Web · E-commerce · Photo · Video · SEO · Ads
Now buildingwebsites, Shopify stores, booking engines, brand films and ad campaigns
The difference
Strategy, design, code, photography, video, drone, SEO, ads and social, all in one head. Nothing gets lost in a hand-off, the vision stays coherent, and you never pay for meetings between people you’ve never met.
Selected work
Services
Eight disciplines that usually take eight vendors. Scroll the dial.
No templates. Every site starts with what you need people to do, then gets a design that makes them want to do it: clear structure, strong imagery, typography with character and layouts that work on every screen.
Custom web designWhen off-the-shelf won’t do: booking systems with live inventory, payment flows, CMS-driven sites with visual editing, data integrations, interactive maps and anything else your business needs a website to actually do.
Custom web development & programmingStores that look like brands, not templates. Shopify when you need a full commerce platform, custom Stripe checkouts when you need something leaner, and product photography shot by the same person who designs the store.
E-commerce, Shopify & online storesSEO built into the site from day one: fast pages, clean URLs, structured data, image search, local landing pages and content written for people first. Then the Google Business Profile, citations and reporting to keep climbing.
SEO & local searchThe visuals come in-house. Matt Bansak is a commercial photographer and filmmaker published by National Geographic, Outside and Men’s Journal, an FAA Part 107 drone pilot, and Ruby Mountain Heli’s principal photographer for over ten years.
Photography, video & drone for your brandCampaigns that look as good as your brand: social content shot and edited in-house, paid ads on Google and Meta, email, and landing pages built to convert the traffic you pay for.
Social media, marketing & ad campaignsLogos, identity systems and the materials that carry them: print collateral, trade show booths, signage and social templates, designed to work with your photography and website from the start.
Brand identity & graphic designOutgrown Wix, stuck on an aging WordPress theme, or paying for a platform that doesn’t fit? I move sites to whatever is current and best suited to the business, keep every URL, ranking and redirect intact, and then host and maintain the result.
Website migrations, replatforming & carePlatform-agnostic
I design and build on whatever is current and best suited to your business, not whatever an agency happens to sell. Already on the wrong platform? I’ll move you to a better one and keep every ranking you’ve earned.
Moving off
Building on
A full crawl of the old site; every page, image and PDF gets a permanent redirect to its new home.
Titles, descriptions, headings and alt text move across, then get improved.
Schema, sitemaps and canonicals regenerated so search engines understand the new site on day one.
Redirects verified, sitemaps submitted and Search Console watched for anything that slips.
671 legacy URLs preserved in the Ruby Mountain Heli rebuild.Website migrations
Photography · Video · Drone
Your site gets shot by a commercial photographer and filmmaker published by National Geographic, Outside and Men’s Journal, with 40+ magazine covers and an FAA Part 107 drone licence. No stock photos. No second vendor.
Process
A working session on goals, audience and what success looks like. You get a plan, a sitemap, a schedule and a fixed quote.
Photo, video and drone shoots planned around the pages they’ll live on. No stock photos of somebody else’s business.
Visual design in the browser, reviewed together. You see real content and real photography, not grey boxes.
Hand-built, fast and accessible, with a CMS you can edit. Old URLs mapped and redirected so rankings carry over.
Launch, then SEO, ads, social and new content on one plan, with a real person on call when you need something.
“We would give Matt the highest possible recommendation and we wouldn’t want to work with anyone else. Matt is truly a master at his work.”
“His experience, creativity, communication style and ability to make revisions quickly allowed him to produce a website that is harmonious and cohesive.”
“He has always had top flight technical skills, been an attentive host and problem solver, and of course has a great feel for design and clean visuals.”
“His extraordinary original photography has become a key identifier for epr Marketing.”
“His artistic eye delivers clean, striking designs and his technical skills make everything work smoothly under the hood.”
“Not only an amazing photographer, but also very efficient and easy going. My ideas came together effortlessly.”
Ways to work together
Every project gets a fixed quote after a free planning call. Start with a website and add visuals, SEO and campaigns whenever you’re ready.
For businesses that need a site that finally works as hard as they do.
The site plus the photography and video that make it sing.
Your creative department, without the agency.
Local
Questions
Me, Matt Bansak, from the first call to launch and beyond. No account managers, no hand-offs. When a project needs extra hands I bring in trusted specialists, but you always deal with one person and one vision.
Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Reno and Carson City are home, and I meet local clients in person. I also build sites and shoot campaigns for clients across the US.
It depends on scope: a focused small-business site costs far less than a store or booking engine. You get a fixed quote after a free planning call, with no surprises.
No. I design and build on whatever is current and best suited to the project, including WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and modern headless stacks, and migrate sites between platforms without losing search rankings.
Yes. That’s the point of Upwind: website, photography, video, drone, SEO, social and paid campaigns from one person, so everything looks and works like one brand.
Ready when you are
Tell me about the business, the deadline and the dream. You’ll hear back from me, not a sales team, within one business day.
