Cody.
Beyond the climb.

A reason to travel
in winter.

Cody’s ice climbing gives people a reason to spend time here beyond the summer Yellowstone season.

My work brings that winter experience to a climbing audience: the scale of the ice, the people on the routes and the setting around them. Photography and video make the climbing tangible, while longer stories give readers the context behind a destination.

Four days on location.
A story that kept travelling.

I covered Wyoming Ice Fest last winter as part of a paid partnership, spending four days shooting in Cody.

The work combined climbing photography and video with distribution through my ice climbing channels. The reported cumulative view count for the Cody coverage is now 10.5 million.

Aggregate views reported by Tim Banfield, not unique viewers. This is cumulative performance of the coverage, not a claim that all views occurred during the festival.

A longer connection
with Cody.

My destination work also includes published stories and photography about Cody.

These features were published in different years. They show an ongoing connection with the area, rather than editorial placements generated by one festival visit.

Images people remember.
Stories with staying power.

Festival coverage reaches people in the moment. Photography gives a destination a visual identity, and editorial work lets readers spend more time with a place. My Cody portfolio brings those formats together through repeated time on the ice.