Where I work in Utah
Salt Lake valley
Home. Studio downtown, locations everywhere, no travel fee. The Salt Lake City page has the detail.
Utah County: Provo, Orem, Lehi, American Fork
Forty-five minutes south. This is Silicon Slopes, and a large share of my brand campaign and executive headshot work is for companies in Lehi and Draper. I bring the studio to your office. Utah County also has excellent locations that Salt Lake people never use: the shore of Utah Lake, the mouth of Provo Canyon, the fields around Lake Shore and Benjamin.
Ogden and Weber County
Forty minutes north. Historic 25th Street is one of the best urban streets in the state for photographs and has been used in a dozen films for that reason. Ogden is also home to a cluster of outdoor brands, and Powder Mountain and Snowbasin are close.
Park City and the Wasatch Back
Thirty-five minutes east. Editorial, brand and private sessions; its own page.
The West Desert and the Bonneville Salt Flats
Two hours west on I-80. The salt flats are a 30,000-acre white plane managed by the BLM and probably the most photographed landscape in Utah after Delicate Arch. I use them for fine art sessions, fashion and campaigns. They flood in spring, close for racing for several weeks each summer, and commercial work requires a BLM film permit with a lead time. The permits guide covers the paperwork.
Southern Utah: Moab, Hanksville, St George, Kanab
Four to five hours from Salt Lake. Red rock, slickrock, canyon and the kind of emptiness that makes a figure in a landscape read as a statement. I shoot fine art and editorial work here several times a year, usually over two days. The national parks require permits and are crowded; the BLM land around them is neither, and that is where I work. St George has its own growing client base for portraits and beauty and I schedule sessions there when I am south.
Logan, Cache Valley and the north
Ninety minutes. Farmland, a beautiful small downtown, Bear Lake in summer. I go when booked.
Utah is a destination for this work
A meaningful number of my fine art and editorial clients fly into Salt Lake City specifically because of the landscape. It is not hard to see why. Nowhere else in the country can you shoot a white salt horizon at dawn, alpine granite by mid-morning, and mid-century downtown by afternoon. Add red rock with an overnight drive. The airport is large, direct flights come from most major cities, and the whole state is two hours from a rental car counter.
If you are travelling to Utah for a session, tell me your dates and I will build a plan around the light and the season. I handle scouting, permits, and the practical questions about roads, weather and where to stay.
Travel outside Utah
I travel for editorial and campaign work several times a year, mostly to Los Angeles, New York, Denver and Las Vegas, and for private fine art sessions when a client prefers to be photographed at home. Travel is quoted at cost with a travel day rate where the schedule requires one. If your production is somewhere else and you want the look on this site, the maths usually works out: one flight for me is cheaper than a location team and hotel rooms for a crew.
Photographing "near me"
If you searched for a photographer near you and landed here from Sandy, Draper, Lehi, Provo, Ogden, Layton, Bountiful, Tooele, Heber or anywhere along the Wasatch Front: yes, I cover you. Studio sessions mean coming into Salt Lake. Location and office sessions mean I come to you. Travel fees are minor for anywhere within an hour and are on the pricing page.
Questions I get asked
Yes, across Utah and nationally. Within the Salt Lake valley there is no travel fee. Elsewhere travel is quoted at cost.
Many clients do, particularly for fine art and editorial work on the salt flats or in southern Utah. Send your dates and I will plan around the light and handle scouting and permits.
Rarely. They are crowded and require permits with long lead times. The BLM land around them is emptier, freer and, for my work, better.
Yes, regularly. Much of my brand and headshot work is for Silicon Slopes companies, and I bring a mobile studio to offices there.
