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Lifestyle, Product, and Portrait Photography for Cascade Designs, Inc. 

Over the course of 2015 and 2016, I had the unique opportunity to work as a photographer at Cascade Designs, Inc. Headquartered in Seattle since 1972, Cascade Designs is the parent company of such venerable outdoor brands as Mountain Safety Research (MSR), Therm-a-Rest, Platypus, PackTowl, SealLine, and E-Case. 

I was thrilled to join the team of incredibly talented people at Cascade Designs. I grew up as a kid in the Pacific Northwest around MSR WhisperLite stoves and Therm-a-Rest mattresses. Cascade Designs still manufactures the vast majority of its gear in its factories in the SoDo industrial neighborhood of Seattle. If you ask me, the gear designed and manufactured by these brands is the standard by which all other outdoor gear is judged.  Highlights of my time at Cascade Designs included lifestyle shoots for Therm-a-Rest and PackTowl, portraits of all MSR employees for the #UnrulyDreamers campaign, behind-the-scenes factory and repair shop photo and video, product photography and animated how-to GIFs, instructional video for MSR Global Health, and one last portrait on my final day of Cascade Designs’ new president (and son of co-founder John Burroughs), David Burroughs. 

My work was featured on Cascade Designs’ brands’ websites, social media, and workbook, not to mention Cascade Designs’ dealer partners who utilize the brands’ lifestyle and product imagery (which I also managed as Digital Asset Manager). While I have since moved on to a new full-time opportunity as a photographer in REI’s media studio (an offer I couldn’t refuse), I will remain forever grateful to the opportunities afforded to me by the wonderful folks at Cascade Designs. They are a fun-loving group of people, and they make the best damn gear around.

PackTowl Nano Light Ultrafast-Drying Towel

PackTowl Ultralite Towel Plum