Hi, I'm Brandon
I'm a full-time filmmaker and photographer driven by an insatiable need to experience this world—every corner, peak, canyon, overlook; you get the idea.
My early life doesn't make for a pretty origin story. At 19, I joined the Air Force as a firefighter. A choice made not out of patriotic duty, but out of desperation. I was running. From home, from family, from everything I couldn't name yet. It was an unpopular choice. I made it anyway. Walking away felt exactly like those movie scenes where the protagonist strolls from a fireball without looking back. And honestly? It felt that good.
What followed were years in the first responder world—the kind of work that gets into you and doesn't leave. Tragedies so routine it starts to feel like you're simply reacting to changes in the weather. It wasn't sustainable, and it was never meant to be. Something in me always knew I was built for a different life. I bought my first camera at 27, stayed the course, and kept shooting. I left firefighting in 2020, just before the pandemic, and took on a part-time job as a 911 dispatcher in a very busy metro area—just to pay the bills and grow my business.
I'm 34 now. Married. Surrounded by love that's real and chosen—built with someone who shares not just my interests, but my core values. Together we've covered over 72,000 miles in a van, hiked hundreds of miles, and stood on more summits than we can count. And every single time, we come back from each journey with a bucket list longer than what we started with.