Whitetail · Waterfowl · Upland · Fly Water · Family Land
Documenting Midwest hunts, waters, and the ground they happen on.
You spent the money, took the week, and drove eight hours. Right now there is no record of it beyond a phone photo in a truck bed. I fix that.
- Who this is for
- Hunters and anglers who want the trip documented, landowners who want the place documented, and outfitters who need photographs that fill a booking calendar.
- Where I work
- Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and the Texas coast — and anywhere else a hosted trip goes. Work more than 200 miles from Wichita includes a travel fee, quoted up front.
- What I am not
- A visiting creative who needs a babysitter. I hunt and fish here. I can sit a blind, stay quiet, and shoot at 5:40 in the rain without asking where to stand.
Three ways to work together
Your hunt or float, documented
I come along. You fish or hunt. You get the whole trip back — the dark walk in, the first cast, the wait, the dog, the people, the fish handled right and released.
- From $1,650 a day
- 40–60 finished images
- Prints available at delivery
Outfitter content
Your website photos are costing you bookings. Monthly partnerships put fresh, seasonal imagery in front of hunters who are still deciding.
- From $800 a month
- Two shoot days every season
- Social-ready verticals each quarter
Prints for the wall
Kansas ground, printed properly. Open editions and signed limited runs of 25, in sizes that work over a mantel or a desk.
- $145 to $1,650
- Paper, metal, framed
- Signed limited editions
Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas
Gold Medal water in Colorado, the Ozark trout parks and Taneycomo in Missouri, the White River below Bull Shoals in Arkansas, the Lower Mountain Fork and Texoma in Oklahoma, redfish on the Texas flats, and whitetail, waterfowl and upland at home. All of it a drive from Wichita. Anything more than 200 miles out includes a travel fee, quoted before you book.
Selected frames
Portfolio
The work
Fly water, tallgrass, ranch country and the high country beyond it. Whitetail, waterfowl, upland and aerial work fill in here as the seasons run.
BUILD NOTE — frame slots name the target photograph and the lens. Fill them as shoots happen; the species blocks are already written for search.
From the field
Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana
Fly water & family fishing
Tallgrass prairie
Farm & ranch
Wildlife & high country
Kansas whitetail hunt photographer
Whitetail
Kansas draws roughly twenty thousand nonresident deer hunters a year. Most of them go home with a mount and nothing else. The frames worth having are not the grip-and-grin — they are the ladder stand against a gray dawn, the hand in a fresh scrape, and the blood trail worked by flashlight at nine at night.
Kansas waterfowl photographer
Waterfowl
The earliest start, the worst light, and the most happening per second. The dog is the emotional center of every duck gallery, so the dog gets shot as hard as the hunters do. Bad weather is an asset here — a blue-sky duck photograph is a boring duck photograph.
Kansas upland and bird dog photographer
Pheasant & quail
Pheasant is landscape — shoot it wider than feels right, sky taking two-thirds of the frame. Quail is portrait — the point is the single best image in upland hunting, and it holds still for you. Both are really about the dogs.
Fly fishing photographer — hosted trips, lodges and guides
Fly water
Fly fishing photographs badly by default. Most of it is a man standing in a river holding a fish at arm's length toward the lens. The frames that actually carry a trip are the line in the air, the fish still in the water, and the twenty minutes of flat light before anyone has caught anything.
A polarizer lives on the lens for this work — it is the difference between seeing into the water and photographing a sheet of glare. Fish stay wet, stay low, and go back fast. No trophy poses out of the water.
Native trout and hosted destination trips
Native water
Chasing native species in the water they came from — cutthroat, brookies, redband, Gila, Apache, bull trout — is a different assignment from a guided day on a tailwater. The fish is the smallest part of the frame and the place is the story.
If you host trips, this is the work that sells next season's seats. Anglers book on the strength of what the last trip looked like, and a phone photo of a fish in a net does not do it.
Kansas warmwater fly fishing
Home water
Kansas is not a trout state and there is no point pretending otherwise. What it has is wipers blowing up on shad, white bass running the rivers in spring, carp on the flats in summer, and smallmouth in Flint Hills creeks — all of it on a fly, all of it inside an hour of home, and almost none of it photographed well by anybody.
Aerial and drone photography
From the air
A lodge owner can describe his property for ten minutes and still not get it across. One frame from three hundred feet does it instantly — the timber blocks, the food plots, the water, the way the whole place fits together. It is the most useful single photograph an outfitter can own, and almost none of them have one.
On the water it does something different. A river read from directly above is a map: braids, gravel bars, seams, holding water. Anglers study those frames, and hosts use them to sell a trip before anyone has seen a fish.
Flown on a DJI Mavic 4 Pro, with its Hasselblad main camera and two telephoto cameras, so the same flight covers the whole property and the details inside it.
BUILD NOTE — commercial drone work requires an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. Do not publish this section until that certificate is in hand. No flights over people, none in controlled airspace without authorization, and none over National Parks or designated Wilderness.
Kansas farm and ranch photographer
Family land
Dad is eighty-two and there has never been a real photograph of the place. The equipment, the barn, the treeline he planted, three generations on the tailgate. This is the work people hang on a wall and hand down.
Hunt, Float & Trip Coverage
What it costs
Prices are on this page on purpose. You should not have to send an inquiry to find out whether you can afford it.
Single Day
- Up to 10 hours afield
- 40–60 finished images
- 5-image sneak peek in 48 hours
- Full gallery in 14 days
Three-Day Trip
- 100–150 finished images
- One 8×12 print included
- Covers the whole party, any size
- Full gallery in 14 days
Five-Day Expedition
- 200+ finished images
- Aerial set of the ground or the water
- Two prints included
- Full gallery in 21 days
On the water
The day rates above apply to water as well as timber. These two are built specifically for fly fishing.
Float or Wade Day
- Your water, your guide, your boat
- 40–60 finished images
- Polarized water work, fish kept wet
- Shore lunch and camp included in the coverage
Hosted Trip Coverage
- Built for hosts running 6–10 anglers
- Every angler goes home with their own frames
- A marketing set you own, for selling next season
- Travel fee beyond 200 miles, quoted as one number
If you sell seats on a trip, the photographs are how you sell the next one. This is the only line on this page priced to be bought every season rather than once.
The Signature Package
The full treatment. 200+ finished images, full aerial coverage of the ground and the water, a framed 16×24, and a hardcover book of the trip. For the hunt you will still be talking about in twenty years.
Farm & Ranch Heritage Session
The land, the equipment, the people who work it. 50 finished images and one 16×24 print. Built for families who want the place recorded while everyone is still here to be in the photographs.
From the air
Aerial photography flown on a DJI Mavic 4 Pro. The only way to show how a property fits together — the timber, the water, the food plots, the draws the birds use.
Aerial Add-On
- 15–20 finished aerial frames
- Flown the same day as your coverage
- Camp, the water, and the ground you hunted
- Delivered in the same gallery
Property Aerial Set
- 30–40 finished aerial frames
- Straight-down overviews plus low passes
- Timber, water, food plots and boundaries
- Flown at golden hour, weather permitting
Ranch & Large Acreage
- 60+ finished aerial frames
- Sunrise and sunset flights
- Headquarters, pastures, water and fence lines
- A licensed set for listings and marketing
Weather and wind decide flight days; a grounded day reschedules at no charge. Drones are not flown in designated wilderness, national parks, or other restricted airspace. Included free with the Annual Content Partnership.
How it works
| What you are asking | The answer |
|---|---|
| Travel and expenses? | Shoots more than 200 miles from Wichita include a travel fee. It is quoted as one number before you book, not an expense list after. |
| How many people does it cover? | The whole party, whatever the size. Four hunters cost the same as one. |
| What if we do not get anything? | You still get a gallery. The dark walk in, the place, the wait, the guide, the dog, camp at dusk — none of that depends on an animal. |
| Who owns the photographs? | I hold the copyright. You get a broad personal-use license: print them, frame them, post them, hand them out at the funeral. Commercial use is a separate conversation. |
| Will you get in the way? | No. The hunt or the fishing comes first, always. I move when you move and stop when you stop, and I never ask anyone to redo a moment during live hunting. |
| How do you handle fish? | Wet hands, low over the water, in the net until the last second, and back fast. I will not ask you to hold a fish up for a better angle. If a fish needs to go, it goes — I would rather miss the frame. |
| Deposit? | Half to hold the dates, half on delivery. |
For Outfitters, Lodges & Guides
Your photographs are doing your selling. Are they up to it?
A hunter comparing three Kansas outfits at eleven at night is not reading your copy. He is looking at your pictures and deciding which hunt looks like the one he has been imagining.
Two ways in
Season Library
- Two days across one season
- 150 finished images
- Unlimited marketing usage, two-year term
- Verticals cut for stories and reels
The way to start if you have never hired a photographer and want to see the work before committing to a year.
Annual Content Partnership
- Eight shoot days a year — two every season
- Monthly image drops, so the site never goes stale
- 30 social-ready verticals per quarter
- Aerial frames of the property each season
- Full aerial property set included, refreshed each year
Includes a full aerial property set at no extra charge — the layout, the water, the timber blocks and the food plots from 300 feet — refreshed every year you are a partner.
The part that pays for itself
Offer documentation to your booking hunters as an add-on. I bill the hunter directly at my normal rates, you take fifteen percent, and you have a new line of revenue that costs you nothing to carry. An outfit running forty guided hunts a season that converts one in ten is real money — and every one of those hunters goes home with photographs that have your name attached to them.
Case study
Placeholder for your first outfitter testimonial. Ask for it at the delivery meeting, and ask them to name what the images are worth to them rather than how good they look.
Name · Operation · County, Kansas
BUILD NOTE — one page per outfitter client. Property, acreage, what the season looked like, which images went where, and the result in their words. This page type converts better than anything else on a photography site for B2B.
Coverage
Six states, one truck.
Based in Wichita. Everything below is a drive, not a flight, which is why I can shoot a Tuesday morning hatch or an opening-day hunt without it becoming a production. Every state here is hunt coverage as well as fishing. Work more than 200 miles from Wichita includes a travel fee, quoted up front.
Kansas — home water
Kansas
The whitetail, waterfowl and upland work all happens here, and so does the warmwater fly fishing nobody photographs. Wipers and white bass on Glen Elder, Kanopolis, Tuttle Creek, Marion and Pomona; spawning runs that push miles up the rivers in spring; smallmouth in Flint Hills creeks; carp on summer flats.
Trout in Kansas are a stocked winter program rather than a wild fishery — the KDWP season runs December 1 through March 31 and needs a $20 trout permit. Worth shooting for what it is: cold, close to home, and good light.
Hunting. Big-bodied whitetail through the November rut, pheasant and quail from the opener onward, ducks and geese on the reservoirs and river bottoms, and spring turkey. This is home ground, so I can be in the stand or the blind with you on short notice.
Colorado fly fishing and hunting photographer
Colorado
About eight hours out, and the reason to make the drive is roughly 362 miles of Gold Medal water spread across thirteen rivers and three lakes. Colorado Parks & Wildlife only hands out that designation to water holding 60 pounds of fish per acre and at least twelve trout over fourteen inches per acre.
The Arkansas alone carries 102 miles of it, the longest continuous Gold Medal stretch in the state. The Gunnison through the Black Canyon is both Gold Medal and Wild Trout water, flies and lures only, with every rainbow released. The Taylor below the reservoir and the South Platte between Spinney Mountain and Eleven Mile are Gold Medal as well — the latter catch-and-release only.
The work I most want to make here is native. Greenback cutthroat is the state fish, federally threatened, and was reintroduced to the wild only in 2014. Rio Grande cutthroat hold about twelve percent of their historic range. Colorado River cutthroat are down to isolated headwaters. Those fish, in the water they came from, photographed properly and put straight back — that is a body of work worth years.
Hunting. Elk and mule deer country. Colorado has one of the largest elk herds in North America, and a September bugle or a late-season hunt in the high country is as good a subject as any trout stream. Pronghorn on the eastern plains and waterfowl along the South Platte round it out.
Missouri Ozarks fly fishing and hunting photographer
Missouri
Around five hours and arguably the most photogenic trout water within a day of Kansas. Four trout parks: Bennett Spring on the Niangua, Montauk at the headwaters of the Current, Roaring River, and Maramec Spring on the Meramec. Catch-and-keep runs March 1 through October 31; the winter catch-and-release season runs from the second Friday in November to the second Monday in February and is flies only, which is when the water is quiet and the fog is worth driving for.
Beyond the parks, the Missouri Department of Conservation's Blue Ribbon waters are the serious fly water — Crane Creek, the North Fork of the White, the Eleven Point, the Current, Mill Creek, Little Piney — all eighteen-inch minimum, one fish, artificials only. Lake Taneycomo below Table Rock Dam is the big-brown tailwater, with a twenty-inch minimum on browns and a protected slot on rainbows in the trophy zone.
And the Ozark smallmouth streams are their own subject: Jacks Fork, Big Piney, the Gasconade, the Meramec, the Elk. Clear water, gravel bars, limestone bluffs, and a fish that fights above its weight.
Hunting. Missouri is one of the best wild turkey states in the country, and the Ozark hollows in spring are made for photographs — gobblers on the ridges, fog in the bottoms. Whitetail in the fall, and ducks in the Bootheel and along the big rivers in winter.
White River, Arkansas fly fishing and hunting photographer
Arkansas
The White River below Bull Shoals Dam is the reason to go. The dam went in in 1952, the cold water it releases made trout possible, and rainbows and browns have been stocked there since 1955. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission manages the trout water all the way down to the Highway 58 bridge at Guion — long, cold, and famous for big browns.
The Norfork tailwater joins it at Norfork, and it produced a world-record brown of 38 pounds, 9 ounces in 1988. Further south, the Little Red below Greers Ferry Dam gave up Rip Collins’ 40-pound, 4-ounce brown in 1992. Few places anywhere put three trout tailwaters with that history this close together.
Tailwater fishing runs on the generation schedule, so the work follows the water: drift boats on high flows, wading the shoals when the turbines go quiet, and fog on the river most cold mornings. Check current AGFC trout regulations before you go — they change.
Hunting. Stuttgart calls itself the Rice and Duck Capital of the World, and mallards dropping into flooded green timber is the most photogenic duck hunt there is. Whitetail and turkey in the Ozarks round out the year.
Oklahoma fly fishing and hunting photographer
Oklahoma
Two year-round trout fisheries, both worth the drive. The Lower Mountain Fork at Beavers Bend is twelve miles below the Broken Bow spillway, barbless hooks only, with rainbows and browns and genuine trophy regulations on the upper areas — didymo is present, so gear gets cleaned and dried. The Lower Illinois runs 7.75 miles from Tenkiller Ferry Dam to the Highway 64 bridge near Gore, and the Simp and Helen Watts unit there is artificial flies and lures, barbless only.
The Blue River near Tishomingo is stocked November through March, with a catch-and-release stretch on barbless artificials for the first part of the season.
Then there is Texoma. Eighty-eight thousand acres, one of the very few inland striper fisheries in the country where the fish reproduce naturally — verified every year since 1973 — and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's own management plan calls it the Striper Capital of the World. Guided trips account for roughly three quarters of the striper harvest, which means a lot of guides who need photographs.
Hunting. Whitetail across the state, spring turkey, bobwhite quail in the southwest, and heavy waterfowl on the central flyway.
Texas redfish, flats and hunting photographer
Texas
The one saltwater assignment on this list, and the most visual fishing there is. Redfish on the Texas flats are sight-fished: a push of water, a tail breaking the surface in skinny water, one cast to a fish you have been watching for a minute. From the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre and Baffin Bay to Port O’Connor, Rockport and Port Mansfield, the coast is shallow grass flats, clear water and a lot of sky.
Most of the work happens off a poling skiff or wading the flats: the guide on the platform, the angler on the bow, the fish in the water before anyone touches it. A polarizer earns its keep here more than anywhere, and salt means gear gets rinsed every evening. Reds go back in the water fast. Check current Texas Parks and Wildlife limits before the trip.
Flats guides live on photographs of tailing fish and happy clients, and most of them have never had a working photographer in the boat.
Hunting. South Texas brush country is some of the most famous whitetail ground in the country. Add the September dove opener, quail in the rolling plains, and ducks and geese on the coast — which means a winter trip can pair a morning duck hunt with an afternoon on the redfish flats.
Outside the region
I travel for hosted trips and destination work anywhere — Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Alaska. Anything more than 200 miles from Wichita includes a travel fee, quoted as one number rather than an expense list, so you know the whole cost before we start.
Prints
Kansas ground and Montana water, printed properly
Open editions stay available. Limited editions are runs of 25, signed and numbered, and when they are gone they are gone.
| Size & material | Open edition | Limited edition of 25 |
|---|---|---|
| 11×14 fine art paper | $145 | — |
| 16×24 fine art paper | $285 | $395 |
| 16×24 framed, timber finish | $525 | $650 |
| 24×36 fine art paper | $495 | $675 |
| 24×36 metal | $895 | $1,250 |
| 40×60 fine art paper | $1,150 | $1,650 |
Kansas sales tax applies to prints. Prices above are before tax and shipping.
Custom sizes and products
The table above covers the common sizes. It is not the limit. Any photograph on this site can be printed at any size, on any material, for any wall — and made into more than a print.
Any size
From a 5×7 on a desk to a panorama over a fireplace or a mural for a lodge wall. Paper, metal, canvas or wood, framed or unframed, cropped to fit the space.
Postcards & cards
Sets of postcards or folded note cards for gifts, guest welcome packets, or a lodge gift shop. Mix images or run a single photograph.
Calendars
Twelve months of Kansas ground and western water. Made for businesses and outfitters to hand out, or built around your own property and your own year.
Custom work is quoted per order. Tell me the image, the size or product, and the quantity, and you will get one number back with no surprises. jerod@jerodcox.com
Commission a print of your own place
If you want your ground on the wall rather than mine, that is the Farm & Ranch Heritage Session — a half day on the property plus golden hour, fifty finished images, and one 16×24 print included.
About
I hunt & fish here. That is the whole difference.
Most outdoor photography is shot by people who need a fixer. They ask where to stand, they move at the wrong moment, and they do not know why the group went quiet. Outfitters have all hired one at least once, and they remember it.
I am from Kansas, I hunt and fish, and I have spent enough mornings in a blind — and enough evenings standing in a river waiting on a hatch — to know when to put the camera down. That is not a marketing line — it is the actual product. It is why I can shoot a hunt without costing you the hunt.
The rest of my week is spent running a private lending company, which turns out to be useful training for this: I am comfortable talking about money, I deliver when I said I would, and I do not disappear after the invoice.
What I shoot with
Sony a7R V, with a Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II and a Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II for everything that matters, a 20mm f/1.8 for the wide and night work, and a Sony FE 200-600mm G OSS for wildlife and anything that will not let you close the distance. Aerial work is flown on a DJI Mavic 4 Pro. Sixty-one megapixels means a frame can crop hard and still print at 24×36.
Working with me
Insured, under contract, releases signed on the day. I hold copyright and license the work to you, which is standard and protects both of us. Certificate of insurance available before we shake hands.
Based in
Wichita, Kansas. I hunt & fish here. Regular in the Flint Hills, western Kansas, and on the Arkansas and Kansas rivers, with trips to Missouri’s Ozark trout parks and Lake Taneycomo, Arkansas’s White River, the Texas redfish flats, Colorado’s Gold Medal water, and Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness and Red Meadow Lake. Travel anywhere the hunt or the fishing is.
Get in touch
jerod@jerodcox.com
(316) 322-3572
Follow the work
Instagram: @jerodcoxoutdoor
Booking
Check your dates
Tell me the specifics and I will come back within 24 hours with availability and a number. No obligation, no sales sequence.
Prefer to just reach out directly?
jerod@jerodcox.com
(316) 322-3572