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Photographer · Jerome, Arizona
Editorial, commercial, and lifestyle photography. Award-winning, FAA Part 107 aerial-capable.
Hi. I'm Tex.
I'm a North Coast filmmaker and photographer, voted Humboldt County's Best. Editorial, commercial, and brand photography in Jerome runs across portrait sessions, hospitality and restaurant brand work, real estate listings, and the kind of long-form editorial that turns a small business into a recognizable local brand.
My job is to put you, your team, or your space in front of the most cinematic light Jerome and the surrounding Yavapai County have to offer, and to do it in a way that doesn't feel staged. No corporate-stock smiles. No templated compositions. Just real, intentional, editorial photography that reads as a brand asset, not a stock photo.
Now booking Jerome photography sessions and brand campaigns.
A note from Jerome
Editorial and destination photography in Jerome, Arizona, award-winning photography across Cleopatra Hill, the Jerome State Historic Park, Mingus Mountain overlooks, and the National Historic Landmark mining-town district. Dramatic copper-mining-history editorial backdrops in the Verde Valley.
The Approach
The Jerome location
Jerome is a National Historic Landmark perched on Cleopatra Hill, a vertical mining town with copper-rust architecture, dramatic Verde Valley overlooks, and a density of editorial backdrops per block that's hard to beat in Arizona. Most Jerome photography is destination editorial, fly-in couples wanting a moody historic-mining-town backdrop for engagement sessions, brand campaigns for the wine bars and inns of Main Street, and the occasional film/TV location-scout work the town quietly handles year-round.
The Jerome session
A shoot in Jerome moves with the hill. We start high on the Cleopatra Hill overlooks while the Verde Valley still holds morning haze, then work down through the copper-rust storefronts and vintage signage on the way to Main Street. The grounds at Jerome State Historic Park give us restored mining-era buildings and room to breathe. No set poses. We watch how someone stands against the old industrial textures and shoot from there.
The Yavapai County scouting advantage
You learn this town by walking it in different seasons. The light hits the west-facing storefronts late, so the sunset window on the overlooks is short and worth waiting for. Winter mornings stack fog in the valley below while Jerome sits clear above it. The streets are steep and narrow, parking is tight, and the good corners turn over fast. Knowing where to be, and when, is most of the work here.
Now booking, Jerome
Jerome sessions and brand campaigns book on a rolling calendar, weekday brand work fills first, weekend portrait dates fill around it. Send a note with your timeline and we'll find the right window.
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The Editing Process
A wedding film isn't shot in a day, it's made over months. Hours of raw cinema footage, multi-camera audio, drone aerial, and second-shooter coverage get assembled, color-graded, and scored frame by frame in the edit suite.
Every transition is intentional. Every cut earns its keep. The goal is a film couples actually want to re-watch, not a montage of clips. That kind of editorial discipline is the difference between a wedding film and a wedding highlight reel, and it's why these turnarounds run weeks instead of days.
Venues + Locations
Vertical-stacked town views with the Verde Valley and red rocks beyond. Sunset-window editorial.
Copper-rust storefronts, vintage signage, mining-era industrial textures.
Restored mining-era buildings and dramatic high-elevation grounds.
What's Included
Medium-format-quality stills with the dynamic range to handle harsh sun, golden hour, and overcast equally well, print-grade detail at billboard scale.
FAA Part 107 commercial drone work integrated when the project calls for elevation, coastal, redwood, and architectural scale shots.
Full-resolution edited JPEGs and TIFFs, ready for billboard-scale printing or web-optimized for digital deployment.
Password-protected gallery for clients and approved guests, easy downloads, easy sharing, no third-party watermarks.
Commercial and editorial usage rights negotiated at proposal stage, broadcast, print, and digital licensing terms made clear up front.
How It Works
We talk on the phone or meet at the Eureka studio. I learn what you need photographed, when, and what the deliverables look like.
Within 24 hours of our call, I send a written proposal with scope, timeline, and pricing. Signed agreement and deposit reserves the date.
Location scouting, shot list refinement, and any logistics coordination, venue permits, model releases, scheduling.
Day-of execution. professional camera setup, drone where called for, ambient and supplemental lighting as the project requires.
2–3 weeks for portrait/editorial, 6–8 weeks for full wedding galleries. Rush delivery available on request for press deadlines.
Investment
Photography pricing is project-specific. Send a note describing what you need. Tex replies within 24 hours with a tailored proposal.
Photographer in Jerome. FAQs
Nearby photography cities
Flexible on where you shoot? Many clients book a hometown location + a destination second location in the same day. Below are the other cities where I'm currently booking photography, same playbook, same editorial eye, different backdrop.
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