Adventure Stories

The wild doesn't do second takes.

Expedition and adventure stories — most of them shot from the air — from the places that are hardest to reach.

Where the stories are told

Boulder, Colorado — Home base.
Italian Alps — Expedition photo & film in the Italian Alps — the work that earned Amazing Aerial's attention.
Switzerland — Expedition photo & film in the Swiss Alps.

Field Notes · dispatch stream

Every dispatch from the field.

The territory

The work runs deepest through the Alps — Italy and Switzerland — and across Colorado's Front Range at home, shooting on the ground and from the air. Coverage reaches wherever the story is: festival rooms in Denver, market floors in Los Angeles. The map grows as the work does.

COLORADO · SWITZERLAND · ITALY · NEW MEXICO · CALIFORNIA

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Travel stories

Stories from the field

Living portraits from the places the work goes — the Matterhorn at dusk, Lake Como from the water, the Flatirons at home. Each one opens into its own story.

The Matterhorn above the Zermatt valley, its pyramid summit under a wisp of cloud — Matterhorn · Zermatt

The village of Nesso on Lake Como, the Civera bridge over the gorge waterfall and a boat on the water below — Nesso · Lake Como

Aerial of Ouray, Colorado — the town grid boxed in by canyon walls — Ouray · Colorado

Cloud pouring over a mountain gorge above the Limmernsee, Switzerland — Limmernsee · Glarus

A glacial river threading the rock gorge below the Trift bridge, Switzerland — Trift Gorge · Bern

A waterfall dropping through cliffs above the Ironton forest, Colorado — Ironton · Colorado

Full collection · commercial & editorial licensing

Adventure story · The Savage Woods, Loveland, Colorado

The Colorado Medieval Festival

Two armored knights charging each other down the jousting lists — the Steel & Dust cover

Field Notes No. 01Steel Dust

One weekend a year, The Savage Woods, an event ground in the trees off Savage Road outside Loveland, turns into a tournament ground — full-contact jousting down the lists, armored fighters in the arena, and a few thousand people around the rails. We covered it from the air and the ground, and cut the Knights of Mayhem's showcase piece from it.

Aerial view of a knight on a white horse charging down the jousting lane between festival crowds

Aerial view of the timber combat pen under blue shade sails — armored team bouts, spectators packed at the fence

Read the full story — Steel & Dust

Official role: Amazing Aerial Agency · Aerial work licensed through Amazing Aerial Agency

Vybe · Denver · 2023–2024

In the room with Vybe.

A blue-hour aerial reveal over the Vybe festival grounds beside a lake, string lights glowing through the cottonwoods

Vybe 2023–2024In the roomTwo nights with a Denver arts, music, and dance collective.

Vybe — short for Vibrate Your Best Energy — is a Denver arts, music, and dance collective I've known since 2023. I've covered two of their nights since — the 2023 outdoor festival beside a lake, and the 2024 Boogie Lights show — camera coverage only, nothing official.

An aerial view of the Vybe festival grounds beside a lake in fall, a stage tent and parked cars below distant foothills

A guitarist playing in a live band at golden hour at the 2023 Vybe festival, sunlight through the fall trees

The room at a Boogie Lights show, the band on stage under pink and gold light, the crowd packed in front

Read the full story — In the Room with Vybe

Postcards

Postcards from the road

The smallest stories — one place, one paragraph, a few frames. Filed as they happen.

Postcard · 2024-06-16

The Scandinavian Midsummer Festival

Parfet Park, Golden, Colorado — featuring Nordic Daughter

I spent the closing day of the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival's first year in Golden wandering Parfet Park with a camera — a dance stage on one side of the grounds, a row of vendor tents on the other, and Nordic Daughter playing a set under one of the festival tents that same weekend. That's how I first met them.

Postcard · 2024-07-07

Something for Tomorrow

The Rickhouse, Denver, Colorado

Something for Tomorrow played The Rickhouse in Denver this July night — hard rock, full band, the venue's own screen running the band's name behind the drum riser. Jason Lycan, who also plays guitar in Nordic Daughter, led out front, long hair catching the stage light.

Three Boulder Samba School dancers in orange, green, and blue feathered headdresses, all smiling and facing the camera mid-song, the percussion band behind them

Postcard · 2025-06-22

The Art of Brazilian Living

Levitt Pavilion, Ruby Hill Park, Denver, Colorado

This is Boulder Samba School's outdoor showcase from June 22, 2025, at Levitt Pavilion in Denver's Ruby Hill Park — a bowl-shaped lawn amphitheater with the city skyline behind the stage. I got there early enough to walk the grounds: a food truck, a jewelry tent, the hillside filling in with picnic blankets under a clear sky.

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