Buffalo Media Group: 2025 Year in Review

Stories Lived. Moments Captured. A Year That Defined Our Vision.

As 2025 comes to a close, we look back on a year defined by movement—across states, seasons, industries, and stories. Buffalo Media Group has always been about meaningful, handcrafted storytelling built on relationships and experiences. This year, that ethos took us from misty mountain ranches to bustling Minnesota towns, from neon auroras to the rolling surf of the East Coast tournament circuit.

Each project sharpened our identity. Each collaboration expanded our creative reach. And every frame—photo or film—became a chance to honor place, people, and purpose.

Below is a look back at the stories we told together in 2025.

WINTER–SPRING: New Voices, New Landscapes

In January, Buffalo Media Group made our way down to sunny Phoenix, AZ for the 99th Annual Dude Rancher’s Association Convention.

2025 began with a renewed focus on destination storytelling and creative identity. We refined our visual style—moody, cinematic, and rooted in emotion—across brands like The Wild Blue Films and Buffalo Media Group, building stronger visual systems and logo concepts that better reflected who we are becoming.

In March, Buffalo Media Group hit the road to cover spring steelhead fishing in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, near Traverse City and Frankfort. This time of year always brings back incredible memories of chasing spring steelhead, and the entire experience is nothing short of spectacular.

In late March, Buffalo Media Group was hired by Voyageurs Conservancy to provide media for their marketing and for that of Voyageurs National Park. With this season being the 50th anniversary of Minnesota’s one and only National Park, we were more than excited. We celebrate Voyageurs National Park. It’s a land of water, pine, wildlife, lush forests and history. Relatively untouched and pristine as an uninhabited ecosystem, the wildlife thrives.

We won the cover of the Crosslake Visitor’s Guide in March…our 4th consecutive year winning the cover shot!

Meanwhile, Minnesota tourism was in full swing. We spent the early months crafting scripts and promotional concepts for towns like Northfield, Lakeville, and communities across the Twin Cities Gateway. Whether highlighting winter charm or planning spring content around local attractions, breweries, and restaurant culture, these projects strengthened our commitment to regional storytelling.

This season also brought new partnerships, new apparel ideas, and fresh creative direction as we continued positioning Buffalo Media Group as a leading visual force in tourism, outdoor adventure, and lifestyle branding.

On May 1st we headed up to the north shore outside of Two Harbors, MN for some hot spring steelhead fishing with Catching Adventures. Our second year in a row and for sure again this coming year and years to follow.

SUMMER: Ranches, Rivers, and the Wild Outdoors

Summer 2025 was defined by movement—dust, trails, rivers, and the outdoor spaces where stories breathe.

In June Buffalo Media Group kicked off our out west stint with a stop in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. We revisited long-time clients of our with The Outlook Lodge and the Little Beaver Inn. We love the charm of tis town and all the amazing installation art that makes this such an artist’s haven. It had been five years since we last shot here and were so thrilled to be back and shed some light on all the amazing things that the small town of Green Mountain Falls has to offer.

We were able to make it down to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado is home to the tallest sand dunes in North America—an awe-inspiring centerpiece set within a stunningly diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, forests, alpine lakes, and tundra.

Also in June, we continued our way out west shoot with a shoot at Tarryall River Ranch in Lake George, Colorado. The beauty and majesty that is Tarryall River Ranch and the canyon country it lies in is unreal. It has been six years since we last shot at Tarryall River Ranch and we were so excited to be back.

We continued our journey onto Rawah Guest Ranch in northern Colorado. There simply is no other place like the Rawah Wilderness and the majestic Rawah mountain range, the Medicine Bow mountain range, and the Laramie River Valley. This continues to be a favorite of ours and certainly is still one of the most remote places we have shot. We were last at Rawah Ranch in 2021 where we provided photography and video production. We were so incredibly stoked to be back in the saddle at Rawah Ranch and we look forward to many marketing adventures ahead.

After all the Colorado adventures, we flew from Denver up to Spokane, Washington to conduct video production for Red Horse Mountain Ranch just outside of Coeur d’ Lane, Idaho. We decided to tent camp on this adventure in the northern mountains that surrounded.

In August, our sister company The Wild Blue Films covered sportfishing tournaments on the east coast starting off with The White Marlin Open in Ocean City, Maryland then onto the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Buffalo Media Group grew in scale and style this summer, refining long-form scripts, tourism reels, and emotional brand pieces that set the tone for a strong second half of the year.

A NEW ERA FOR THE WILD BLUE FILMS

If Buffalo Media Group is the mountain and the plains, The Wild Blue Films is the open ocean.

2025 marked a defining chapter as TWBF expanded its presence in the offshore tournament world—producing sizzle reels, on-board content, sponsor collaborations, and high-energy promotional footage for events like:

White Marlin Open
Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tournament
Alice Kelly Ladies Tournament

These weren’t just events—they were full-scale productions that helped establish The Wild Blue Films as a premier storytelling brand in the sport-fishing world.

We also built future-facing marketing materials, sponsorship decks, logos, and a growth roadmap that positions TWBF as a long-term creative partner for major tournaments nationwide.

Come September, our camera traveled north into Michigan for Winding River Campground, where salmon runs, kayak routes, and fall planning became the seeds of future promotional films. When the air turns crisp and the trees ignite in color, Winding River Campground in northern Michigan transforms into a place that feels almost enchanted. The river winds through miles of vibrant hardwoods, mornings unfold in quiet mist, and every campsite is framed by the spectacular glow of autumn. It’s a season made for kayaks drifting through gold reflections, for hikes under canopies of red and amber, and for finally slowing down long enough to breathe.

And then there’s the run.

Each fall, anglers return for one of Michigan’s most thrilling traditions — the salmon migration. Powerful kings that test your grit, bright cohos flashing through the current, and the occasional steelhead that turns an ordinary day into a story you’ll tell for years.

Whether you’re here to chase fish, chase color, or simply make memories with the people who matter, Winding River Campground turns fall into something unforgettable.

FALL: When Minnesota Comes Alive

Autumn always brings out the best in our lens, and 2025 delivered in a big way.

Our work with communities like Lakeville and Northfield captured fall colors, lake culture, harvest-time traditions, and community energy, from apple orchards to farmers markets to crisp morning fishing sessions on Lake Marion.

We also crafted one of the year’s most extensive storytelling threads: a full series of dark, cinematic Halloween pieces for Anoka—The Halloween Capital of the World—as well as additional horror-inspired short films for neighboring towns.

Pumpkins, fog, haunted lore, historic streets, and the unmistakable atmosphere of October became the canvas for some of our most talked-about scripts and video concepts all year.

ART & AESTHETICS: The Year of Shadow, Space, and Fine Art

2025 also marked a breakthrough in how we present photography as fine art. We presented our National Parks of the American West at the Lakeville Arts Show and took home Best in Show - Emerging Artist…pretty darn stoked for that!

We developed multiple dark, moody interior mockups featuring:

Cabin lodge interiors
Tufted cognac leather sofas
Black wood frames and matte paper
Down-lit gallery-style displays

These templates helped elevate our landscape prints—northern lights, moonlit horizons, monochrome wilderness—into premium, gallery-ready presentations.

We also created promotional materials and poster concepts for an upcoming Northern Lights and Minnesota night-sky exhibition, giving this fine-art series its own aesthetic identity.

In November, we hit the open road to give chase to the northern lights and all their magnificent allure. We hit up the north shore of Minnesota and right here in our backyard in Northfield, MN.

BRAND BUILDING & COMMUNITY

We spent significant time in 2025 strengthening not just visuals but relationships:

Crafting tourism stories for Minnesota communities
Producing scripts that celebrate local culture
Highlighting small businesses, dining scenes, and regional adventure
Celebrating the work of fellow creators and partners
Expanding the apparel identity of Buffalo Media Group
And continuing to grow a reputation of trust, professionalism, and creative excellence

This year’s work reaffirmed something we’ve always believed:
The story is bigger than the camera.
It’s built on people.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026

If 2025 was about sharpening our identity, 2026 will be about expansion.

More destinations.
More partnerships.
More long-form storytelling.
More presence in tourism, ranches, outdoor recreation, and the offshore fishing world through The Wild Blue Films.
And a continued commitment to craftsmanship, authenticity, and visuals that make people feel something.

Buffalo Media Group is just getting started.

Here’s to the stories we’ll tell next.