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01CaptureVideo and photography

50°29′ N 126°30′ WOrca Camp · Johnstone Strait

We capture the places people gather.

We flew this loop above Orca Camp as the sun set over Johnstone Strait.

We photograph and film schools, lodges, clubs and venues for the people who run them, and we have made films for our clients since 2010. When visitors need to walk a place before they arrive, we add a 360° tour. This page follows our capture of Wildcoast Adventures’ Orca Camp on Johnstone Strait from the first plan to the finished work.

02Photography and filmThe Vancouver Club · Wildcoast Adventures

We filmed and photographed The Vancouver Club as it reached for a younger membership.

The Vancouver Club has met since 1889, and its clubhouse on West Hastings Street is a heritage building. Younger people who might join told us they wanted history and authenticity. We captured the club in the fall of 2010 and again in the spring of 2011, and six of our short films followed its master barman at work.

A woman in a white dress sits among hundreds of candles under a crystal chandelier and tall curtained windows in the club’s ballroom.
Candles fill the ballroom for the club’s wedding campaign.The Still · The Vancouver Club · 49°17′ N 123°07′ W
A stack of the club’s black business cards shows the VC monogram and the club’s name in gold foil on a wooden table.
The club’s business cards carry its monogram in gold foil.The Still · The Vancouver Club
Guests gather around the campfire after dark at Orca Camp.Wildcoast Adventures · 2026

Our team’s documentaries have screened at SXSW, TIFF, Hot Docs and VIFF.

Watch Holding On to the Farm at the New York TimesOpens in a new tab
In the film, Ben Taft and Lewis Bennett visit the Bennett family’s abandoned farm on the Saskatchewan prairie. They co-directed it, and the Times published it in its Op-Docs series in October 2018.Read more about the film on Ben Taft’s site
The Op-Docs page on nytimes.com carries the headline Holding On to the Farm under the Opinion label.
The film’s page sits in the Opinion section of nytimes.com.nytimes.com · October 9, 2018
03The tourWildcoast Adventures · 2026

You can walk around Orca Camp from this page.

Our team built this 360° tour for Wildcoast Adventures in 2026. It links twelve panoramas, and four of them look down from the air.

Drag inside the tour to look around. The round arrows step through the panoramas in order, and the strip of thumbnails along the bottom jumps straight to any of them.

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At dusk, string lights glow among the trees at Orca Camp, and smoke rises from a chimney beside the wood-fired hot tub.

360° tour · 12 panoramas

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The interface keeps its controls at the edges of the view.

We took screenshots of the tour’s opening view and one of its cabins on a desktop screen and on a phone.

On a desktop screen, the Orca Camp 360° tour opens on a sunset over Johnstone Strait.
On a phone, the Orca Camp 360° tour opens on a sunset over Johnstone Strait.

The tour opens from the air on a sunset over Johnstone Strait.Screenshots from September 28, 2026

  1. The Wildcoast logo sits in the top right corner.
  2. Round arrows at either side step to the previous or next panorama.
  3. The button with three bars hides the strip of thumbnails and brings it back.
  4. The button beside it fills the screen with the tour.
  5. The strip holds a thumbnail for each panorama, and a phone shows three of them at a time.
04From plan to publishFour stages

Every capture moves through four stages before anyone sees it.

  1. 1

    Plan around the pages

    We work out which pages the images will live on and which questions they need to answer.

  2. 2

    Fly and capture

    First the drone goes up over the site, and then we walk the ground with our cameras.

    In controlled airspace over a city, the flight needs a Transport Canada Advanced Operations certificate and NAV CANADA’s approval.

  3. 3

    Edit and build

    We edit the photographs and cut the films. For a tour, we also stitch the frames from each position into a panorama and link the panoramas together.

  4. 4

    Publish

    The photographs and films go wherever the client needs them, and a tour can appear on Google Maps as well as on the client’s website.

05PlanStage 1 of 4

We plan each capture around the pages the images will live on.

At Orca Camp we planned around the questions guests ask before they book a trip. Choose a question below to see the captures that answer it.

  • Two guests walk up to a canvas-walled cabin in the forest.
  • A guide briefs guests on the pebble beach before they launch.
  • Sea kayakers paddle below a misty rainforest shoreline.
  • From the air, the wood-fired hot tub sits on its deck among tall trees at the water’s edge.
  • A guest sits in the sauna and looks out through the porthole to the strait.
  • The camp chef plates dinner in the open-air kitchen.
  • A plate of chicken and roast vegetables arrives at the table with a small cup of sauce.
    Dinner comes out of the kitchen plated, two at a time.
  • Two guests lean on the rim of the wood-fired hot tub among the trees.
  • Two guests raise their glasses at dinner under the canopy.
  • A towel hangs ready in the open-air shower.
    Water runs in the open-air shower under the camp’s string lights.
  • Two sea kayakers paddle along a sunlit forested shore.
  • Two sea kayakers paddle toward the setting sun.
Stand inside a cabin in the interactive 360° tourOpens on this page
06Fly and captureStage 2 of 4

Four of the tour’s panoramas look down on the camp from the air.

Guests reach Orca Camp by boat, and most of them never see it before they book. From the air, our photographs and panoramas show the camp tucked into old-growth forest with the strait opening out beyond it.

A drone moves in over the pebble beach toward the cabins.Wildcoast Adventures · 2026
  • Orca Camp sits on the Vancouver Island shore at 50°29′ N 126°30′ W.
  • Panorama 1 opens the tour from about 370 metres east of the camp.
  • Contour lines climb in steps of 100 metres, and every fifth one is heavier.
  • Lines on the water trace the shore outward.

When a project needs the view from above a city, we fly with NAV CANADA’s approval.

Canadian rules cap most drone flights at 122 metres above the ground. Ben Taft leads our capture work and holds a Transport Canada Advanced Operations drone certificate, so we can fly in controlled airspace over a city once NAV CANADA approves the flight.

The drawing shows a drone flying 100 metres above the water toward a city. A dashed line marks the 122-metre cap on most drone flights. Inside the hatched block of controlled airspace over the city, the flight goes ahead under an Advanced Operations certificate with NAV CANADA’s approval.

07The clientWildcoast Adventures

Maddie Lemke describes the Orca Camp work.

“They completely overdelivered and captured the camp and the overall experience beautifully. The 360° tour is an amazing addition to our website, and we now have an incredible library of high-quality content for our marketing.”

Maddie LemkeMarketing and Sales Manager · Wildcoast Adventures
08PublishStage 4 of 4

The finished work goes live on your website, and a tour can appear on Google Maps too.

We publish tours to Google Maps through Street View. Ben Taft was a Google Street View Trusted Photographer from 2011 until Google closed the program in 2024. On your website, as on this page, a tour can wait to load until a visitor chooses to open it.

Meet our capture lead on the studio page

Wildcoast Adventures put the photographs and films on its booking pages and social channels in 2026. When a guest is still weighing the trip, its team sends them the tour.

Where a client needs accessible tours, we build them to work with a keyboard and describe each space in text.

  • The tour opens on your website.

    It works inside your pages on a phone or a desktop.

  • Google Maps can show the tour too.

    Visitors who look the place up on Google Maps can step inside through Street View.

Guests can look around three more places to stay before they book.

  • Knight Inlet Lodge

    Knight Inlet, BC · 2024 and 2025

    Our team flew in by floatplane in two different seasons to film the grizzly bears and capture the lodge in 360°. Five First Nations have owned the lodge since 2017: the Da’naxda’xw Awaetlala, Mamalilikulla, Tlowitsis, Wei Wai Kum and K’ómoks.

    Open the Knight Inlet Lodge tour

    Evening sun lights the floating lodge’s green roofs along the shore of Knight Inlet below a forested hillside.
    A grizzly bear stands in a shallow river with salmon in the water around it.
    A barrel sauna with round glass ends sits on a covered float at the lodge.

  • Lightwater Cove

    Salt Spring Island, BC · 2023

    Our team filmed and photographed the retreat from the ground and from the air. Its 360° tour launched in 2023 with the retreat’s new website.

    Open the Lightwater Cove tour

    From the air at dusk, the Lightwater Cove house glows among terraced gardens and tall trees.
    The house glows at night under a starry sky beside the water.
    Two guests share breakfast at a table in the retreat’s dining room.

  • Basecamp Resorts

    Canadian Rockies · 2024

    In 2024 our team captured Basecamp’s mountain properties with video, drone footage, photographs and a 360° tour.

    Open the Basecamp Resorts tour

    Two hikers in warm layers look out from a forested ridge toward a waterfall.
    A guest reads on a sofa beside a stone fireplace under the word CANADA at a Basecamp property.
    A guest reads in a bright lounge with tall windows and grey sofas.
09SchoolsSt. George’s School · Stratford Hall

Families can walk two Vancouver campuses from anywhere in the world.

Our team made Stratford Hall’s campus tour in 2019 and has hosted it ever since. St. George’s School first had our team capture its campus in 2020, and a landing page from 2026 now brings its four tours together: the junior school, the senior school, Harker Hall and the city around the school. Students narrate guided versions of the junior school and Harker Hall tours. Admissions staff carry an offline copy to recruitment events and open it on a phone or a tablet.

Read the St. George’s case study

  • Open the St. George’s School toursOpens on this page

    “It was a pleasure to work with Ben to create a virtual tour for our campus. He worked with us to capture what we needed and tailored our request.”

    Emily Moir · Co-Director of Admissions, St. George’s School

  • Open the Stratford Hall tourOpens on this page

    “His attention to detail and overall production of the final presentation really helped to capture the look of our campus both inside and out as well as provide a unique interactive experience.”

    Jennifer Gunasekera · Admissions Manager, Stratford Hall

10VenuesVenues in Vancouver

A 360° view puts visitors in a theatre or a gallery before they arrive.

These views open in a viewer we built for this site. It loads a panorama only when you open it, and the arrow keys turn the view as well as a drag does.

Drag inside a view, or use the arrow keys. Plus and minus zoom, and Home returns to the start. Each view turns slowly until you take over.

We captured the theatre at St. George’s old senior school.

Rows of red theatre seats curve down under a ceiling of small lights toward a stage framed by red curtains.

Our team captured Thunder in Our Voices at the Zack Gallery in 2019.

Drew Ann Wake curated the exhibition at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery in Vancouver. It set historical CBC recordings of Dene elders beside contemporary northern Indigenous art.

Large photographic portraits hang around the white walls of the gallery, and visitors gather in the middle of the room.

Large photographic portraits line the gallery’s white walls, and visitors gather among them in the middle of the room.Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, Vancouver · 2019
The doors of the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery stand open beside a Thunder in Our Voices banner, and portraits hang on the walls inside.
The exhibition’s banner stands beside the gallery doors.Zack Gallery · 2019

Our team volunteered a tour of a heritage house on The Crescent for the Vancouver Heritage Foundation.

The tour’s seventeen panoramas date from May 2021 and run from the entrance hall to an aerial view of Shaughnessy after dark.

Open the heritage house tour49°15′ N 123°08′ W · Opens on this page