My Goal is to Share Meaningful Moments.
My passion may be in creativity, but my goal is to share what's important. Sometimes, what is important is a story, or maybe even just a moment. Other times it could even be an idea! But my goal is to communicate to others why it's worth knowing about, and photography and videography are the perfect medium.
If the goal is to share what's important, you've got to know how to get it out there! I've been lucky to work with a variety of organizations, from marketing agencies, to non-profits, to ministries! Each context has a different target audience, and a different way to reach that audience.
Sometimes the things we want to share haven't happened yet! Maybe it's planning what an event will look like, making the schedule, or even finding the right people to get things on a roll! If you need to make sure your conference is photographed, maybe there's a stage prop you need, or something else, I can help!
Each year at the Arkansas State Baptist Collegiate Ministries (A-State BCM), we try to make a big push to send students on mission trips that will not only benefit the people they minister to, but also trips that can develop our students into stronger, more confident followers of Christ. One of the ways that we do this are through testimonial videos. You can find a few of those videos here.
The BCM sends out a newsletter annually to update alumni on the state of the ministry, to recognize staff, give building updates, share student testimonies, and much more! We had several meetings over what the tone, color scheme, layouts, and overall message to be communicated was, and we (and our alumni) were thrilled with the result! You can download the newsletter here!
Toward the end of the Spring 2024 semester, we realized that it was probably time for an update on the website! We analyzed several other ministries that reach similar audiences with similar goals, and opted for a simplified option, that had less layers. Our goal was for nearly everything to be accessible via the home page or the header menu, and it's felt great! Check out the site at www.astatebcm.com!
Thanks to connections through our campus minister at the A-State BCM I was able to travel to Memphis, TN to attend and work the 2024 Collegiate Summit, a national conference for Collegiate Ministers that happens once every three years. It was a blast to hear from so many talented speakers, meet other ministers & media coordinators, and capture moments that can help Collegiate Summit spread their message even further! You can view the entire collection here!
I got to travel to Chicago with the Arkansas State BCM in March of 2024. I went in with the goal of ensuring that we were able to document as much as feasible without disturbing the mission work at hand so that we could use the media to promote missions in the future. We made a series of six posts while in Chicago, highlighting our different areas of ministry, our times of worship, and our times of fellowship. The photos that we took in Chicago are some of my favorite from the entire year! You can find several in a series of posts on the A-State BCM's Instagram, or my personal favorites (alongside some goofy edits) can be found on my own account here!
In the Fall of 2023, I had the opportunity to photography one of my favorite bands, The Grey Havens, on their Mt. Zion Caravan Tour concert in Little Rock, AR. I got to sit in and photograph their VIP session as well as the entire concert. It was an incredible experience to get to work in coordination with an artist who you enjoy. You can find my favorites here!
I had the absolute honor to return to World Changers in 2023 to spend another summer documenting work sites and getting testimonies from students determined to make a difference! This time not only as a audio-visual specialist, but also as a team leader! My team and I traveled all over the country, hosting or helping host missions camps in places like Lake Charles, LA; Cleveland, OH; Warner Robins, GA; and Panama City Beach, Florida! You can find my highlights here!
A (not so) little known fact is that my Bachelor's is in Computer Science! For my senior project, I lead a group of three other students in building a web app called 'Distro'. Distro's goal was to be a warehouse management database website, inspired by a need for inventory management at that coffee shop I worked at that had opened it's first new location! While the application had approximately 80% completion by the time of submission, we are still proud of what was accomplished! It featured separate user panels for four different types of users (site admins, business owners, warehouse managers, and store managers), account creation (with a verification process to link accounts to businesses), and a fair bit more! A link to our final report can be found here, and our presentation here!
Nearly a year after our first recording, 'As We Gather' let me know they were doing another album recording. This time with more lights, more cameras, and more action (songs)! I got to shoot with several of my friends, holding one of the biggest (and heaviest) camera's I've ever had the pleasure of using. You can find the results on in a playlist here.
During my time working with World Changers, I got in contact with the marketing company who we worked with to promote the organization, Adelsberger Marketing. They informed me of their internship program, where I got to get my toes wet in the marketing world. It was an eye-opening experience to see the media world from a business perspective, and I dove in, getting to be one of the first editors for their new podcast, 'Content Machine'. You can see some of the episodes I've worked on here!
World Changers is a non-profit organization that travels the country setting up Missions Camps to help low-income homeowners make repairs to their homes. They reached out to me for the first time in the Spring of 2022, and were looking for someone who could run audio or shoot video since someone backed out last minute. By sheer luck they knew someone who knew someone who knew me. You can see the videos I made while working with World Changers here.
One of the very first projects I was asked to work on was for As We Gather Worship, a band of friends from near and far lead by the worship pastor of Nettleton Baptist Church in Jonesboro, AR. The then Media Coordinator for Nettleton Baptist, Bryce Paxson, reached out to me asking to be his second-shooter for the project. We shot 3 songs, recording each song twice. It took several hours, and it is one of the most fond memories I have working a project. You can find the videos that I got to help make with 'As We Gather' here!