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Everything below was shot on location, by me, while travelling - no stock, no studio, and no set built to resemble somewhere it is not. The writing samples are deliberately mismatched, because a place write-up and a personal essay are two different commissions and you are probably only hiring for one of them.
Daisy and the drive
Pets and housesitting
Landscape
A place written up so somebody can decide whether to bother and what it costs. Verdict first.
Personal essay, from inside the work. A dog, a feeding schedule, and who is actually bending around whom.
The same voice pointed away from my own subject, at buildings and the people who stop to look at them.
If you need somewhere to look like itself, I am useful.
I am not an influencer and I am not going to pretend to be one, because my following is small and you would find that out in about a minute. What I have instead is a camera that is already standing in the places you want filmed, and a year of doing this without a crew, a schedule, or a fixed address to come back to.
So the honest split is this. If you are buying an audience, buy somebody else's. If you are buying content to run on your own channels, that is the thing I make.
I am good for a hotel that wants its rooms shown properly, a vehicle or outdoor brand that needs its kit used rather than unboxed, and a publication that wants a place written up by somebody who actually went. I am not the right call for a studio shoot, a product I have not touched, or a script that needs reading to camera in somebody else's voice.
Reach, and the thing that matters more than reach.
On Instagram, of which 97.6% were not following me. This is what the work reaches, not an audience I can promise you.
Most people who find me there were looking for something specific, and found it.
That second number is the one worth your time. These are real queries that brought people to my videos:
- mandalay bay suites room tour
- mgm room upgrade hack
- mgm marquee 2 bedroom las vegas
- bronco sport off roading
- bonneville salt flats vlog
- snowbird tram ride
Hotel rooms and the truck. These are people with something already in mind, typing it into a search box, and landing on a video I made - which is a materially different thing from being scrolled past by somebody who was not looking for anything.
Instagram and TikTok figures read from source on 28 August 2026. I would rather show you a dated number than a rounded one.
Three things, and you set the scope.
- Video
- Vertical or landscape, cut for wherever you are running it. Room tours, the drive, and kit in use.
- Photos
- Stills from the same trip, shot properly rather than pulled as frames from the video.
- Written pieces
- Place write-ups, guides, and essays. Three samples are above and they read nothing alike, which is the point rather than an accident.
Lengths are negotiated and so are topics. I would rather build the brief with you than sell you a package that nearly fits, because the nearly-fitting version is the one everybody ends up regretting.
About a week, even when I am driving.
- You brief me
What you need, where, and what you are running it on.
- I shoot on location
Often somewhere I am already going. If not, we work out getting there.
- About a week
Cut, captioned and colour-corrected, travelling or not.
- Files, usage agreed
Delivered in the formats you asked for, yours to run.
- Turnaround
- Roughly a week for most things, and that holds while I am travelling rather than collapsing the moment I am on the road. If a date is genuinely tight, say so before we start rather than after.
- Usage
- Agreed per project. What you need it for changes what it costs, so it is a conversation and not a boilerplate licence.
- Rates
- Per project. I do not publish a price list, because the same video is not the same job twice.
- Where I am
- Moving, and mostly around the western US. If you need somewhere specific, ask - I might already be going.
Tell me what you need and what it is worth.
Three fields, and the budget band is required. Rates are per project, so the band is what saves us both a fortnight of circling before discovering we were never in the same range.