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Breckenridge Skiing Wedding at Peak 8


Olivia + Lucas had the epitome of a mountain classy Breckenridge skiing wedding. It was perfect in every way.


Breckenridge Elopement Photographer + Videographer; Breckenridge skiing wedding

Did you know that a Breckenridge skiing wedding is totally a thing?! As a Colorado wedding photographer & videographer, we’ve seen a lot of really cool ideas!

We won’t claim to be experts in skiing weddings. In fact, we partnered with the lovely Gabrielle with Ski the Day for this day – she’s the best, hands down. We were so thrilled she was available to join Dave for a couple hours on the slopes by The Grand Colorado at Peak 8 documenting Olivia & Lucas. Dave on video, which you can watch below, and Gabrielle on photo for the skiing shots!

The rest of O+L’s perfect day was spent at Sapphire Point, where they held their ceremony. The couple worked directly with Ebs & Natalie with Distinctive Mountain Events to create a perfectly Colorado wedding. Personalized Yetis & tartan scarves and gorgeous floral by Garden of Eden sealed the deal.

Finally, we wrapped it up with some portraits at the River Walk, and at Modis Breck for dinner & sparkler desserts.

We loved spending their beautiful Breckenridge skiing wedding day with them, and we are so happy to share it with you!

Wanna see their rad video teaser?

And, we’re so happy to share their full film!

Here’s what Olivia + Lucas had to say about working with us.

Seriously AMAZING! We love it! Looking for a picture frame that can play videos so I can show everyone that comes over lol! Showed my family and my mom cried. It was so beautiful and reminded us of just how perfect our wedding day was. I don’t think many couples get to say that their wedding day was truly perfect with zero issues and they wouldn’t do anything differently. Thank you thank you for being awesome! Currently trying to think of where to go for our next ski vacation over our 1 year anniversary and this just made us more excited for planning and just debating about going back to Breckenridge! That town is just the perfect ski town. No where else compares… it was beyond perfect for our wedding! 

Olivia + Lucas

What an amazing winter wedding! It was truly a Colorado wedding photographer & videographer’s dream.


Photo & Video: Basecamp Visual
Ceremony Venue: Sapphire Point
Florals: Garden of Eden
Planning: Distinctive Mountain Events
Reception: Modis, Breck
Associate Ski Photographer: Ski the Day


Crafting really beautiful films + photos for the wild at heart, Basecamp Visual is a Breckenridge, Colorado based videography and photography team run by us, a husband and wife duo, Dave & Shanna. Are you on the hunt for a creative storytelling team for your upcoming Colorado (or other amazing places) intimate wedding or elopement? Interested in a session just because? Let’s talk about it! Contact us today to learn more.

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What We Invested in as a Brand to Grow our Business


Read to see what we’ve invested in as a brand to grow our business. As every business owner knows – you need to spend money to make money!


Breckenridge Brand Photographer & Videographer

We’re grateful to operate businesses that don’t include a ton of overhead. As far as investments we’ve made as a brand to grow our business, we feel so lucky to not be bogged down by multiple thousands of dollars in expenses every month. That said, we still need to spend money to make money!

There are so many facets to business ownership – aside from taxes & health insurance (the super boring and stressful stuff) – we also need to invest in the operating tools to run our websites, deliver our galleries & films, bring in new clients, edit, manage each project we book, and more.

Here are a few of the best investments we’ve chosen to make as a brand to grow our business.

Website Hosting

Every business needs a website. We’re in love with ours! Just over a year ago, we made the switch to Pro.Photo hosting. We’ve had our WordPress theme (what you’re looking at) through them since the beginning, and when they recently restructured to a managed self-hosting platform, it was a no brainer. We got to keep our existing site and now have fantastic customer service (which has come in handy multiple times), easy customization, and one less company to split our website needs between.


Blogging Platform

We write our blogs directly on our WordPress platform and import the photos using Narrative Publish. Could we simply use WordPress for the photos, too? Sure, absolutely. And for some blogs with minimal imagery, we do! When we’re blogging full weddings however, we love the ease of Narrative’s drag and drop design, and that you can include your Alt text/image descriptions, meta descriptions, and more. Plus, it helps us create just really beautiful blog posts. Pretty is priority, isn’t it?


SEO Audit

Among the most recent investments we’ve made as a brand to grow our business was a SEO Audit by Green Chair Stories. SEO has been one of the most baffling elements of business ownership. It hasn’t come naturally to us and as such, has been lacking across the board. When Rachel announced they were offering audits now we jumped right on it! Working with Jessica was streamlined and simple, and we’re SO EXCITED to see the improvements to our SEO scores and rankings. Now, we’re twiddling our thumbs waiting on Google to catch up to all the updates she made for us. C’mon, Google!


Photo Editing Team

The decision to outsource our photo editing has been life-changing for us. It’s helped us gain so much time back! We happily work exclusively with Photographer’s Edit using the following process: I edit all previews & cull the gallery using a star and color flagged system; the culled gallery is exported and the catalog uploaded to Dropbox, and then submitted to Photographer’s Edit. They apply the edits I’ve made on my previews and send back the completed gallery. I then spend time completing any spot edits, cropping/straightening, and creating my black and whites. I love this process as it still allows us to have a hand in each step, but saves me anywhere from 20-40 HOURS on the initial coloring of each image.


Coffee & Childcare

Okay, maybe these aren’t exactly business investments, BUT they are a necessary part (and a good chunk of money) of business ownership for us. We live and breathe by our Breville espresso maker & beans from Jackie’s Java in Fort Collins. Our babysitter is a live-saver and I won’t be sharing her information because her availability is already far too limited. 😉


CRM

We made the call back in 2019 to invest a lifetime plan from Dubsado, our Client Relationship Management system. We’ve not regretted it for a second. Dubsado is the platform we use for all booking/scheduling – it’s how we send our invoices and contracts; it’s where we keep our calendar; it keeps track of our client contact information and keeps us on track with editing, blogging, delivery, and more. We under-utilize it – but that’s only because it’s so robust. It’s a 2023 goal to implement workflows and automation. Certain our lives will be fully changed once we do that.


Content Delivery Platform

Every time we delivery a completed gallery, it’s sent through our platform, Pic-Time. We’ve been impressed with the beautiful interface, user-friendliness, and the inclusion of the print shop. We don’t currently put a lot of effort into selling tangible prints (things like albums, canvases, prints, etc), but to have the Shop included and available for clients who are interested in purchasing.


Contracts

And last, but absolutely not least important – you really shouldn’t work in this industry without a solid written-by-a-lawyer contract. We’ve worked with Allie Moore with Creatives Learn Law on contracts for both Basecamp Visual & Summit Mountain Weddings and it’s been one of the best investments to grow our business that we’ve made. We’d recommend the hell out of her, but she’s making a career change, and we couldn’t be happier for her!

What would you add to this list? We’d love to hear!

*Cover photo from our photo & video storytelling session with Lauren Rich Creative.


Ready to revamp the way you share your passion or space with the world? Get in touch today to start the conversation about your Colorado brand project. We specialize in telling brand stories in the Breckenridge, Fairplay, and Buena Vista, Colorado areas *but we’ll go anywhere for the right project!* and we’d love to talk about yours.

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How to Choose the Best Breckenridge Engagement Photographer


You’re newly engaged and searching for a Breckenridge engagement photographer. Here’s how to choose the best one for you.


Breckenridge Engagement

When you’re searching for a Breckenridge engagement photographer, it’s also no secret that you’ve got plenty to choose from. How do you pick? How do you know you’ve chosen the right one? We’re to help.

It’s no secret we love engagement sessions. What a perfect, easy way for us to get to know our clients and for you to get the experience of being in front of the camera before your wedding day! Choosing the right photographer for your engagement session is so important. It’s even more important when that same photographer will also be covering your wedding!

Are you searching for a Breckenridge Engagement Photographer? Here are a few tips we want to share to help you find the best one… for you!

Review portfolios to find the perfect style.

Light and airy. True to color. Moody. Colorful. Muted. Documentary. Posed. I’m sure you’ve seen many of these terms in your search. Spend the time looking at photographer’s Instagrams and websites. Ask to see full galleries. Most engagement and wedding photographers edit in a specific way and won’t change that part of their process. Make sure you FALL IN LOVE with the work of the person you’ll hire. What you see is a pretty good indicator of what you’ll get.

Find someone local!

This, for a million reasons. There are so many amazing Breckenridge elopement photographers who live within 45 minutes of Main Street Breck. Any of them would LOVE to work with you & you’ll rest easy that your photographer won’t get stuck on I-70 trying to get to your session.

If you’re choosing to schedule your session here, it’s likely because you love it! The people who choose to live in the mountains do, too – by hiring local you’re supporting a photographer who loves this special place just as much as you do. There’s also flexibility if you need to reschedule. Locals live here so if you find you need to request a reschedule, we’ll still be here for ya.

And finally, you’ll have access to THE BEST spots. Like this Alex & Cody’s session below – this was on our private property, which you have exclusive access to when ya book with us. It’s just 40 minutes south of Breck – with beautiful views the entire way!

Have a friendly conversation to make sure you vibe.

Of equal importance to jiving with the style (see the first note above), you gotta love the person! Make the time to have a conversation – even via email or text is totally fine. You want to genuinely like each other!

Consider booking the same photographer for your engagement session AND wedding!

Most Breckenridge engagement photographers (like us!) include a complimentary engagement session in their wedding collections. Read: FREE ENGAGEMENT SESSION. This is not only a great value, but it’s the perfect opportunity to get to know your photographer even more. It’s like we always say – how much more fun does it sound to feel like friends on your wedding day than to have just met for the first time?

What do you think? We hope this was helpful. While you’re here, Enjoy Alex + Cody’s playful engagement gallery!

If you loved this engagement session, click here to view more!


Crafting really beautiful films + photos for the wild at heart, Basecamp Visual is a Breckenridge, Colorado based videography and photography team run by us, a husband and wife duo, Dave & Shanna. Are you on the hunt for a creative storytelling team for your upcoming Breckenridge (or other amazing places) engagement session? Interested in a session just because? Let’s talk about it! Contact us today to learn more.

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Maximizing a Short & Sweet Elopement


Ericka & Spencer’s day was so special. They planned a short & sweet elopement and we fully maximized our time together.


short & sweet elopement

Do you really just want to keep your elopement day as simple as possible? We get that!

We spent just 2 hours with Ericka & Spencer. It was truly a short & sweet elopement. And it was perfect.

Sometimes you get to the end of an elopement day and you wish it wasn’t over yet. I imagine that’s just the effect that Spencer & Ericka have on people. They’re the kind of people who are easy to love & make ya want to be around them.

These two were married in a simple, emotional ceremony officiated by Spencer’s childhood friend, Josiah (or, infanthood rather – they’ve known each other since they were just months old!). Surrounded by string lights and mountains and the trees, they laughed a lot and cried a little – and maybe I did, too.

Here’s how we maximized their short & sweet elopement.

  • They were relaxed & ready to have fun!
  • We kept our locations very nearby.
  • We all laughed together & became immediate friends.

That’s it.

That might seem too easy, but it’s all true. When you allow yourselves to be joy-filled and relaxed both with each other and with your photographer, you can make anything happen in a short amount of time.

You’ll never believe we did all this in just two hours! Just watch out – you might fall in love with these two as quickly and easily as I did.

Read what Ericka & Spencer shared about their experience with us!

Shanna was INCREDIBLE!! Whatever you envision for photos on your wedding day, imagine (if possible) something even greater, and that’s what you’ll get if you go with her. She was such a radiant and positive addition to our special day. We eloped in the Colorado mountains and wanted scenic and memorable photos. She delivered and then some. Her attention to detail, her creative ideas and her approach to telling each couple’s story are just a few of the many highlights. We enjoyed our time with her so much that I actually felt a bit of sadness when she left! We will forever treasure the photo memories she gave us & if you’re debating on who to go with, choose Basecamp Visual. Your future self will thank you!

The Bride, Ericka

But wait – there’s more!

Shanna was awesome! We are kind of a rowdy bunch and she jumped right in without skipping a beat. Super friendly, fun and energetic. We had a blast shooting with her. None of her ideas felt like chores to do at all it was all just flowing nicely and honestly REALLY FUN. She worked really hard to get us a sneak peek super fast, the photos are UNREAL. We are so lucky to have had our experience enriched with her presence and outstanding work. After sharing photos, We were met with comment after comment, “This should be on the cover of a magazine”. Her choices for color tone were exactly what we wanted and we really felt like she captured our personalities through her craft. So thankful for the recommendation to use her. Little advice: HIRE THEM!

The Groom, Spencer

Are you crying? I’m crying.


Photo: Us! Basecamp Visual


Crafting really beautiful films + photos for the wild at heart, Basecamp Visual is a Breckenridge, Colorado based videography and photography team run by us, a husband and wife duo, Dave & Shanna. Are you on the hunt for a creative storytelling team for your upcoming Colorado (or other amazing places) intimate wedding or elopement? Interested in a session just because? Let’s talk about it! Contact us today to learn more.

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Moody Fall Wedding at Vista View Events


Rachel + Zach’s moody fall wedding day at the gorgeous Vista View Events was everything good.


Moody fall wedding at Vista View Events.

Looking for moody fall wedding inspiration?

Look no further. Rachel & Zach’s day is all you need. It was all a total vibe. And a good one.

The flowers, the total babe black denim jacket, the design, the lace gown, the copper + black + acrylic details. The sunshine. The mountains. All the things we love, all in one spot.

Rachel is a wedding planner, so you know her style is on point.

Vista View Events has somehow perfectly married the combination of being a gorgeous blank slate AND a venue that is beautiful enough to stand perfectly on it’s own. You don’t need much (if anything!) to make it your own for your wedding day. The gorgeously blue lake views & clean, white barn are impeccable on their own. At the same time, you can literally go ANYWHERE design-wise. It’s truly one of our favorite venues. To read more about how we feel about Vista View Events, check it out here.

To satisfy your moody fall wedding dreams, give their gallery a look!

And also – this perfect day was featured on ROCKY MOUNTAIN BRIDE! Check out the feature here.


Photo: Us! Basecamp Visual
Planning: The bride!
Dress: a+bé bridal shop
Venue: Vista View Events at Open Heart Ranch
Florals: Fox and Flower
HMU: Muse Modern Salon
Catering: Red Maple Catering


Crafting really beautiful films + photos for the wild at heart, Basecamp Visual is a Breckenridge, Colorado based videography and photography team run by us, a husband and wife duo, Dave & Shanna. Are you on the hunt for a creative storytelling team for your upcoming Colorado (or other amazing places) intimate wedding or elopement? Interested in a session just because? Let’s talk about it! Contact us today to learn more.

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