Bridge construction and repair is unusual work, and so is capturing that work in aerial imagery that shares the unique logistics, processes, and skills needed to successfully complete this type of work. We are proud to have L.G. Barcus & Sons as a decades-old client. We've been photographing their pier-drilling operations and bridge building activities for a long time ... and now we utilize our FAA Certified UAS-Drone Pilots to capture fascinating views of their crews completing their unique ... Read More about BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION AERIALS

Check out the completed structure in this follow-up AERIAL VIDEO!   We love this stuff!  For fifty years, and more, we’ve been photographing construction progress on projects large and small.  As founder, my first steps into the business of photography were my mud-covered boot prints on many a construction site.  This video edit from a recent AERIAL Progress Report for our client – Dondlinger Construction, HQ’d in Wichita, Kansas -- shows how we do progress documentation on some jobs today, ... Read More about AERIAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY

Introducing the NEW iPlanTables Mobile Commander. Get the power of a 43" Touchscreen at your incident, jobsite, or for onsite plan review and management.  Mobile training is also a great use, but the list goes on. A complete turnkey solution, mounted and ready for field use in your SUV or VAN.  As use of the iPlanTables Interactive Touchscreen approach to electronic document handling / management / storage grows among City Planners and Fire Marshals, we’re keeping up, with new models ... Read More about NEW iPlanTables MOBILE COMMANDER

We told you … Turner High School is building another HOUSE! Construction is getting underway for the Turner High School Woodworking Class new residential build.  Scott Hughes and his students will begin managing construction of their newest spec home in Kansas City, Kansas.  This project offers hands-on participation and involvement of students in his classes during this academic year and the next.  P-Tn is supporting the effort with one of our popular Visual Documentation ... Read More about HIGH SCHOOL CLASS BUILDS A HOUSE!

This photograph of the beautiful Optimist River Park in Blair, Nebraska and the nearby Missouri River Bridge is simply a reminder that we travel.  Did you know we travel?  Although most of our photographic, video, drone, and ProgressWEBCAM work is indeed handled in the Kansas City Metro and surrounding 100-miles, we travel out of town for a considerable amount of work.  ProgressWEBCAMS are intended for remote locations, and we install.  Quality UAS-Drone imagery is not ... Read More about DO YOU KNOW WE TRAVEL?

1.)  What is a SPOOL MACHINE, anyway? View this VIDEO!    Watch it pull from 60 SPOOLS at once!… and      2.) What does it have to do with photography?  1.)  It is a motorized piece of equipment that permits SPOOLING or RE-spooling of all types of electrical (and other) wire from BULK rolls to job-sized SPOOLS.  Obviously, you will gain big savings on wire purchasing.  Download our BROCHURE for the details!  2.)  Well … frankly, NOTHING.  We have had a long-term business relationship with the ... Read More about THE SPOOL MACHINE

This (Turner High School) student-built saw horse is the only piece of equipment on the vacant site for a soon to be underway residential home build, which is the focus of a Turner High School Building Trades Class program that involves management of the entire build (and eventual sale, of course) of a house in the local community.  At the same time, high school students who have an interest in the construction industry and associated trades are offered a unique level of participation in ... Read More about STUDENT-BUILT SAW HORSE

We’re sharing a social media post by Travis Brungardt, with Catalyst Construction of Prairie Village, Kansas. He’s pointing out the advantages of our ProgressWEBCAM Site Monitoring Systems, which we have in operation on three residential projects for Catalyst.  His VIDEO POST (from his INSTAGRAM CatalystBuilt) points out that he can quickly check all three project sites to see just how bad the weather conditions on that snow day, along with which crews might be on-site, and the condition of ... Read More about SNOW DAY – REMOTE MONITORING

WEATHER - BAD Weather, is not the only thing you might want to keep track of at your local or out-of-town job site ... there may be a lot of things going on.  However, you CAN do it from the comfort of your office!  We install and host ProgressWEBCAMS on many different construction projects. Our systems deliver PICS to an online archive throughout the work day, so you can check to see what’s going on now, and look back to see what happened earlier ... today, yesterday, last week, or last month.  ... Read More about HOW’s THE WEATHER (at your job site)?