Dallas-Fort Worth
Somebody has to be in the room.
Event, sports, and lifestyle photography in Dallas-Fort Worth. Twelve years of showing up for the thing that only happens once.
The work happens, and then it disappears.
Here is how it usually goes. A team plans something for six months. Budget, venue, run of show, speakers, catering, the whole build. The day comes, it goes well, everybody goes home.
Two weeks later somebody asks in a meeting whether anyone got pictures. What comes back is thirty phone photos, half of them blurry, most of them of the back of a head. There is nothing for the recap, nothing for the funder, nothing for the site, and nothing to send the people who showed up.
That is the gap Taken By Storm exists to close.
I show up, I read the room, and I hand back a gallery your team can work from for the next twelve months. That is the whole job.
What you are actually paying for
Anybody can hold a camera. Here is what makes the difference on the day.
Somebody was there.
This is the part that keeps getting more valuable. Images can be generated now. The moment your team actually had cannot be. Everything Taken By Storm delivers was shot on location, on a camera, at a real event, and it holds up when someone asks where it came from.
Somebody who knew where to stand.
I read a run of show before I arrive. I know the check presentation is the shot, that the panel photo people actually use is the one during the laugh, and that the executive who has to leave at 2 needs to be photographed by 1:30. You should not have to direct your photographer through your own event.
Somebody who knows what happens after.
I spend the other half of my working life building the systems that photographs go into. Program sites, learning platforms, communications infrastructure. So I am not shooting for the night. I am shooting for the report in March, the grant renewal in June, and the eight posts your team needs before the next one. It changes what I take and how I hand it over.
Somebody you can hand off to.
Galleries arrive organized, corrected, and labeled, with usage rights spelled out and print ordering already turned on. Nobody on your staff has to sort 800 frames or answer a question about who is allowed to post what.
Who calls Taken By Storm
Corporate marketing and communications teams
who need one event to carry a year of content.
Nonprofits and foundations
who have to prove the work happened. Funders want evidence. Photographs are evidence.
Event producers and conference organizers
who need someone who can run a full day without being managed.
Athletic programs, booster clubs, and select clubs
who want the season documented and the families taken care of without staff running a print shop.
Business owners, speakers, and professionals
who need pictures of themselves doing the work, not one headshot against a gray wall.
Recent work
Wells Fargo Dallas. The Family Business Summit. A veteran receiving donated transportation. The South Dallas Community Impact Grant. Emerge. Tacos and Beats. Graduations, sidelines, and a lot of rooms in between.
"Wow, would be an understatement. Working with Chelsé was amazing. She captured everything I imagined in my head, without me giving her instructions or wondering if the end product would meet my expectation. She did not meet it, she exceeded it. We will certainly be working together again. Her work, style, and professionalism speaks for itself. Great job."
Two ways this usually starts.
You have a date and you need it covered. Or you have four hundred images from something that already happened and no idea what to do with them. Either one, send a note.