About
That sentence is the whole business. Most photographers are trying to make a home look good. I'm trying to help you sell it — and help you win the next one.
Back in 2017 I knew nothing about photography. My dad had a drone and wouldn't let me fly it, so I bought my own. Then I wanted a better one, put it on a credit card, and started offering aerial photos to agents until I'd paid it off.
I'd been doing loans in Pueblo since 1998, so I already knew hundreds of agents. My first client was my buddy Toby Villanueva at Rocky Mountain Realty. After the drone work he asked whether I'd shoot the inside too. I had no interior gear and one high-school photography class behind me.
So I bought basic equipment and taught myself — YouTube, books, and coaching from two photographers I still admire, Nathan Coole and Rich Baum. I started at $75 a shoot, any number of photos, doing all my own editing, just to get people in the door.
Most photographers are slow because they're photographers, not people who came out of the real estate business. Twenty-plus years in residential lending taught me what accurate, complete and timely actually mean, and what it costs when they slip.
It's also why my delivery promise is a specific time and not a vague window. Thursday is the best day to list. If you shoot Wednesday, you need the photos Thursday morning — not sometime in the next two or three days. So everything lands by 9 a.m. the next business day. Shoot Saturday, deliver Monday.
The engine behind that is an editor in Vietnam working overnight while I sleep.
I'm a licensed FAA drone pilot carrying $1,000,000 in general liability and another $1,000,000 in drone liability coverage.
That matters more than it sounds. When an agent flies a drone themselves, or hires someone unlicensed, they expose the seller. FAA penalties can reach the seller, the agent and the pilot. Most business, umbrella and homeowners policies specifically exclude commercial drone operations — so an accident can put a home and personal assets in play. Even free footage counts if it's used to market a property.
I don't think it's fair to put a seller in that position to save a few dollars.
There are a lot of them in Pueblo and Cañon City. When I shoot one, I take extra frames just to record it as it stands today — not because the listing needs them, but because somebody should.
What I want at the end of a shoot is simple. The seller should feel the photos represent their home accurately and in its best light, and be proud of them. And you should feel like I'm on your team — from ordering through delivery.
The short version
Across three counties and every price point — a one-bedroom on Pueblo's east side to an estate near the Broadmoor.
Photos and video both. A specific time, not a range, so you can plan the listing around it.
Unhappy with even one photo and I come back out and reshoot it. No argument, no fee.