Travel, Destination, & Conservation Content Creation
Blue Ridge & Appalachian Mountains
We create cinematic photography, video, drone content, and story-driven campaigns for destinations, tourism organizations, conservation groups, parks, and outdoor organizations throughout the Blue Ridge, Appalachian Mountains, and beyond.
From mountain communities and national parks to wildlife, cultural history, and conservation initiatives, we turn the stories that make a place significant into content that inspires people to explore it, understand it, and care about what happens to it.
Based in Southwest Virginia, we regularly work across Virginia, West Virginia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, throughout Appalachia, and beyond.
Cinematic destination content built around wildlife, history, conservation, and the experiences that make a place worth discovering.
Stories That Make People Care
Mount Mitchell + Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Mount Mitchell gave us the opportunity to tell a much larger story than simply visiting the highest mountain in the eastern United States.
Working alongside the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, we developed a multi-part series exploring the Black Mountains, their rare high-elevation ecosystems, the history of Mount Mitchell, and ongoing efforts to restore the landscape.
BLACK MOUNTAINS · NORTH CAROLINA
Virginia Bison Company, Virginia
Set on a family-owned bison farm near Shenandoah National Park, this design-forward Virginia cabin offered a stay unlike anything we had documented before. We centered the collection around its warm interiors, pastoral setting, and the unforgettable possibility of waking up to bison grazing nearby.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY · VIRGINIA
Contemporary American Theater Festival
For this campaign, our goal was to show travelers that Jefferson County offers far more than a single historic stop.
We centered part of the story around the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, using the festival as a gateway into the county’s broader mix of arts, history, dining, small towns, and outdoor experiences.
JEFFERSON COUNTY · WEST VIRGINIA
What Our Clients Say
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“The Mainstream Multi-Media team truly has a knack for understanding the brand and what it's trying to communicate. Brittany and her team have been incredible to work with! They captured and edited a variety of photos for our team, and they delivered everything we requested and more. “
— Zook Cabins (Financial Times Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies)
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“They have an eye for detail and setting the atmosphere to create the story they envision. Brittany is a wonderful photographer, a content creator, and very professional.”
— Star Farm, West Virginia
👋🏼 Hey, We're Brittany & Ryan!
We’re a visual marketing team based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, with more than five years of experience in digital marketing, commercial photography, video, and story-driven content.
Much of our time is spent exploring mountain towns, trails, rivers, waterfalls, wildlife, and the landscapes that make Appalachia so unique. That connection to the region naturally makes us curious about the stories behind these places, from their history and ecology to the people working to protect them.
It is that curiosity that shapes the way we approach every project and helps us create content that goes beyond showing what a place looks like to sharing why it matters.
📍Based in Virginia and serving hospitality properties throughout the Appalachian Mountains.
Commercial Experience Behind the Work
Before expanding into destination storytelling, we spent years creating commercial photography and video for established outdoor and consumer brands.
That experience shapes how we work today, from styling intentional scenes and directing natural moments to highlighting the details that make a story feel polished, aspirational, and authentic.
Serving the Blue Ridge & Appalachian Mountains
Based in Southwest Virginia, we create hospitality content for cabins, inns, resorts, vacation rentals, and unique stays throughout the Appalachian region.
Our primary service areas include Virginia, West Virginia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, North Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
We regularly work throughout destinations including the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Highlands, Great Smoky Mountains, New River Gorge, Poconos, Catskills, Adirondacks, Green Mountains, and White Mountains.
What We Can Create
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Photography
Landscapes, wildlife, recreation, communities, attractions, people, details, and the experiences that define a place.
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Cinematic Video
Destination films, campaign videos, outdoor storytelling, interviews, and short-form social content.
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Drone Content
Aerial perspectives that establish geography, scale, landscape, and sense of place when conditions and regulations allow.
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Educational Storytelling
Short-form stories built around conservation, ecology, wildlife, history, culture, and the lesser-known details that make destinations fascinating.
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Creator Campaigns
Strategic collaborative content published to our established regional outdoor and travel audience.
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Content Libraries
Large collections of photography and B-roll that your organization can continue using across social media, websites, email, public relations, and future campaigns.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. We can create individual destination assets or larger multi-part campaigns combining photography, video, drone content, educational storytelling, and creator distribution.
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Yes. Conservation storytelling is one of the areas we are actively expanding. We can help document restoration projects, protected landscapes, wildlife, ecosystems, organizational initiatives, and the people behind the work.
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Yes. We research and develop story-driven short-form videos designed to make subjects such as history, ecology, conservation, and wildlife accessible and engaging to general audiences.
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Yes. Campaigns can include professional photography, cinematic video, vertical social content, drone imagery, B-roll, website assets, and other deliverables.
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Yes. Every agreement clearly defines usage rights based on the needs of the campaign. Organic social, website, advertising, third-party use, raw footage, and extended licensing can be structured into the project.
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Yes. We are based in Southwest Virginia and regularly work throughout the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains, with additional travel available throughout the East Coast.
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Yes. For aligned projects, creator distribution can be added separately from commercial production.
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Absolutely. We can collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure the story is accurate while translating complex information into accessible content for a broader audience.
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Every campaign is different. Pricing depends on travel, production requirements, number of locations, deliverables, licensing, campaign length, and whether creator distribution is included.
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Pricing is based on the property, location, production schedule, travel requirements, editing scope, and licensing. Every project is quoted as a complete hospitality production rather than an à la carte list of individual services.
