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WOW! We did it! Buffalo Media Group covered the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Crosslake this past Saturday. The event is put on by the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce and this huge event has been put on a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. This year, there was nothing holding them back! The weather leading up to the parade was gradually getting warmer and warmer and feeling..
Read MoreThis past week Buffalo Media Group was on a shoot for the Kabetogama Lakes Resorts and were fortunate enough to meet Joey Sabin with Voyageur Outdoor Adventures whose specialty is dogsledding. We were already shooting some video of other activities in the area and he graciously offered to hook up the dogs and allow us to get some footage of his dogsledding operation. This of course was a huge added bonus to our final video. In turn, we cut him a little promo piece as a thank you! Be sure to look up Joey Sabin if you are looking for an authentic dogsledding experience in northern Minnesota on Lake Kabetogama.
This past week Buffalo Media Group was invited up to Lake Kabetogama to cover winter photo and video for marketing. We were first approached by the board of Kabetogama Lakes Resorts in the winter of 2020, during the pandemic. The shoot was unfortunately postponed and 2021 didn’t necessarily shape up as planned as well. So fast forward to now, we received a call from the board asking if we could make it up there…
Read MoreWe did it…Buffalo Media Group scored the cover shot of the 2022 Crosslake Visitor’s Guide!!! We are so thrilled! We have had a spectacular year shooting in the Crosslake area . We have had the great privilege of providing professional photography and video production for the Whitefish Area Lodging Association as well as Boyd Lodge and now we are finding ourselves busy with the local Chambers of Commerce! We are very much looking forward to meeting many new people and business owners in the coming year as well as continuing our amazing relationships with current clients respectively. We are extremely proud to represent The Beauty Spot of Minnesota! Buffalo Media Group splits our studio time between Minneapolis and Crosslake where we run full-service studios. From business headshots to restaurant and hospitality photography, there’s not much we don’t cover. We also offer aerial drone video and photography for events and real estate. Let’s all “Travel Further” together!
This past February Buffalo Media Group headed up to Crosslake, Minnesota for a weekend of snowy fun! We attended numerous events and gatherings that were set up by the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce. The Friday night sledding, bonfires, and fireworks at the community park were a huge hit. Then Saturday was…
Read MoreThis 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!!!
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