Buffalo Media Group is a multi-media production studio specializing in photography and video production for luxury resorts, lodges, and guest ranches across the United States and Central America.
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This past week Buffalo Media Group found ourselves in the winter wonderland of northern Minnesota. We always pass through Crosby on our way to the cabin and shoots with resorts and I have started to see a lot of Cuyuna Cove stuff pop up on my Instagram feed. I loved the vibe and lifestyle they were promoting. There’s tons of outdoor winter activities, restaurants, and antique stores just a stone’s throw away….
Read MoreThis past year was a whirlwind and in that craziness we still found a chance to reach to local communities to help strengthen brands and promote tourism with local businesses. We had the great pleasure of meeting with, and subsequently becoming members with, the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce. Buffalo Media Group has been welcomed with very open arms. We are looking forward to so many exciting and creative business opportunities, not only with the Chamber of Commerce but with other local businesses to help create a unified look and style. Cheers guys…it’s going to be a wild ride for sure!
Super 8mm Project - Around the Campfire Series
We are looking to promote hospitality and tourism alike by incorporating 8mm video into marketing. 8mm has a very vintage, nostalgic feel that conjures up true emotion and taps right a the core of imagination and thoughts of times past.
We have been receiving great praise and amazing feedback for our 8mm work this past year in northern Minnesota shooting for the resorts. We will once again be toting the 8mm with us on our shoots this year. We offer it as an add-on to photo/video packages.
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!!!
Buffalo Media Group has concluded our year long shoot for the Whitefish Area Lodging Association. It has been a wonderful experience to say the least.
Our first shoot started over the first weekend of March. We were able to capture events and outings despite numerous Covid-19 restrictions and concerns. This was certainly one of the biggest challenges we faced from square one. There was still plenty of fun to be had like ice-skating, bon-fires, snowmobiling, and good ole-fashioned snowball fights and building snowmen.
Our next shoot took place over the Minnesota Fishing Opener which we picked because of the cultural significance of fishing in Minnesota and that weekend in particular. The shoot ended up being a huge success. The weather was more than cooperative, reaching into the low-70’s which made for some hot fishing action. We were able to capture people landing big northern pike and monster walleye right at the dam in town.
The third shoot was the summer session for the Association. We were able to capture summer fun on the lakes at its best. There was plenty of sunbathing, water sports, tubing, and just casual cruising on the chain of lakes going on. Plenty of boat traffic in front of The Wharf and Moonlite Bay made for some great photos and video. The endless summer evenings made for exceptional footage and really encapsulated a northern Minnesota evening on the Whitefish Chain of Lakes.
Lastly, we rounded out the final portion of the shoot with the autumn session. We specifically chose the weekend that we thought would have the highest peak in color. We had great fall foliage and there were plenty of hikers and bikers out. The fishing action was in full force as anglers were squeezing in the last of the nice weather before winter would arrive again.
Buffalo Media Group handled all the pre-production, storyboarding, conceptualization, model usage, direction, production and post-production of all the shoots. We were solely in charge of providing the finished product deliverables after each respective shoot as well as doing our part to host the images and video on various social media platforms.
Buffalo Media Group spent a great deal of time in the north woods on the Whitefish Chain of Lakes this entire year. We were able to capture enough footage for this three part, mini-series of vintage 8mm throwback films. We loved creating this body of work and finding the music selections to fit the mood and culture that is life in the north woods of Minnesota!
This is our second installment of “A Crosslake Story” shot in vintage 8mm film. Buffalo Media Group spent a good part of our summer shooting for resorts and local attractions in the Brainerd Area of Lakes alongside the Whitefish Chain of Lakes in Crosslake, Minnesota. We hope you all enjoy! More Crosslake Stories coming in the future!
This past March Buffalo Media Group headed up to Crosslake, MN on a shoot for Whitefish Area Lodging Association. Aside from capturing everything on professional gear, we took time to break out the vintage 8mm film camera and this is what we got! Love that thing! Hope you all like!
Buffalo Media Group has teamed up with Taylor Fly Fishing to cover some video production for an upcoming new product release which will officially launch sometime in December. We have enjoyed being able to demo some of their fine products…they certainly are in a class of their own!
This past week was the first time I was able to peel away in a long while to do a product shoot for Taylor Fly Fishing. We have been working with Taylor Fly Fishing for a few months now and it has been a truly wonderful experience so far! Buffalo Media Group along with our friend Chris, a board member for the Twin Cities chapter of Trout Unlimited, lended his time, talent, and expertise for…
Read MoreBuffalo Media Group headed up to Crosslake this past week to conclude our final shoot for Whitefish Area Lodging Association. This also happened to be our last travel shoot this year. There’s still a six weeks left until the new year so we’ll see what else presents itself. We have had a wonderful time exploring the Whitefish Area lakes and meeting so many new people. From business owners to…
Read MoreThis past Labor Day weekend Buffalo Media Group headed up to the north shore of Minnesota to cover commercial videography for Explore Minnesota. This was our first gig with Explore Minnesota and hopefully more to come. We were approached and asked to cover some key north shore towns such as Two Harbors and Grand Marais. We are very familiar with the entire drive up the Lake Superior coast so we made a few additional stop-offs at Split Rock Lighthouse, Iona Beach, Black Beach, Gooseberry Falls, and Lutsen. Thanks so much Explore Minnesota for this awesome opportunity!
Buffalo Media Group was on-location in northwestern Minnesota recently and stopped into one of our favorite and coolest pubs in Minnesota…22 Northmen Brewing Co. Of course, that’s our opinion and you just have to find out for yourselves. The whole brew hall is a work of art and we can’t wait to…
Read MoreThis past week Buffalo Media Group was in Brainerd, Minnesota to cover more hospitality photography for Cragun’s Resort. There are a lot of new changes going on here at this already great resort. We are excited to see what is to come and look forward to more of the journey with…
Read MoreBuffalo Media Group kicked off our first shoot of September on the northern shores of Lake Superior. Buffalo Media Group was recently hired by Explore Minnesota to provide content for marketing. We were tapped to cover some of the quaint, picturesque towns that dot the north shore, namely Grand Marais, Lutsen, and Two Harbors. Glad we are so very familiar with the north shore because this…
Read MoreWOW! We are are excited to announce that we were recently picked up by Duluth Trading Company to shoot their new line of clothing for the fall/winter season. Being from Minnesota and loving the up north vibe, we have been longtime fans of their clothing and their clever marketing! Our first shoot for Duluth Trading Company led us out to Simsbury, Connecticut for a lifestyle shoot with Matt V. in his design studio, IKAG. For the most part, we were a fly on the wall and rarely interjected rather taking a documentary…
Read MoreThis week Buffalo Media Group was on location in the Crosslake and Brainerd area covering hospitality photography for Cragun’s Resort. We are excited to have been brought on for professional photography…certainly a longtime in the making. We were welcomed with open arms and big smiles. There are a ton of new changes going on at Cragun’s Resort and we are thrilled to be along for the ride. We are very…
Read MoreThis past late June Buffalo Media Group covered commercial videography for Boyd Lodge in Crosslake, Minnesota. Located right on the Whitefish Chain of Lakes, Boyd Lodge is perfectly situated right in the middle. Endless summer fun abounds at this treasure of a resort! We had the best time capturing all the fun activities of family fun and endless summer sunsets. Thanks so much everybody at Boyd Lodge for choosing Buffalo Media Group as your Minnesota resort videographer, you guys are the best!
This summer just keep getting better and better! This past June Buffalo Media Group headed up to Crosslake, Minnesota to cover commercial photography and video production for the Whitefish Area Lodging Association. This is ur third installment shooting for WALA and are looking forward to finishing strong with a glorious fall color shoot come September!
This past week Buffalo Media Group ventured up the Whitefish Chain of Lakes area to cover commercial photography and video production for Boyd Lodge. What an amazing resort….hands down one of the very finest run resorts in Minnesota. There were no stones left unturned…
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