Clearly this is NOT a picture of Willie Nelson, but we (our photographers at P-Tn) are “Back on the Road Again”!  That is the LaCygne, Kansas Power Plant on the right, high-voltage transmission lines on the left, and our Head Photographer and Drone Pilot (Travis Berndt) walking along another rural highway . . . We do this all the time – really.  We walk (or occasionally fly over) hundreds of miles of streets, roads, and highways – thousands of miles over the course of FIFTY YEARS in business.  ... Read More about BACK on the ROAD AGAIN!

… and another ProgressWEBCAM start-up!  We keep that phrase going, especially during the non-winter months, as our clients order ProgressWEBCAM Systems for their remote construction project sites.  Our peak occurs during the summer and fall, but we operate ProgressWEBCAM units year-round, of course.  This start-up involves one of our T-M-S units at a site in rural Iowa, where L.G. Barcus is preparing to replace an existing railroad bridge.  Their project team will be monitoring the critical ... Read More about ProgressWEBCAM REMOTE Site-Monitoring

We imagine that our blog title will get a lot of attention, but we’re writing to thank BS* + beer for their contribution to the Turner High School Building Trades Class!  Not BEER, but a $1000 donation to help cover cost of the ongoing wireless broadband connection that runs our P-Tn ProgressWEBCAM on site at the newest residential building project for the Building Trades Class.  P-Tn has donated the hardware, expertise, and an Online INTERFACE so the school and community can watch this 1-2 year ... Read More about BS & BEER AT TURNER HIGH SCHOOL

Click READ MORE to watch the FULL video TIME-LAPSE for this slideshow . . .  or this 'short version' that's edited down for Social Media posts & marketing use . . . and we've included links to others, too.  We’ve created many, and we’re sharing just a preview slideshow in this image.  To see more P-Tn Time-Lapse VIDEOS, make a selection from the list below, and click to view! The ‘other’ reason for utilizing a P-Tn ProgressWEBCAM Site-Monitoring System on your construction project site ... Read More about IT’S TIME FOR A TIME-LAPSE

We mentioned our new 'digs' last year, and now we're fully settled into our Operations Office. We employed one of our INTERIOR ProgressWEBCAM Units to capture some of the work that went into getting an empty space set up and organized for our production staff workstations, with a shop for maintenance of our small fleet of TMS Trailer Units, plus an office for GM and Head Photographer (and DRONE Pilot), Travis, as well as a conference room so we can meet with more of you - our valued clients.  ... Read More about New OPERATIONS OFFICE

Professional photography of commercial real estate properties will elevate the quality of the images you share with potential investors, buyers, and prospective tenants. P-Tn delivers a 'package' that includes a dozen ground-level exterior views of the building and property. In addition, a series of UAS-Drone AERIAL views will show the structure, roof, parking areas, entire property, and the adjacent streets, major interchanges, or infrastructure. We will include interior views that document ... Read More about COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

Understand DRONE OPERATION FUNDAMENTALS by downloading our DRONE MYTHS FLYER! An IMPORTANT reminder . . . to ASK, and VERIFY!  It's critically important, and easy to do. Ask your UAS-Drone PILOT - whether hired or a volunteer … whether a friend, relative, or associate - if they have been FAA Certified.  If the answer is "yes!", simply ask for their Certificate number. Then visit the official government FAA AIRMAN REGISTRY to enter their name or number, and you'll know for ... Read More about DRONE MYTHS & PILOT CERTIFICATION

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?