the faq

Licensed cultivators and brands are our bread and butter, but this company was built on the idea that great flower deserves great photography, whoever grew it. If you are an individual grower in the legal space with a prized homegrown you want shot like it is on a magazine cover, we would love to. And if it is good enough for our portfolio, we will not charge you for it.

Every project is custom quoted. Tell us what you need through the book a shoot page, we scope it together, and you get a quote before anything is scheduled. No packages, no surprises.

On site at your facility, or offsite in our studio. We are based in Tempe, AZ and available throughout the West.

We send a prep guide and a production checklist so your team knows exactly what to have ready. A few minutes of prep on your side is the difference between good shots and the ones that move product.

The two best windows are right after cut and about a week after. Fresh-cut material gives us living structure and color; the one-week mark gives us the cured look buyers recognize. If you can only pick one, tell us what the images are for and we will pick with you.

Held, not touched. Trichomes are the whole point of the shot and they do not survive fingers. Handle by the stem, keep contact to a minimum, and never touch the flower surface itself.

Depends on the shot. E-commerce nugs for menu and product work, large fresh flower for 1:1 close-ups, and a 12–18″ hero cola if you want the showpiece image. A mix of all three covers most catalogs.

Untouched product straight from the room or the cure, plus retail-ready packaging if packaging is in scope. We shoot what your customer actually gets.

Gloves, a hand trimmer, a low-airflow area, power, any PPE your facility requires, and enough room for lighting rigs. The production checklist we send before the shoot covers all of it.

Yes. We hold an Arizona DHS Facility Agent card, which a licensee can associate with their license through the ADHS portal in minutes. We follow your facility access and product-handling procedures.

Yes. We carry full general and professional liability coverage through our Professional Photographers of America (PPA) membership, and we can add your facility as additional insured. Certificates of insurance are available on request for your compliance team.

Yes, for aerial and facility work. We fly legally and coordinate with your compliance team on any airspace restrictions.

It can. We have a documented custody and transport process for offsite work, including a chain-of-custody form your team signs off on. Ask about it when you book and we will walk you through it.

Edited images within 3 to 5 business days, rush available on request. Files are delivered as high-res TIFF or JPEG, color corrected and ready to use. RAW files available upon request.

A browser-based interactive viewer that lets anyone zoom from the full bud all the way into individual trichomes — like a map, but for your flower. Each image gets a shareable link (or QR code) you can put on menus, packaging, or social. See it live in the collection.

Our photos will make your flower look better than it looks in the jar. That is the job: serious glass, perfect light, obsessive detail, a color-managed workflow end to end, and the polish of a careful edit. What we will not do is change what the flower is: no fantasy purples, no cranked saturation, no fiction. Your flower at its best is still your flower, and the customer who buys off our photo recognizes what arrives.

Pests, powdery mildew, sick plants: we will not light around them, clone them out, or help present unhealthy product as healthy. If we see something on set, you hear it from us quietly and first.

Our deep-zoom work exists because we have nothing to hide at trichome level, and neither should you. Flower that survives 1:1 scrutiny is the only flower worth shooting this way.

Every pixel of flower in our work came through a lens pointed at your product. We do not generate flower, trichomes, or backgrounds with AI, period. The honest footnote: modern editing tools ship with AI-assisted modules for routine retouching, removing a dust spot, erasing the armature holding a cola, denoising, sharpening. We use those the way every working photographer does. What they touch is cleanup. What they never touch is the flower itself.

We hold the copyright; you hold a license that covers everything you actually need. Every engagement includes a perpetual, worldwide commercial license: website, social, menus, e-commerce listings, in-store displays, email, and marketing. No renewals, no expiring usage windows, no surprise invoices for using your own product photos.

Two things: national packaging runs and paid advertising campaigns. Those are quoted per project, and the quote is reasonable.

The license covers your brand. Images stay yours to use, not to pass along. Reselling images or supplying them to other companies needs a conversation first.

Our best work may appear in the Terp & Thorn gallery and deep-zoom showcase. Launching a strain in secret? Tell us the embargo date and we hold the images until you go public.

Finished images are the deliverable. Raw files and stack frames stay in our archive for at least two years, so reorders and re-crops are an email, not a reshoot. Exclusivity on a strain imagery is available, priced case by case.