Timeless | Top US Resort and Lodge Photographer

Timeless | Top US Resort and Lodge Photographer

This summer Buffalo Media Group has been traversing much of the American West on photo shoots and we were fortunate enough to make it out to arguably the best National Park in America, Yellowstone! Yellowstone National Park is a nearly 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot. Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho too. Yellowstone features dramatic canyons, alpine rivers…

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Freeze | Top Minnesota Resort Video Production

This past week Buffalo Media Group headed up to Lake Mille Lacs to cover video production and photography for Lake Mille Lacs Tourism. We had excellent weather with some amazing ice crystals on the trees in the mornings. We covered a lot of ground making the lap around the lake a few times to cover all the small towns and resort communities that surround this enormous inland lake. Thanks so much for choosing Buffalo Media Group as your Minnesota hospitality video production studio. Let’s have an amazing year!

Conclusion | Top US Resort Photographer

Buffalo Media Group is so thankful this past year to work with so many amazing new and longtime clients.  We trotted the globe petty good.  We never thought we would be up to Alaska four times, down to Belize shooting for numerous resorts for a week and shooting in Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming.  We of course had our amazing Minnesota and Wisconsin clients on board as well.  We saw Hawaii Volcanos National Park and Katmai National Park for the very first time...both are beyond words.  We were picked up by Duluth Trading Company for a shoot out in Connecticut.  We also did product photography for Abel Reels, Winston Rods and Taylor Fly Fishing.


Our year started off with an amazing shoot with Mountain Inn at Lutsen.  Teri and James are such wonderful people to work with and a ton of fun!  From there, the next 6 weeks would be spent on the road.  We were next up at Grand View Lodge covering winter activities, then over to Pitlik's Sand Beach Resort, Boyd Lodge, Red Door Resort, and Chena Hot Springs Resort and Whitefish Area Lodging Association.  After a family vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii, Buffalo Media Group was back on the road down to Belize for shoots with Blue Horizon Lodge, Thatch Caye Resort, and Sweet Songs Jungle Lodge.


Buffalo Media Group partnered with Hospitality Minnesota, Explore Minnesota, and became Chamber members in Brainerd, Crosslake, and Pequot Lakes.


After a few weeks home planting our garden, some of you may have got some of our NORTHWOODS Hot Sauce, we were back on the road for a 13-Day, 4-flight journey which kicked off the first week of June with a flight up to Fairbanks, Alaska for a shoot with Chena Hot Springs Resort.  Next, it was off to Rawah Ranch in northern Colorado.  Then we left Rawah Ranch and flew into Jackson Hole for a shoot with Lazy L & B Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming.  We spent the rest of June shooting up in Crosslake for Whitefish Area Lodging Association and Boyd Lodge.


July started off with a very amazing shoot with Drowsy Water Ranch over in Granby, Colorado then onto Pitlik's Sand Beach Resort in Eagle River, WI.  The last week of July we headed up to King Salmon, Alaska for our first shoot with Alaska Rainbow Lodge.  We cannot begin to describe all the amazing shooting and adventure we experienced in a week shooting for them.  There would also be a follow up shoot we did for them in September as well.


Now we are into August and Buffalo Media Group was once again invited back by our friends over at Nine Quarter Circle Ranch to cover photography and video production.  We were so thrilled to be back there!  After that, we were welcomed by first time clients Leland Lodge over in Leland, Michigan right outside Traverse City along the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.  Also in August we were hired by Cragun's Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota and Explore Minnesota for a shoot documenting the north shore of Minnesota along Lake Superior.


September brought about a ton of shooting over in Eagle Lake, WI for Pitlik's Sand Beach Resort and their other business.  Buffalo Media Group did our final shoot for Whitefish Area Lodging Association and our other shoot with Alaska Rainbow Lodge.  October brought about the great hot pepper harvest and hot sauce making parties in our driveway in Northfield, MN. November and December were busy editing and getting ready for the holidays.  We did pop over to Paris and London for 10 days to catch up on some well needed family time in November.


Aside from all our hospitality work, we still ran our portrait studio, Graddy Photography and our commercial studio at a very high volume.  We covered 15 weddings and 71 families sessions, seniors sessions, and corporate sessions.


Our commercial business,Graddy Commercial, welcomed many new clients this year such as Legends Golf Course, Liberty Plastics, Newport Academy, Variant Insurance, and Varitronics to name a few.  We also were hired by Hosanna Church! to cover stock photography of all their extended campuses....quite the honor.  


We are so thankful to have stayed healthy and have had so many safe travels via in the air or on the ground.  Many thanks to all our family, friends, peers, and clients (old and new) for your support and allowing us to do the job we love so much!  Cheers and here's to a great New Year!!!

Freeze | Top Crosslake Resort Photographer

Freeze | Top Crosslake Resort Photographer

This past weekend Buffalo Media Group found ourselves in the north woods of north central Minnesota shooting stock photography for Boyd Lodge. This is our first shoot for Boyd Lodge and we were welcomed with open arms and warm cabins. First thing we did was light a log burning fire to warm us up. The high temperatures during the day doubtfully even reached zero degrees…Uff Dah! The days were sunny and crisp and were actually really…

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Basecamp | Northern Minnesota Resort Photographer

Basecamp | Northern Minnesota Resort Photographer

This past week Buffalo Media Group kicked off our 2021 season with a much anticipated shoot with Mountain Inn at Lutsen in northern Minnesota along Lake Superior. We have been in contact with Mountain Inn at Lutsen since last fall when we stayed there. We immediately befriended the amazing staff there and opened dialogue on possibly shooting for them. At the time, they were just getting ready to start some a complete renovation of their property. True to their word, Buffalo Media Group was contacted once the renovations were complete and a date was set.

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