ongoing partnerships
Quarterly & Annual Photography Retainers for Seattle Restaurants and Product Brands
Created for brands that understand visual marketing never stops.
Designed With Purpose
Our Ongoing Partnership packages are retainer packages that know one photoshoot is not enough to consistently market your brand and capture audiences attention. Our retainers are structured in a way to continue growing a powerful content library of brand-specific imagery that you can use to continuously market and grow your business.
What is a Retainer
A retainer is an ongoing partnership – not just a repeat booking. Rather than scheduling one-off sessions whenever content runs low, a retainer locks in your photography calendar in advance, aligns shoots to your business rhythm (seasonal menus, product drops, campaigns), consistently builds your content library, and ensures your brand always has fresh, professional visuals without the scramble.
For food, beverage, and product brands, consistent photography is one of the highest-leverage investments you can make. A retainer makes that consistency predictable, affordable, and built into how your business operates.
Who's the Retainer For?
If your menu changes with the seasons, your product line grows every quarter, or your social feed needs a steady stream of fresh content to keep up with how fast your business moves — a retainer is built for you.
Our ongoing partnerships are designed around two kinds of Seattle-area brands:
Restaurants & food brands with seasonal menus, recurring specials, or a need to keep visual content as current as what’s actually on the table.
Product-based brands launching new items, running seasonal campaigns, or building a content library that needs to grow as fast as the business does.
If a single shoot has never quite covered what your brand needs for the whole year, this is the structure that solves it.
Choose Your Tier
Ongoing partnerships aren’t a separate product – they’re a structure built on our core photography packages: Essential, Signature, and Content Library. Choose the package that matches your content needs, then choose the commitment that fits your business: quarterly or annual.
retainer comparison
| Quarterly | Annual | |
|---|---|---|
| Discount vs One-Time Rate | 10% | 15% |
| Priority Calendar Scheduling | ✔ | ✔ |
| Preshoot Planning Call | ✔ | ✔ |
| Cumulative Planning Board | ✔ | ✔ |
| Active Commercial Use License | ✔ | ✔ |
| License Tail After Contract Ends | 90 Days | 6 Months |
| Annual Content Strategy Session | — | ✔ |
| Collaborative Image Selection | — | ✔ |
| Priority Editing & Delivery | — | ✔ |
| Bonus Images Delivered Every Session | — | ✔ |
| Rate Lock for Full Contract Year | — | ✔ | Referal Credits Toward Next Signing | — | ✔ |
| Upgrade to Annual At Any Time | ✔ |
Why does shooting with the same photographer all year actually matter?
Every session builds on the last. We already know your lighting preferences, your brand’s visual language, and what’s worked before – so planning gets faster and more focused with every shoot. The result is a content library that looks like one consistent brand story, not four disconnected sessions strung together. That consistency also saves you real time: less re-explaining your brand, fewer rounds of back-and-forth, and a faster path from “let’s shoot” to final delivery.
What happens during the Annual Content Strategy Session?
At the start of your annual retainer, we sit down and map out your year – seasonal menu changes, upcoming product launches, campaigns you already know are coming. That conversation shapes how we plan each quarterly session, so your content stays ahead of your business instead of catching up to it.
What is the Cumulative Planning Board?
Every retainer session is planned using a shared Milanote board – a visual reference for shot lists, style notes, and creative direction. Rather than starting from a blank board each time, your planning board carries forward from session to session, building a running visual history of your brand. Each new shoot starts from everything we’ve already established together, not from zero – so planning gets faster and your content stays visually consistent across the entire year.
What does "Collaborative Image Selection" mean?
Rather than just delivering a final gallery, we send annual retainer clients a wider preview of their best shots from each session. You choose which ones get our full edit and final delivery – so the gallery you receive reflects your eye, not just ours.
What's the difference between Priority Editing & Delivery and standard delivery?
Standard delivery is 30 days post-shoot. Annual retainer clients receive their edited gallery in 15 days, so fresh content reaches your marketing calendar faster.
Can I switch from Quarterly to Annual mid-contract?
Yes. Quarterly clients can upgrade to an annual retainer at any time, and any payments already made are credited toward the new contract.
What happens to my images if I don't renew?
Your commercial use license stays active for a wind-down period after your contract ends – 90 days for quarterly, 6 months for annual – giving you time to transition or renew. After that, a perpetual license buyout is available if you’d like to continue using your images indefinitely.
Do You Have More Questions?
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Not Sure Which Tier Is Right for You?
Every brand’s content needs look different. Let’s talk through your goals, your calendar, and which retainer structure makes the most sense for where your business is headed.