Wayne
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Profile

I get asked a lot how I ended up here. The truth is, it was never a straight line. It was one interest quietly leading to another.

My background runs through radio production, film sets in Georgia and Florida — camera department on productions like Dexter, X-Men: First Class, and The Walking Dead, post as an assistant colorist on Lawless and Anchorman 2 — and eventually into the corporate world, where I found that most of what I'd learned translated directly.

At my core I'm a creative, but I've always been drawn just as much to the technical side. Not just how something looks or feels, but how it works underneath. Color pipelines, workflow design, file structures, the invisible systems behind the final piece. I've always wanted to understand why something works, and how to make it better.

Since 2017, I've served as Media Production Manager at Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the Southeast's largest general contractors. I've visited and documented more than 200 jobsites, delivered over 3,000 photographs, and produced video content across the full company portfolio — from motion graphics to live event production. The work demands that you stay technically sharp and creatively present at the same time.

Photography and cinematography, for me, are about attention. The discipline of framing something carefully, of choosing what to include and what to leave out. Whether I'm at 400 feet in a drone or eye-level on a construction site, the question is always the same: what is actually worth seeing here?