My path into all of this didn't start with a business plan, it started with skateboarding and a camera.

While studying Communication at Oakland University, I fell in love with filming and editing skate content. What began as just documenting moments quickly turned into an obsession with storytelling, pacing, and visual style.

I started posting consistently across platforms like TikTok and YouTube, eventually building an audience of over 10,000 followers.

That early traction opened the first real door:

An internship focused on video editing, social media, and ad creation

Since then, I've worked across a wide range of video projects:

• Corporate and university campaigns
• Live events and podcasts
• Emotional documentary-style storytelling
• Commercial ads and branded content
• Social media strategy and paid advertising

Notable Work Includes:

• Producing a corporate campaign for Oakland University’s Communication Master’s Program
  
• Capturing live podcast events at Emagine Theatres
  
• Filming emotional stories for Mojo in the Morning’s Breaking & Entering Christmas program
  
• Traveling to Las Vegas to create a full promotional video for The Carpet Guys trade school
  
• Editing immersive horror content for attractions like Eloise Asylum and Erebus

I’ve worked with a wide range of brands, organizations, and local businesses, including:

Oakland University, iHeartRadio, Mojo in the Morning, Michigan Lottery, The Carpet Guys, Gordon Chevrolet, JARS Cannabis, P.F. Chang’s, Salinas Insurance Group, Farm Bureau Insurance, Muse MedSpa, Wallside Windows, Erebus Haunted Attraction, Eloise Asylum, and many more.

This range of experience has given me a strong understanding of both creative execution and marketing performance how content not only looks good, but actually drives results.

While video was the starting point, photography became more of a secret creative outlet for me apart from my world of corporate advertisements I was creating with video.

Hence Gage Prints was born

Gage Prints, named after my middle name, has grown into more than just a gallery to buy photos, it's the foundation of everything I'm building.

I turn my photos into posters, framed prints, postcards, tapestries, and even Jigsaw Puzzles

The collection spans:

• Detroit architecture and city scenes
  
• Landscapes from Iceland, Ireland, and beyond
  
• Nature, wildlife, and abstract compositions
  

Each image represents a real place I’ve explored and documented over time. What started as individual photos has evolved into a structured body of work organized into collections, optimized for search, and designed to live both as digital content and physical products.

Gage Prints sits at the intersection of:

• Art
  
• Content
  
• E-commerce
  

It’s not just about selling prints it’s about building a catalog of original work that can be experienced in multiple ways.

To push that idea further, I created Gage Ambient, and this is where things start to get different.

Instead of letting photos exist as a single static moment, I turn them into long-form ambient video experiences using subtle motion, lighting, and environmental effects.

• Rain moving through city streets
  
• Fog drifting across architecture
  
• Natural environments layered with sound and depth
  

This creates a completely new format for the same piece of content.

From a creative standpoint, it’s a unique angle that not many photographers are leveraging taking a single image and expanding it into something immersive and repeatable.

From a business standpoint, it opens up passive income opportunities through long-form content:

• YouTube ambient videos
  
• Embedded blog content for SEO
  
• Cross-platform social media clips
  

Each video becomes:

• A standalone piece of content
  
• A marketing tool for the original print
  
• A long-term asset that can generate traffic over time
  

It ties everything together, my photography, my video background, my travel experiences, and the environments I’ve documented, all feeding into one system.

Everything I create connects back to the same foundation:

• Video → storytelling and brand building
• Photography → capturing moments as art
• Ambient content → turning visuals into experiences

It's not separate projects—it's one system.

And with enough practice, repitition, and work ethic all these will continue to grow.