Travis’ passion for aerial photography began over ten years ago during the film-only camera era. He started with attaching inexpensive Kodak cameras with servo-releases to gliders. But, limited to only one snapshot per flight, the process was excruciatingly time consuming and the image quality low. As camera technology advanced into the digital age, Travis began aerial location scouting with digital cameras for large advertising projects through Panoramic Locations. Frustrated that the images were never being put to an end use and photograph limitations of shooting from a moving platform, Travis created a pan tilt mount for remote controlled helicopters, enabling increased mobility and hovering capabilities as well as utilizing the larger higher resolution DSLR cameras that were available. The timing couldn’t have been more ideal—there was a continually growing interest in the value of high-resolution, low altitude aerial imagery. Starting ImageAbove in 2005, Travis chose to work with high-resolution cameras and Unmanned systems to fill a void in the market place and produce the finest quality highest resolution images available.