Capture the place
On-mountain action, wildlife, aurora, events, lifestyle, conditions, and visitor moments, shot with the terrain sense to be in the right place safely.
Travis Rousseau · Lake Louise, AB
Mountain photographer. A decade in the field at Lake Louise.
Action, wildlife, aurora, and guest experience, with 50+ images in active resort use and the web, map, and publishing systems that put them to work.
50+ documented resort placements
10 years photographing Lake Louise
6 resort departments worked
403 690-SNOW
A decade of Lake Louise, photographed from inside the work.
Action, wildlife, aurora, dining, and guest moments, selected from images the resort has already put to use on its website, signage, ads, and trail maps.
It all started with a day of taking photos with you... that was the beginning.
Capture the place. Explain the place. Build the systems.
Former pro patrol who's known this mountain for decades: the same field judgment runs from the camera to the publishing tools.
Explain the place
Local knowledge, resort operations, access, weather, terrain, guest flow, and visitor-facing context.
Build the systems
Fast public websites, maps, forecasts, search, publishing workflows, and offline resources that keep destination content working.
Hiring, commissioning media, or scoping a web project?
Each path leads to work that shipped, not promises.
Recruiters and managers
Resume Hiring for a team
A decade of resort experience across six departments, a patrol and safety background, and media the resort already trusts in public.
Marketing and brands
Work Commissioning photography
Resort-used action, wildlife, aurora, dining, and lifestyle work, each selected image shown next to the public surface where it shipped.
Digital and content teams
Systems Scoping a web project
Fast static publishing, self-hosted maps and forecasts, search, deployment checks, and offline-ready workflows you can inspect live.
The systems that put the photography to work.
Live forecast cards, a self-hosted 3D terrain map, and publishing workflows, built and maintained by the same person who shoots the content.
Weather, road, precipitation, visibility, and confidence signals are shaped into one visitor-ready card.
Local elevation, water, roads, rivers, trails, lift lines, and labels render as a self-hosted map surface.
Structured content can become pages, search records, JSON data, PDF files, and offline guide material.
The public site stays static-first, cacheable, and checked before deploy so rich proof does not become slow proof.
Mountain Conditions API 9 deg C
Updated just now Low confidence forecast snapshot. Wind 5 km/h W. Visibility 17 km. Freezing level 2722 m and rising. AB-1 clear; BC check separately
Base 9 deg C Humidity 83%
Alpine 2 deg C Alpine forecast
Wind 5 km/h W gust 11 km/h
Visibility 17 km Forecast visibility
Precip 0.3 mm rain / 0.0 cm snow Next 24 hours
Roads AB-1 clear; BC check separately Updated 7 min ago
Confidence Low 8 model inputs
Lightning Low score 16
wind 6 km/h; 0.2 mm rain; 0.0 cm snow; Low lightning
wind 8 km/h; 2.2 mm rain; 0.0 cm snow; Low lightning
wind 8 km/h; 0.0 mm rain; 0.0 cm snow; Minimal lightning
wind 4 km/h; 0.0 mm rain; 0.0 cm snow; Minimal lightning
Forecast updated Jul 3, 08:45 a.m. MDT
Terrain Map System
Real elevation, real lakes
Shaded relief drawn from the actual elevation around Lake Louise, with the real lakes in place. It is the same map you'll see in full below.
Mountain Conditions API
A visitor-facing conditions card built from weather observations, forecast output, road context, precipitation, visibility, freshness, and confidence.
3D Terrain Map
A local terrain scene with water, roads, rivers, official trails, lift lines, and projected labels for destination-scale orientation.
Web-to-Book Publishing
A structured content workflow that can publish fast web pages and generate offline guide formats from the same source.
The work behind the output.
Each case study is structured around context, delivery, tools, proof, and what it demonstrates.
Resort-used media for public destination surfaces
Photography and content support selected for websites, newsletters, advertising, signage, social, trail maps, dining pages, and visitor-facing resort content.
Field media in changing mountain conditions
Photography and content production shaped by terrain, weather, wildlife, guest flow, and resort operations context.
API-backed conditions for mountain visitors
A live weather and road-context surface that turns forecast data into a practical mountain decision card.
Terrain map treatment for destination context
A destination map design that uses relief, water, roads, trails, and labels to communicate place, scale, and orientation.
Structured content to offline guide outputs
A publishing workflow where one structured source can produce public pages, downloadable PDFs, EPUB-style exports, and offline guide material.
Static-first publishing for fast public sites
A maintainable web architecture with typed content, optimized assets, static search, deploy checks, CDN delivery, and small live data surfaces only where needed.
Working Style
Clear scope, direct feedback, useful depth.
Travis turns clear briefs into finished public work: plans, assets, pages, and tools. Written priorities and a defined decision owner get the deepest version of that work.
Booking photography, media packages, and destination web projects.
Available for photography, web/content, digital publishing, and mountain destination work where field judgment matters.