January’s cover for The Executive Controller! Photographed in a hangar in Minneapolis, MN. Lots of help from Chuck Spanbauer. Of course, thanks to Dallas Jet International. Good luck on a quick sale!

Taylor Greenwood has been busy.

So busy, that he’s discovered a need to organize his time and travel schedule into a regular tour.

Taylor and his crew photograph aircraft regularly at the Oakland County International Airport, Waterford, (near Detroit) and Dallas Love Field; as well his home airport of Appleton Wisconsin (conveniently, the home of Gulfstream) and nearby Wittman Regional Airport, the home of EAA’s Airventure show each year.

This Friday, my fiancé and I will donating our time to photograph the annual “Shall We Dance”  fundraiser for the Sexual Assault Crisis Center here in Appleton. It is our goal to help raise awareness of an issue that seems to be sometimes overlooked. We love the opportunity to photograph anything and everything, especially something related to such a great cause.

The event itself is not aviation related, but we thought it would be good to share with everyone out there that if you ever need your aviation event photographed, we are highly qualified …

Good morning everyone! Just the other day I had the pleasure of meeting with a friend and pilot from Orchard Beach Aviation in Manistee, MI. He came over to discuss some photo options for a new website and marketing campaign they are working on.  While chatting over some delicious pizza from Franks Pizza Palace, Rob and I decided it would be easiest if we could just take care of the photos here. (Maybe hey was conveyed to visit again because he liked the pizza so much. For Orchard Beach Aviation, we’ll be doing exterior, and interior shots as well as …

Episode 8 – Surviving a Startup, and Balancing Art with Business -An Interview with Taylor Greenwood

Striking images that sell airplanes have propelled Taylor Greenwood from startup to success in about four years.

Topics we cover in this conversation:

Breaking into the aviation industry rather than being a “native.”
The importance of a methodical, consistent process and a checklist, even for artistic endeavors.
Managing the feast & famine of a startup business
- zero to 49 airplanes in 2 weeks
Specializing in an ideal client type – not just anyone
with a pulse and a checkbook.
Getting those …

When I attended Hallmark Institute of Photography in 2007-08 there was what seemed to be a universal goal between all of the students. To become excellent photographers and travel to places they’ve never been before and photograph what they see along the way. I have been very fortunate at beginning to meet that goal, only, instead of mostly documenting what I see, I ended up photographing private jets and other luxury aircraft.

Having started out in Westfield, Massachusetts many of my initial clientele were New England based companies, and individuals. We would …