working with the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce in 2023, and I have loved building relationships in Stanley and spending so much time there every year. Before I ever started working with the chamber, Stanley was a special place to my family and I and we camp every year with friends at Redfish Lake.

This was a 3 day photoshoot and a big part of the purpose of this photoshoot was to document the damage from the Wapiti fire in 2024. The job was for me to get to Stanley as soon as the snow melted (which was in June 2025) and participate in a lot of different activities while documenting the damage from the fire.

Because Stanley and the Sawtooths are so special to me and my family, I was truly concerned about the fire damage, as a lot of us in Boise who love that area were. To think of that special area never being the same again in my lifetime was hard to comprehend, but I mountain biked deep into the burned areas surrounding Stanley Lake and even only six months after the fire was relieved by what I found. It was not scorched earth by any means, and even in the most burned parts, life was quickly coming back.

A big part of these photoshoots are getting a large variation of photography work for the Chamber, so over these three days, I did photoshoots around camping, the Stanley Thursday night street dance, gravel biking, e-biking, e-mountain biking, hiking, hot springs, restaurants, fishing, horseback riding, paddle boarding and even a car show. It was an incredibly full three days behind my camera, and also incredibly fun. In this post I’ll share a full overview of images and then talk a bit more through each individual photoshoot I did and share more images, it’s a long one, but I promise it’s worth it.

I love the drive to Stanley from Boise. Winding up highway 55 and then 21, through Banks and Lowman, my eyes are always peeled watching all of the beautiful scenery around me, Idaho is such an amazing (and under rated) state. One of my favorite places on the drive, and a place where I always stop is the overlook with the first view of the Sawtooths.

On this drive however I was nervous to see these mountains that I love so much. I knew the Wapiti fire had burned hot and long in the area of the overlook in fall 2025 and this was my first time seeing the forest and the mountains since that had happened.

As soon as I pulled over, I was relieved. Yes the area had been burned, but not completely scorched like my imagination had pictured. Certainly the trees were charred, but it was not a burnt wasteland like my imagination had pictured it, phew.

I got out my camera, put my drone up in the air and surveyed the damage more thoroughly. I grabbed a few photos of cars on the road thinking they would be valuable for the chamber of commerce in their marketing and then I headed on to Nip & Tuck road to scout the location for my first photoshoot of the trip, which revolved around an authentic camping setup. Here’s a few photos from my drive in to Stanley and from the overlook.

My first photoshoot scene was camping, so we setup a quick camp site with a beautiful view of the Sawtooths in the background. I scouted a location, let everyone know where to meet me and as you can see the weather changed so quickly, we started off in the sunshine and found ourselves packing up the campsite as fast as possible as raindrops started to fall. Huge thanks to Heidi Dohse founder of Tour De Heart and Reilly and Caleb for helping me out on this photoshoot. Heidi brought her Sprinter van and they all brought so much camping gear. I’m always so grateful for all of the help and generosity from the people who live in Stanley on these photsohoots.

Something awesome that Stanley has every summer is a Thursday Night Street Dance. I’ve been to several of these now and they’re so much fun. They happen in front of Papa Brunees and Kasino Club out in the unpaved streets of stanley. It’s such a fun merging of all the guides and workers in the area as well as people who are visiting on vacation. They always have local bands and I love the fun vibe.

My Stanley photoshoots are marked by early mornings and oftentimes late nights, but it ensures we get the best light of the day for our photoshoots, which is especially important when we’re trying to really showcase the beauty of Stanley and the Sawtooth Mountains (which is something truly spectacular, IYKYK).

I woke up the second day a solid hour before sunrise and I checked the weather, it all looked great and sunny and clear, but I walked out of my hotel room to thick fog. I was so close to the base of the Sawtooths, and if you didn’t know they were there, you would’ve missed them completely.

I met up with Jay and his Niner bike for some gravel biking photos on the path that runs from Pioneer Park to Redfish Lake Lodge. I had my fingers crossed that the fog would break the whole time, but it never did. The photos are still cool, but I was hoping we could get the beautiful Sawtooths in the background.

After gravel biking photos with Jay, I headed over to Trei’s bike shop Balance Bike Works to pick up an E-Bike and an E-Mountain Bike as well as one of Trei’s staff members to help me out on the next portion of the photoshoot.

We had to install a beefier bike rack on my car to hold the two heavy e-bikes, and then we headed up onto Nip & Tuck Road to do some e-biking photos with the Sawtooths in the background.

We were slowed down a little bit, when one of the e-bikes slipped off of the rack and slammed into the back window on my SUV. We were going 45 mph and I’m so grateful it wasn’t worse, my back window could have been shattered or a very expensive e-bike could’ve been destroyed, instead we lost 15 minutes and I’ve got a scratch in my back window that reminds me of this adventure.

Thankfully the fog was low in the valley and had largely burned off by the time we got up on Nip & Tuck and we got incredible views.

I’m an avid mountain biker, but I had never ridden and E-MTB before. Trei set me up with a Marin e-mountain bike and I met back up with Heidi for a lap around Elk Meadows out near Stanley Lake.

Here is where I knew the Wapiti Fire had done quite a bit of damage. Stanley Lake is such a special place to me, I’ve camped there with my family, fished with my son on his 13th birthday father son trip, and it is just a spectacularly beautiful place seated at the bottom of McGowan Peak in the Sawtooths.

Much like the Sawtooth overlook on my way into Stanley, the fire damage at Stanley Lake was much less than I feared. Places were solidly burned, but not all of it, and we were only about eight months after the fire and significant plant life had already started to come back, even in the most burned places.

I had never ridden Elk Meadows before, and it was an absolute blast to ride, and E-MTB’s? Oh sooooo much fun. Even though I had a camera bag on my back so I had to slow my roll a bit, I still had a blast on this ride with Heidi. We did have to navigate some fallen burned trees, and in one meadow the mosquitos were absolutely brutal, but I was so happy with the photos that we got, and with the adventure.

One thing that was neat about the fire damage was that we had views of the Sawtooths and of high mountain streams that you would’ve never seen before the fire. Trying to see some upsides here :).

After mountain biking, we needed some hiking and backpacking photos, and also wanted to document Iron Creek which is one of the starting points for many of the backpacking trips people take into the Sawtooths. The fire had also come near Iron Creek, so the Chamber wanted to me to go out there and get some photos of what the area looked like.

Before leaving Stanley Lake (actually before mountain biking), we also did some hiking photos to give something different than the ones at Iron Creek.

Again at Iron Creek I was relieved, and the fire damage was actually much less than even at Stanley Lake.

At this point I was feeling very grateful about the post fire condition of the Sawtooths and Stanley

After saying goodbye to Heidi, I headed back into Stanley and to Mountain Village Resort. They had just finished a brand new hot spring, and we wanted to get photos of it with a family.

The hot spring is so cool, and the view of Sawtooths from it is spectacular. I had always heard about this hot spring, and seen photos of it on social media, but this was my first time actually going to it and it was so cool, I would love to spend the evening with my wife and kids here.

Something that always amazes me about Stanley is the food quality. When I first went to Stanley I figured the food wouldn’t be that good just because it was such a small town, but I have been consistently impressed by every single restaurant in town, the food in Stanley is very good.

For the next scene in this photoshoot I met with a group of people at Mountain Village Resort for dinner. We sat out on the patio enjoying the beautiful view and the great food.

We purposefully built the plan for the photoshoot around locations, and where I would be when, so since I was in Stanley, I also swung by the Sawtooth Hotel, to get a few photos of their food and space (they also have amazing food).

One convenient thing about Stanley is that everything in town is really close together, so next I literally walked across the street to The Rod & Gun to grab some photos there.

After the Rod and Gun, I headed back to my hotel for the night to get some rest and prepare for another early morning.

I was really grateful to wake up to no fog on my second morning. The first morning had spooked me a little bit, and I know it’s not uncommon to get that low fog in the morning in the Sawtooths.

I headed out to Redfish Lake to meet up with Dallas and Kalli for fishing photos. Dallas runs a youtube channel all about fishing, he makes great videos and spends lots of time out on the water. I was really grateful that he and Kalli were willing to help me out early on a Sunday morning. It was an absolutely beautiful morning out, the Sawtooths were in all of their glory and Redfish Lake was calm and peaceful.

I left Redfish Lake and next headed out to Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch. This was my first time ever at the ranch and it is such an amazing place. They have such a unique vantage point on the Sawtooths, not quite like any other view I’ve seen. I think that’s one of my favorite things about the Sawtooths too is they look so different from every angle. Even though I spent a short amount of time at the ranch, I got to meet some of their staff and I can see they give their clients an amazing experience. I took photos of the buildings, view and incredible pool, and also grabbed some photos of their horseback riding as well.

After Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch, I jumped back into my car and headed back to Redfish Lake for paddle boarding photos. This is at a beach that my family and I paddle board at when we go camping, so it’s a spot I know well and it has such an amazing view.

I finished up the third day of my photoshoot for the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce by taking photos of a car show that was happening in downtown Stanley.

With my heart full, I said goodbye and thanked everyone for their help, I took a last look at the Sawtooths and packed all of my gear up into my car and started the trek back to Boise, grateful for an adventurous three days, for time in this beautiful little town with it’s amazing people and so excited to get home to see my wife and kids.

If you’re in need of branding photos, my calendar is booking up quickly and I’m currently booking into mid-May, contact me to get the conversation started and see what it would be like to work together. I look forward to chatting.

Boise Branding Photographer | Outdoor Lifestyle Photoshoot in the Foothills

This branding photoshoot in the Boise Foothills has some of my favorite lighting of all time.

Golden hour in the Boise foothills is truly something spectacular and magical, and there’s a reason I put so much effort into pre-production and planning to ensure we get amazing light like this on my photoshoots.

Connor is a local media producer in Boise, his company is John Connor Media and they specialize in videography work.

Connor came to me because he needed photos to use for his social media and website, he wanted a lifestyle branding photoshoot and he wanted the photos to be authentic and natural.

We chose two different spots in the Boise foothills for our locations because of the golden light at sunset, the warm and neutral colors and textures that the foothills offers, the open space to work with (see the photos with his van) and because it’s a relaxing and natural environment to be in with all kinds of possibilities. The exact location we used is amazing for sunset, and one that I’ve never seen anyone else use on photoshoots, but due to the positioning of the foothills, this location let’s me basically play with the sunset lighting for much longer than other locations.

We also kept the photoshoot really natural, focused around movement and getting real photos of Connor doing the things he really does in his business, using his cameras, working from his laptop in his van, holding his drone, etc…

Also Connor’s jacket from Topo Designs gave such great texture and matched the color palette perfectly.

These types of lifestyle moments not only feel authentic and real (because they are), but they truly perform better on social media and websites because they give people a felt sense of who a person really is and in Connor’s case a sense of what it’s like to work with him on a project.

We built Connor a strong and consistent branding content library of photography for him to use across his website and social media platforms.

As a Boise branding photographer, I work with creatives and entrepreneurs to create natural, lifestyle-driven images that feel authentic and actually work for your business. If you’re ready to update your brand click here and we can start a quick conversation.

and….here’s the photos…

Boise Branding Photographer for Entrepreneurs | Downtown and Outdoor Brand Photoshoot

As a branding photographer in Boise, one of my favorite things is finding a way to take one photoshoot and deliver a big variety of looks and work from it. Boise makes this pretty easy because we have so much variation in locations, all within a short distance of each other.

This makes my job fun, and it delivers more value to my clients because we can literally take one photoshoot and make it appear like multiple photoshoots by purposeful use of locations, wardrobe and light.

Brad is from Texas and we did his photoshoot in January (I’m a little behind on the posting front you can tell). There’s this location on Bogus Basin Road, a huge rock outcropping, I’ve always wanted to use, and Brad’s photoshoot was the opportunity I was looking for.

The nice thing about the location is that it’s RIGHT off of the road, like 50 feet, so it’s really easy to access, but it looks like you’re actually out in the wild, so it’s really convenient and beautiful.

The photoshoot happened in the inversion time and while I was disappointed to not have sunshine, we also got a really cool, moody look to the photos and really interesting light at this location in the foothills on Bogus Basin Road. Which I knew Brad would love because he was concerned about mood and storytelling.

Next we went to á cafe in downtown Boise, they were gracious enough to let us take photos there and use their beautiful space.

We finished up at Boise Urban Studio, one of my favorite studios to use in town for photoshoots, it has beautiful natural light, great backdrops and lots of different options. I always find that my clients feel great in the space too.

Here's the photos from Brad’s Branding photoshoot, and I’m eager to use this Bogus Basin Road location in other photoshoots and different weather so if you’re looking to do a photoshoot hit me up.

Thank you for trusting me with this photoshoot Brad, great meeting you and spending the morning together!

commercial photography featured in Sun Valley Magazine

I always love seeing photography work in print and I’m really honored to have commercial photography work I did for the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce featured on a full page advertisement for Stanley in the latest issue of Sun Valley Magazine.

There’s something about holding a real printed image in your hands, vs what we’re used to, which is mainly seeing images digitally, behind a flat piece of glass with light behind them. Which is OK, but I’m going to say it’s inferior.

These two pages represented many different commercial photoshoots I’ve done for Stanley, Idaho and so many fun memories of adventuring with my camera for photoshoots, which is one of my very favorite things to do.

You can scroll through the digital version of this issue of Sun Valley magazine here.

Cover image is not mine, and on the full page spread all of the images are mine except for two of them, the person riding a fat bike and the people playing hockey, those are taken by the talented Dani Schoeben w/ The Good Tourist.

I also just realized I’ve got another photo featured in an article later in the magazine, I didn’t take photos of it because I forgot, but I’ve attached a screen shot so you can see it, it’s a photo from Stanley Winter Fest of a raft going down a huge hill with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background.

Interested in a branding or commercial photography session in Boise or in Idaho? Click here to contact me and let’s talk.

downtown boise Lifestyle Branding Photography | Earth home eco cleaning

I love Boise. As far as I’m concerned I live in one of the very best places in the world. To me Boise is a very balanced place and it brings together a great combination of an amazing community, access to nature and excellent livability. It’s a place I’m proud to be raising my family, proud to be building a business and proud to be a part of this amazing city.

While Boise is certainly a city, to me it feels more like a town, where everyone knows each other, and I love this about Boise. It’s really uncommon for me to get on a call with a lead for my business and for us to not have some mutual contact in common.

Why am I rambling on about Boise? Before Earth Home Eco Cleaning was my client, we had hired them to clean our home and they did an amazing job and used natural cleaners which was so important to us for our family members and our creatures.

This made me even more excited to work with them when the owner Celicia reached out to me about a lifestyle branding photoshoot. In the pre-production process we decided we wanted to use some iconic Boise locations, we landed on the Boise train depot, downtown Boise, Hyde Park and the Boise Foothills. This was in addition to a private home in the north end that we used, where I photographed Celicia’s team as they actually cleaned the home.

We also chose to bring in a family and do lifestyle family photos with them in the Boise Foothills. In our planning process we talked about part of marketing a home cleaning business is showcasing the lifestyle that hiring a home cleaner brings, which means spending more time with your family in the outdoors.

What really made this photoshoot shine was the people. The Earth Home Eco Cleaning team was incredible, they really brought their true selves, had fun with the photoshoot and I left the photoshoot inspired about what we had created, and feeling grateful to work with such a great team of people.

Celicia, thank you for trusting me with this project. If you’re in need of a branding photoshoot, hit me up, I’ve got dates open in mid-late February, and spring dates are also booking up quickly, click here to contact me.

Boise Branding Photographer | Lifestyle Photoshoot for a Children’s Clothing Brand

I worked with Cloudroom, an incredible custom children’s clothing brand on a lifestyle branding photoshoot in the Boise foothills at the very best time of day, sunset. This outdoor brand session focused on custom-designed clothing and natural and authentic story-driven imagery created specifically for marketing and brand growth across multiple platforms (web, social, and event & retail signage).

I sourced two different models for the branding photoshoot, and anytime you’re working with children you know things don’t always go according to plan, so in the end I actually had to source a third model after one of our young models refused to wear the Cloudroom clothes for the photoshoot :). As a dad myself I completely understood and I would never want a child to be photographed against their will.

I will never get tired of the Boise Foothills at sunset for photoshoots. The low sunlight is so beautiful and dreamy and the desert terrain reflects a lot of light, which creates a great combination for producing unique lifestyle photos.

I love Cloudroom’s approach to children’s clothing, the CEO Kate finds different artists to create custom designs for each clothing drop. The name of this design is Bugland and this was the second project that I worked with Cloudroom on and it was so much fun. I always know that my values and style both align very well with this brand, so I can photograph very naturally and intuitively which I love.

I’ll let the photos tell the rest of the story, but if you need a branding photography session for your business, click here to contact me, I’d love to talk and see if I could be a good fit.

Boise Personal Branding Photography for Entrepreneurs & Business Owners | Routinely riley

I had a blast wandering around Boise on a full day personal branding photoshoot for Riley Fish. Riley focuses his personal brand, Routinely Riley, on self improvement, so we purposefully planned his photoshoot around highlighting different areas of self improvement he focuses on as well as creating a strong collection of branding images for Riley to use across his different platforms.

I find my clients get the most value from their photoshoots when we vary our locations and wardrobe, this takes a single photoshoot and makes it look like multiple photoshoots, making the content more useful.

For Riley, we started at Jump in downtown. We wanted a modern location, with different textures and walls, and I’ve spent a lot of time at Jump and always love watching the light across the different lines of the building and structure.

Next we stepped into the studio at Boise Urban Studio to do some lifestyle photos of Riley podcastings, as well as more branding photos in a different setting. I love the natural light in Boise Urban Studio, this is a location I’ve been using a lot for my clients, and. I love it. It’s also so convenient and close to so many other great locations in and near downtown Boise.

Riley has lost a lot of weight and focused heavily on his fitness, so we went down to the greenbelt for some running and exercise photos. I love the Boise Greenbelt Truss Bridge, so even though we had to walk a ways to get to it, I chose that for our exercise photo location and I’m glad I did it worked great.

After some time on the Greenbelt, we headed to the Idaho Capital Building. The stairs, the pillars, the tunnel and the unique vantage point on downtown were all useful to us for Riley’s photos.

Next we headed to a nearby parking garage (BTW parking garages are highly underrated photoshoot locations), where we were able to get the capital building and the Boise foothills in the background.

We finished the photoshoot at sunset at the Military Reserve overlooking downtown. There we took photos of Riley with a motorcycle, hiking and mountain biking. Some clouds had moved in and I was so grateful when they cleared out for a spectacular sunset.

Thank you to Mark with Alturas Photography for the assist on this photoshoot, it was so helpful to have another set of hands on deck. Thanks Riley for trusting me with this photoshoot, so great working with and getting to know you!

If you’re an entrepreneur, coach, creative or business owner looking for branding photos like Riley’s click here to contact me and let’s talk about what your photoshoot could look like.

Adventure Lifestyle archery hunting Photography in the Sawtooth Mountains | Stanley Idaho Tourism PhotoShoot

Back in mid-September I spent a full day working for The Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce up in the beautiful Sawtooth Mountains. The Sawtooths are truly one of my favorite places in Idaho and for that matter in the world. Part of planning these adventure tourism photoshoots is planning really well around the light, which is tricky because of the big jagged mountains in all directions, but I have some incredible tools that allow me to see exactly what the light is going to be like, even when I’m planning all the way down in Boise.

Typically on these shoots for the Stanley Chamber I work with anywhere from 5-8+ businesses per full day of photography. The chamber and I together have developed a system that works really well for us to make sure we maximize the variation of content we create on any given day.

I started the morning off at sunrise with a lifestyle archery hunting photoshoot at an undisclosed top secret location :), with an amazing view of The Sawtooth Mountains.

Scott with Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch, the archer in these photos and I 4x4’d our way up a steep hill in an electric Polaris side by side before sunrise, for this spectacular view of the Sawtooths. The morning was cool and crisp, and the light was incredible.

One of my favorite thing about doing these photoshoots for Stanley, and really all photoshoots, is the awesome people I get to meet and spend time with. Scott was so great and generous with his time, and I was only able to use this amazing location because of him (but he did say it is available to use on other commercial photoshoots, so if you’re interested in using it, hit me up).

We shared stories of our mountain biking crashes and broken bones as we wandered around taking photos in the hills with this spectacular background.

I’ll let the photos tell the story from here, but for reference we were able to take all of these photos (and more) in only 45 minutes, excellent planning makes all of the difference.

Tremendous thank you to Scott for his generosity on his time and helping me figure out an amazing location and thank you to the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce for trusting me with this project.

-Bryan

Boise Branding Photographer | Adele Van Der Lecq

As Adele and I worked on planning out a location for her photoshoot she told me about her work helping people with emotional trauma (which is work that I so deeply believe in), we talked about wanting to make her photos very approachable. People come to her to do deep emotional work, so when she's marketing her business online her photos need to represent the presence and safety that she brings to that work.She also talked about loving neutral colors, and how she needs photos with room for copy for marketing her business. As she told me all of these things the first location that came to mind was Boise Urban Studio in downtown Boise, so I sent her the website and she loved it. She also told me she loved the interior of á cafe, so we decided to use that as a location as well (huge thank you to á cafe for letting us use their beautiful space).If you missed my last blog post about Spencer Marks photoshoot, take a look at it here. Spencer is her partner and we ended up combining their photoshoots together into a beautiful Saturday in May in Boise.Adele was so much fun to photograph, she was super easy to work with and had a very clear vision on what she wanted from her branding photos. Here are the results...

Boise Branding Photographer | Spencer Mark.

From the moment I saw Spencer's contact form from my website, I knew this was going to be an amazing photoshoot."Transform your life into a masterpiece of purpose, beauty, and authenticity." These are the words that Spencer uses to describe his coaching work with men. For more than a decade now, I've been focused on my own personal growth and health and mens work has been a huge part of that work, so this is why I was so excited when Spencer reached out, I knew working with him would align perfectly with what's meaningful and important to me.We worked together on a half day photoshoot on a beautiful Saturday in Boise, and we focused it around getting Spencer the images he needs for his website, and producing a large variation of content for him to use for marketing his business. As always I focus my work around authenticity, story telling, lighting and emotions, I always hope people feel things when they look at my photos.In our time together we visited eight different awesome locations in Boise that we had carefully planned out and focused around matching Spencer's brand and giving us tons of variation.  Thank you to all of our locations who allowed us to photograph in their spaces, Kate's Place, á cafe boise, Neckar Coffee (outdoor wall), The Gym Eighth and Main, and Boise Urban Studio, Downtown Boise, Camelsback Park plus a few more that don't have links.I truly enjoyed my time with Spencer and his partner Adele, it was so much more like spending time together with friends and creating artwork together than being some kind of "work" (which is a four letter word I just noticed). The light was spectacular for us and I was so grateful for the weather cooperating, in the spring time in Boise, you just never know. It was an inspiring day and I'm grateful to now know Spencer and Adele.I also took some photos for Adele which I'll share in another post too, and thanks to Adele on her help with styling and doing random stuff that helped me :).

Saltbrush Boise Greek Wine Producer Event | Boise Idaho Lifestyle Photographer

I felt a bit of my worlds colliding on this two day photoshoot in downtown Boise.Before we moved to Boise in 2017, we lived in the heart of Oregon Wine Country, just outside of Portland, Oregon. We spent a decade there in the Willamette Valley and when you live in Oregon Wine Country, the wine producers and industry is always swirling around you. Most prominently I remember harvest in the fall, when we could always smell the crushed grapes fermenting.This two day photoshoot was an event by Great Gatherings for Greek Wine Producers who are working on bringing their wines into the United States wine market and get their wines on tables and shelves here. The event took place at Saltbrush in downtown Boise and included two days of private dinners and a rooftop wine tasting PR event. I always love the challenge of photographing the feel of an event, capturing the people, the details, the food, the locations, the weather, the whatever else inspires me, that all combines together to make an event what it is. The event was put on by Predhomme Strategic Marketing out of Ontario Canada, and I can say they did an excellent job and were great for me to work with.Huge thank you to Natalie Plummer with Hello Meridian, Cait Montoya with Boise Socialite, Heidi Wight with Wight House Creative and Jesse Larsen with Jesse and Friends Real Estate, for saving me a place at their table and shared their meal with me when I had a few moments to sit down between photos. I love the community in Boise, if you follow along you'll hear me ramble about it all the time, and people like this are an example of why I love it.One other note on these photos, these are all done with natural light, the client requested this, and then the restaurant also had someone with epilepsy, so using bright flashing lights was not an option, but I personally love taking photos with natural light, and love using it in unique ways to tell stories and highlight certain things.Here's the photos, which will tell the story of the event, better than I ever could. Thank you to Predhomme Strategic Marketing for trusting me with this project.

Boise Bicycle Project | Boise Idaho Photographer

For as long as I can remember, I've loved bikes.I can remember pushing myself to learn to ride without training wheels when I was only four years old.I can remember begging my mom to let me ride my bike to elementary schoolI can remember spending every day after school riding bikes in the Western Colorado desert with my friends (a little "ghost riding" down some hills mixed in there iykyk :)).And still to this day I love riding bikes. Every year I set the goal to ride a minimum of 1000 miles and I typically ride more like 1500 miles (unless I shatter my collarbone of course, RIP 2024 goals 🤣). The majority of those miles are on my mountain bike in the Boise Foothills, ducking out of my work as a photographer to crank out some hard miles.Needless to say bikes have always been, and will always be a big part of my life. I've always said that I see the world better from a bike, and it's really true.I can't remember when or how I first heard about Boise Bicycle Project, but BBP, is this beautiful merging of so many things I love, and best of all it's all for a good cause. Boise Bicycle Project has given away over 35,000 bikes (yes three zeros) since 2007, and they teach people how to repair bikes and run programs to connect our beautiful community.BBP hired me in March to photograph their event Bike Prom, their annual fundraising gala. It was hosted at The Linen Building in downtown Boise, and I was honored to be the photographer for the event, and I even had my photobooth, Boothshakalaka, there for the evening as well. I left this photoshoot feeling really inspired about Boise Bicycle Project and the work they do in our community. BBP is a place that is truly working to do good, to be a safe place, and to bring the community of Boise together. I loved seeing all of the amazing outfits (look for the dumb and dumber dresses in these photos, and the bike shorts on the bottom and suit jacket on the top 🤣), loved seeing the bikes parked all around the Linen Building and loved seeing a group of people coming together to connect and support something beautiful.As a photographer I get a unique vantage point at any event, being an outsider who gets to show up present as a witness to all of the things, both big and small that happen. I'll let the photos tell the rest of the story, but what a fun and inspiring evening.

Boise Mid-Century Homes | Boise Idaho Photographer

I'm sincerely so excited for TJ Pierce and the Boise Mid-Century Homes team. The recently moved their office into literally the most perfect building that I can imagine for them in Boise...the Design VIM building off of State Street in Boise.If nothing came to mind when I said "Design VIM Building" then you've never been on State Street, or you don't know the name of the building, because if you've driven by it before, you've noticed it, because it's such a unique and cool building (I personally had several ideas for the building already in my head 🤣).It's also a mid-century building, which is part of what makes it so perfect for TJ and his team, since they specialize in mid-century architecture.I've been honored to do projects for TJ and his team for several years now, and I always look forward to working with them. I originally met TJ in 2017 after we first moved to Boise and I was doing some contracting work for the Idaho Business Review and working as a photojournalist. My assignment was to photograph TJ in a rad mid-century home up on the bench that was for sale. In the short time I spent with TJ, probably 20-30 minutes, I could tell two things, 1). he was a truly caring person and 2). He was very passionate about Mid-Century homes. After all these years I can say whole heartedly that both of these things are true.AND... both of these things are true for his entire team as well.TJ asked me to photograph the grand opening of their new office and I was really honored to do it. It was a beautiful evening of celebration, connection and honoring the history of this unique building. I can tell you, with having an insider scoop, that if you want to buy a mid-century home in Boise, TJ and his team are the people to help you.I'm looking forward to seeing all of the ways that Boise Mid-Century Homes uses their new office for our city, and I know that they'll put it to good use. I'll stop rambling now, these photos will tell a better story then my words could.

Stanley Idaho Photographer | Sun Valley Magazine Feature

I just received the latest issue of Sun Valley Magazine in the mail, and my client the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce ran a beautiful full spread advertisement using one of the photographs I took last February for them of Lisa Granden, a Ski Doo ambassador riding her snowmobile with the beautiful Sawtooths in the background.I love seeing clients put the work I've done for them to good use. 

It's one thing to create some photo or video work that you think is beautiful, and it's another thing to see how it actually gets used and put into the world.I love that this image worked so well for this Ad. 

It was in a lot of ways a complicated shot to take, it was so cold out (I even had problems with my drone batteries), and the snow combined with the sun was SO BRIGHT!  It actually made my cameras live exposure simulation completely worthless, when I put my camera up to my eye to take this shot at first the viewfinder was nearly completely black and I could only make out faint moving shapes, the snow was so bright that the camera was reading the light incorrectly, so I had to turn that feature off, and go to work on making sure I pulled off this shot.

I'm very happy with the end result, and so happy that it ended up being a really useful image for the Stanley Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce. I've included the cover image of Sun Valley Magazine, as well as the original photo that I took for Stanley.  You can see that Sun Valley Magazine's editors did some photoshopping and photoshopped out the second rider to make the text pop, but they did a great job on it, I was very impressed.I'm headed back to Stanley again next month for another photoshoot and b-roll video shoot, it'll be my fourth shoot for them and it's such a fun project for me, already I cannot wait to get back.

Thank you Stanley for trusting me with these photoshoots, they have been so much fun for me to combine my love for adventure with my love for photography.

Bryan

Boise Drone Photographer | Midtown

Drones are so much fun and such an inspiring and unique way to create content.  I find myself really motivated by the ability to capture basically any angle I want (including straight down!), it's enabled me to create some truly unique photo and video content and it's changed the way I go through the process of envisioning photo and video shoots, because now I can not only use my cameras from the ground, but also from the sky.

I do quarterly photoshoots for my client Midtown, and part of my work for them is photo and video work with my drone, which since Midtown is a certain section of Boise, getting drone shots make so much sense, it really showcases the area of Midtown, which includes the Boise River, the Greenbelt, and really close proximity to downtown and also the Boise foothills.  Midtown is in class c controlled airspace, so I am required to get air traffic control approval and to submit flight plans for my work for Midtown, but thankfully technology and apps have made that really easy.  When I got my FAA 107 certification the test said I had to apply for approval 90 days in advance (which is ridiculous and completely unreasonable), so once I got to actually working commercially with my drone, I was thankful that I found a much easier and faster way to get air traffic control approval.

Here's my most recent drone work for Midtown, we squeezed this shoot in at the last minute before winter hit and the leaves fell.

Thanks for taking the time to read and for being here.

Bryan

Boise Videographer | Flashpoint Building Systems

I'm so excited for my clients Pat and Nick, owners of Flashpoint Building Systems.  They entered into Boise State's Hacking for Homebuilding challenge and we're awarded first place last week.  They have an incredibly unique product for the construction industry and I've worked together with them this year to create a promotional video that explains what their product is.  This win got Flashpoint published in an article on Forbes, they had a story on KTVB (which used footage from the video we made), and they had several posts featuring Flashpoint on the Boise Venture College Facebook Page. 

Click those links to see the articles/stories, and the awesome thing for Flashpoint is that all of this exposure links back to their website which features the video we made.When I first met up with Pat and Nick at their shop in Garden City and they explained their product to me I was super excited.  I love innovation and creativity, and Pat and Nick had created something no one else had ever done, and even better yet it involved lasers :).  They've created a way to laser engrave the blueprint of a home or multi-family unit onto the subfloor, what this does is sets the foundation for the framers, electricians, plumbers and other contractors to come in and clearly see the layout of the home.  This removes the margin of error of contractors doing their own measurements, which can save a lot of money and time on unnecessary mistakes, and it also saves contractors time, because they can walk into a home and see the exact layout and placement for their work.

Nick and Pat mentioned that it was difficult for them to explain their product in a way that made sense to the people listening, so it was crucial for the video to be extremely clear and concise, so I brought in Parker Nash to help write a script for the video to make sure that it spoke to Flashpoints target market and got the message across.I filmed this video both at Flashpoint's shop as well as on a home project that was being built using Flashpoint's product.  I was really grateful to the framers who were so kind and really worked with me when I needed to get a specific shot, and put up with my drone hovering overhead while they worked.  I'm a really curious person and my dad was an electrician so I enjoyed being on the jobsite and watching and documenting the process. Nick and Pat, thanks for trusting me and working with me on this project and congrats again on the big win, so excited for Flashpoint and to see your guys' technology and innovation getting put out into the world.

Bryan 

Boise Content Marketer | The Management Essentials

I'm trying to get in the habit of showing more of the work I've been doing, it's easy for that to go to the wayside because of being busy getting the work actually done and serving clients, so I've got a backlog of projects I need to post.  I was grateful to work on another project with Abbey Louie this summer.  We've collaborated on several projects over the last couple of years and I always really enjoy working with her, she's kind and professional and I think her work is really interesting and profound.  One fun thing for me about my work is that I get to learn so much about what my clients do and get a bit of an inside look at their work.  Abbey is a leadership trainer, coach and speaker and she is extremely knowledgable in her field which is training and equipping leaders.   Throughout the projects we've done together I've gotten to witness her working with leadership teams in a live setting and I've filmed lots of testimonials for her and listened to her clients talk about how her work has changed their lives as leaders, and I can clearly see how good she is at what she does.

This most recent project was filming a program video for The Management Essentials a twelve-week live online program that she's created specifically for new managers.  In addition to creating a main program overview video for her to use on her website and online platforms I also filmed three testimonials from her program graduates (who each raved about how awesome Abbey and her program are).  We filmed the videos at Studio Boise up on the bench in Boise (which BTW is a great studio in Boise, it's close to downtown, has easy parking and is run by great people).

The Management Essentials registration closes tomorrow October 19th, if you're new to leadership take a look at this program and the difference it's made for others.

Here's a screenshot from each of the videos, click here to view the videos in use on The Management Essentials website:

Thank you for trusting me on this project Abbey and so great working with you as always!

Bryan

Boise Photographer | Krista Doubleday Counseling

The thing that gives my work meaning is the people. It's always been that way, and if I had to guess, I bet it'll always be that way. Relationships are at the very top of my list of values, and naturally when I picked up a camera and started clicking away, my work naturally focused on people. My hope is always that people can be themselves when I'm taking their picture and that they can see their own beauty. I want the work I create to show people for who they truly are. This is more important than ever in this day and age, we're all online, making snap judgements based on very little context (i.e. a simple photo), so the message we portray in our photos online is extremely important.

Maybe it's my own high value on relationships, but I always find myself photographing people full of heart who are bringing such beautiful work into the world. Krista Doubleday is a therapist in Meridian. Other than the exchange of a few emails, my shoot with Krista was my first time meeting her and I experienced her as so kind and caring. I can see why she has found success as a therapist and experienced how comfortable she can make people feel very quickly. The focus of her photo shoot was to take photos of her for her website and online platforms, and also to show her office in Meridian where she meets with clients. Click here to see Krista's website with these photos in action.

Krista thank you for your kindness and for trusting me to take your photos!

Bryan

Boise Business Photographer | Lamb Wolf Shack

I met Brandi and Matt a couple of years ago, not too long after I had moved to Boise. I've always enjoyed them both, they're kind and down to earth and both such encouraging and loving people. They own two magazines in town, and I always enjoyed meeting up with them to talk and hearing about what was happening in their businesses and their lives. Then they told me about Lamb Wolf Shack, and asked me if I could do a photoshoot and an e-commerce website for them. I was all in and excited to partner on a project with them.

The tagline of Lamb Wolf Shack is Building a Lifestyle of Love. This fits Brandi and Matt so well, as soon as they told me that I thought it was perfect. Since they're running an e-commerce store, we went with Shopify for the platform to build their site on. They're also using Eagle Ridge Apparel a local printer for all of their printing, and Shopify gave us the ability to connect directly to them to send orders over for printing from the site.

For their photoshoot they gathered up 20-ish friends and we went out to the Boise River in Eagle and did a quick and fun shoot, taking photos of the full group of people as well as each person and family group individually. I've found businesses more and more liking to do these shoots where we're able to grab a bunch of content in a short period of time, so Brandi and Matt will have months worth of content to post on their social feeds and we were also able to flesh out the website with custom photos as well. I'll let the photos do the rest of the talking, but here's a link to their new site.

I'm so grateful to work with clients that live out of their hearts, and use their businesses to bring their visions into the world, and Brandi and Matt are doing this beautifully with Lamb Wolf Shack.

Boise Business Photographer | ā café

I'm always so excited to see new cafe's open in Boise. Before I started my business I worked in a cafe in the Portland area, and now (well, pre-covid) I basically use a few different cafe's in Boise as my office (so I still "work in cafe's, so needless to say, a good cafe feels like home in all kinds of ways.

I heard about ā café from Robyn Salathe of MA Architect Studio, Robyn is the architect that the cafe owners worked with. Robyn and I met for coffee at the ā café and I was blown away by how beautiful the space was. Simple minimalist design, a garage door open to the street, food and drinks made with quality ingredients and care. I knew I'd be back here a lot.

Robyn also introduced me to Ashley the owner and she felt like someone I've always known, she was fun and easy to talk to and was always so kind every time I came in. Fast forward awhile, a lot of cups of coffee, and 3/4ths of a year in a global pandemic, and Ashley mentioned she needed to do a photoshoot, of course I was already all in on that. We did a shoot late in 2020, and after that shoot I designed them a new website, (which we launched today!!! ), and helped implement to-go ordering (using square for restaurants, which I now have mixed reviews of). Two of my highest values are relationships and creating things, so I loved creating and collaborating with the ā café crew to create something beautiful that helps meet their goals. Below is a screen shot of the new website, as well as a collection of the images from our shoot. Thank you Ashley and team for trusting me with this project! Also a shoutout to Broadcast Coffee, the coffee ā café serves, who is about to open a brand new shop in Boise, can't wait for it to open!