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 covered the Friday evening social hour at the 1882 Bar at The Lafayette Club. We had a great time mingling and filming. We are very much looking forward to many more fun events to cover in the coming year!
This past week Buffalo Media Group spent a few days shooting photo and video for The Lafayette Club in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota. We have had such a great time so far working with the amazing staff and meeting many wonderful members. Thanks so much Lafayette Club, we look forward to the adventure moving forward!
This past week Buffalo Media Group offered professional photography and some video production work for The Lafayette Club. We covered four shooting days and covered many of the dinners, grounds, activities and of course plenty of amazing dishes and cocktails. We had the pleasure of working with some of the most respected hospitality professionals in the business and we look forward to tons of…
Read MoreThis past week Buffalo Media Group provided professional stock photography for the 1882 Bar at The Lafayette Club. What a seriously cool bar…we had so much fun working with staff and guests on this shoot. We also provided a sneek peak at some of the upcoming drinks for the spring cocktail menu! What so great about this is that we…
Read MoreThis past week Buffalo Media Group was on hand at the annual Explore Minnesota Tourism Conference. This event has not been an in-person event in two years so everyone was pleased to be back in a social environment. There were numerous keynote speeches from great Minnesotan’s such as U.S. Senator Amy Klouchar on live zoom from Washington, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Gophers Head Football Coach P.J. Fleck gave very motivating speeches. Explore Minnesota also formally announced its new Executive Director, Lauren Bennett McGinty. Buffalo Media Group was also on hand to cover the awards ceremony where many industry awards…
Read MoreThis past week Buffalo Media Group started off with our first commercial shoot with The Lafayette Club in Minnetonka Beach right on Lake Minnetonka. We have had the pleasure of covering numerous events with The Lafayette Club through the years and we are so thrilled to be starting a new chapter with these guys in the commercial field. We have long since known about what a fantastic operation the club…
Read MoreThis past week Buffalo Media Group headed up to Grand View Lodge to cover the De’Vine culinary wine weekend. This has been an annual event for 5 years now and we have had the opportunity to cover the promotional video marketing for it. We of course had to sample a few of the wines and small plates. Always such a great time in the north woods of Minnesota right in the heart of winter!
This past Sunday Buffalo Media Group was invited up to Nisswa, MN to cover snowmobiling rental operations for Nisswa Adventure Rentals. This place is so amazing and the staff are very knowledgeable about setting guests up with the right equipment and sending them out of the best trails. The trail system starts right out the front door and straight onto the Paul Bunyan Trail. This is one of the most fun and adventurous things you can do for a half-day or full day in the north woods of Minnesota. They are sporting all new Polaris snowmobiles and great below-zero weather rated gear. They are located just a stone’s throw from Grand View Lodge so access to Gull Lake and the Gull Lake Chain of Lakes is just a few feet away!
This past weekend Buffalo Media Group was in Nisswa, Minnesota covering the Devine weekend hosted by Grand View Lodge. For years Grand View Lodge has been hosting the wine industry leaders for a weekend of tastings and fun. de’Vine Wine and Culinary Weekend brings together a vast array of wines from around the world for your pleasure. We are thrilled to see this event…
Read MoreThe past couple season Buffalo Media Group has found ourselves on the north shore of Minnesota shooting alongside Lake Superior quite a bit in the winter. We have compiled a wintery mix of clips to help further promote the amazingness that the north shore is in the wintertime. Our primary focus has been Tofte and Schroeder with the Temperance River, Lutsen for Cascade State Park and Lutsen Mountains, and Grand Marais for the town and harbor shots as well as Artist’s Point.
This past week Buffalo Media Group was on location in Crosslake to cut some promotional material for the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce. We are new members and are jumping in head first with a lot of steam, enthusiasm, and energy. We have been warmly welcomed as members of the community and look forward to contributing many more videos and promotional material in the future. We are very excited to meet many fellow business owners and help out wherever we can. Here’s to a bright, successful relationship with the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce.
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!
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