https://www.matthewwestmoreland.photos/oldportfolio daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228719231-KCY8J75VYVXHKRGBRDLB/IMG_0806.JPG old portfolio John Clifton Stewart, Jr. embraces trucker-turned-pastor Oran Moses after being baptized in Lavaca Bay, while Marker 48 Fellowship members applaud in the background. His caretaker, Veronica Crosby, right, helped Moses with the ceremony. Named after the channel marker closest to the place where services are held, the Marker 48 Fellowship operates on the belief that a church is a gathering of people, not a building. This was the Fellowship’s first baptism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228673701-T9SGE5VLLP4IZJQZOAOI/95a65e0d-66d8-4ad5-aa56-b554269e6903.jpg old portfolio On a balmy September evening, just as the sun dipped below the horizon, the audience at the Texana Raceway in Edna, TX, rose in response to the sound of the national anthem over the subdued rumble of stock car engines. Though it was a town of less than six thousand, the pit lane was full of drivers from across Texas, some of whom had been attending races at small dirt tracks like this one for decades. ✢ scroll to continue ✢ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228712505-OP347RVOVE3TJJV750WO/IMG_1493.JPG old portfolio In the darkness of foam-covered play castle, Jenny Anderson, a Victoria Independent School District speech therapist, steadies Lindsay Garcia’s hand while she uses her augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device to say that she’s ready to get up and join the other children. Tablets that run special software allow children with special needs to communicate with trained counselors at this new VISD summer camp for students with disabilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228779888-50FYEPNKVB710AX48DZX/vad_football_swarm.jpg old portfolio Bay City quarterback Dylan Davidson faces an inevitable dogpile from the El Campo defense during a game at Ricebird Stadium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580230538462-J8D5YIT7V8S4S2B0VI64/Screen+Shot+2019-11-07+at+2.08.43+PM.png old portfolio Vergie Bitterly, 83, and Louis Bitterly, 91, sit for a portrait on their porch in the afternoon light. The Bitterlys have been married for sixty-seven years and have lived in this home in Victoria, TX, since the 1950s. The couple say that they are “just as much in love, if not more” than they were when they were first married. Occasionally, they still blow kisses to each other across the room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228756570-FFCJJHM2UBSUOV23N87C/vad_tattoo_expo-4.jpg old portfolio Caitlin Cope, 19, has her face painted as part of the Victoria, TX, Body and Beauty Expo’s makeup competition on September 2, 2018. Michael Ramirez, 32, and other makeup artists were required to finish this makeup look under a deadline and were judged for their creativity, originality, and use of colors, among other criteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580229955596-SIHVLSQV8AYW6K0TB3TU/vad_generals_celebration_2.jpg old portfolio The Victoria Generals swarm around pitcher Garrett Alexander, who closed out the game against the Acadiana Cane Cutters to win the 2018 TCL Championship, 7 runs to 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228785423-O3OUQC877OQ46W66CJCT/vad_generals_celebration.jpg old portfolio The Victoria Generals celebrated their 7-4 Texas Collegiate League 2019 win against the Acadiana Cane Cutters at Riverside Stadium by sharing champagne poured into their bowl-shaped trophy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228754769-MY0QF7KM81HYGWS0H20P/vad_sunrise_fishing.jpg old portfolio A fisher casts his line moments after sunrise, just beyond where the Gulf of Mexico had been connected to Cedar Bayou by a nine million dollar dredging operation. Three years later, Hurricane Harvey, followed by a series of bad rainstorms, has transformed the landscape and closed the man-made cut, which was intended to revitalize the area’s ecosystem. According to local fisher and boat captain John Dunithan, the fish in the bayou suffer without the connection to oxygenated water from the Gulf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228713907-XSWLBKP305UJO0RF6X7X/FST_7667-2.jpg old portfolio A member of the Cuero Volunteer Fire Department hauls a fire hose to within reach of a saltwater disposal tank which erupted into flames on Sunday, December 16, 2019, near Meyersville, TX. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The tank, owned by BRB Concepts, LLC, was designed to contain the byproduct of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which uses water at high pressure to break natural gas out of underground pockets. Commenting on a similar fire in 2017, Neil Carman, the Clean Air Director at the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter, said that the hazardous material released into the atmosphere from such fires “at some point is going to drop to ground level, and it’s not good stuff to be breathing in.“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580230560926-NW1ZDZDALJ99GK3D9GS3/011319_film_trix400_scan_texas001.JPG old portfolio A diverse trio gathers around a chess board as the final day of the 2018 Texas Renaissance Festival winds down and visitors head for the exits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580228716533-PGO6DJ7S8FTNICPUY7JY/IMG_3381-2.jpg old portfolio Arnold Parker, 82, hadn’t played the guitar for twenty-seven years until he realized his grandchildren had never heard his music. In 2005, for his return to the stage at the Leo J. Welder Center in Victoria, TX, he played his favorite song, “You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.” Parker was welcomed into America’s Old-Time Country Music Hall Of Fame in August of 2018 for his 1956 track “Find a New Woman.” Here, he sits in his office, framed by pictures of himself from throughout his career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580229953006-304LSA0RK0DRQJKAKT2Z/untitled-101.jpg old portfolio Outside the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rusty Alphin, left, a vocal critic of Confederate statue removal and member of pro-Confederate group Heirs to the Confederacy, stands as a counter-protestor (who asked to remain anonymous) shouts anti-racism mantras through a megaphone. After learning of the February 23 pro-Confederate event on Facebook, anti-fascists attempted to drown out the Heirs members. Despite the removal of UNC’s Silent Sam statue late last year, tensions between pro- and anti-Confederate groups remained. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/1580618997826-6XQ8TIZG33UDBGEZLYA3/Westmoreland_Matthew_feature+2.JPG old portfolio A long exposure of Maestro Darryl One conducting the Victoria Symphony evokes the brushstrokes of Victoria, TX, artist Richie Vios, who, during this “Star-Spangled Salute” performance on October 27, 2018, had an hour and forty-five minutes to complete a watercolor painting of the Symphony in real time. 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His caretaker, Veronica Crosby, right, helped Moses with the ceremony. It was the Fellowship’s first baptism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/3212d127-afb7-442a-a4bd-96c5cc8f0dc2/picks-395.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/257f8f20-867d-44dd-8a8b-07b8b32fb9f1/RNI-Films-IMG-DFF6D72E-2431-4461-BA17-C9D3A501BE54.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/d9ae655d-2e82-47d1-9566-45750e85fda2/picks-20.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/3683f1a1-1855-4caa-bfae-e07fa1e49e6f/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+3.21.25+PM.png Denver Business Journal Portfolio Master Sgt. John Miller is reflected in the helmet of Victoria West ROTC cadet Joseph Edds, 18, while the Bloomington High School marching band plays the national anthem at the Veterans Day parade in downtown Victoria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/c7de4e3a-fa67-47aa-b518-62e12ef3fb73/3459E8A0-1A2F-4B4A-B3EF-0A1838A5042C.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/cb459c5e-31e5-40de-b505-81d2c3d85be0/F9274089-810B-4087-9687-8737AF38F605.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/d96cba66-cabd-4bdc-9e30-12c04d8bdf44/picks-.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f086fc46-ece1-4186-a5a5-fadc1e18fca7/news01.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio A passing nurse attempts to reach the victim of a collision outside Meyersville, TX. Years after this Victoria County crash, authorities arrested the driver of the tractor-trailer on a criminally negligent homicide charge. 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Though it was a town of less than six thousand, the pit lane was full of drivers from across Texas, some of whom had been attending races at small dirt tracks like this one for decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/68713e18-922f-458d-8707-8daf383ed04e/DSC_2010.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/192051b2-f46a-4cc6-a13e-ee30805d4a41/portrait01.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/7f1dda0e-fa02-420f-87b7-5637e2cc52c0/IMG_0929.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio Jaden Billie, 15, from Bowie, TX, helps Melissa, 14, and Rainey, 18, apply nails to the roof they are building for Victoria resident Birdie Girdy. It is one of many roofs that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Harvey. For almost a year since the storm, Birdie has lived with nothing but a tarp over her living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/964ae5c4-98d8-4322-b872-cf8f6196e3d2/RNI-Films-IMG-6FA7A3E0-9F5C-4F25-814C-C0E8BFD3E92D+2.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/d38af01e-1691-47ee-a8c4-125c658a561b/picks-15.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/dd055163-f4ed-4232-9cba-45c6afa7732f/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+3.25.51+PM.png Denver Business Journal Portfolio Pete Delgado, golfing with team 10B at the Bluebonnet Golf Tournament, digs into the grass and sends his tee flying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f282db33-6724-43a6-bb1e-ce15faf44273/RNI-Films-IMG-34959AE3-0E14-4E55-9EE9-9E5A1E79D5D0.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/6a586888-4faa-48d4-8ab6-1a677bd92796/feature01.jpg Denver Business Journal Portfolio Mason Tran, 17, shaves the head of Reese Bludau, 17, in front of the student body at St. Joseph High School. Bludau and classmate Sergio Calvo, in green, pledged to shave their heads if St. Joseph High School students met a funding goal to help Victoria Police Officer David Brogger, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/6ff98d2b-8d63-4f6c-8e22-e35324d159ff/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+1.58.17+PM.png Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/ac133097-916f-41e7-9a99-73da0f3a9b41/A03B0AAB-9C1C-4DAF-85B4-56D18625D8D5.JPG Denver Business Journal Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/705e9b57-5bf7-478a-b81e-2154ddb84cc8/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+3.31.57+PM.png Denver Business Journal Portfolio Kim Ross, 42, a breast cancer survivor, holds her husband Leo's hand during an interview at their home. His fingernails show the effects that Stage 4 cancer and various treatments have had on Leo’s body. 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Though it was a town of less than six thousand, the pit lane was full of drivers from across Texas, some of whom had been attending races at small dirt tracks like this one for decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/b6de49d9-bf56-4940-9e4c-fc132a1eafd1/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+3.17.31+PM.png portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/ba38e6d9-c3cf-4e37-b51f-258afa897281/selects-1-2.jpg portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/24902d0d-c0a5-4012-a9c5-560031550e59/22D410EC-F55A-49D4-856F-7D1852C29DC8.JPG portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/7f1dda0e-fa02-420f-87b7-5637e2cc52c0/IMG_0929.JPG portfolio Jaden Billie, 15, from Bowie, TX, helps Melissa, 14, and Rainey, 18, apply nails to the roof they are building for Victoria resident Birdie Girdy. It is one of many roofs that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Harvey. 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I specialize in food + bev multimedia work, but if you have an idea for another project, I’m all ears. In 2004, when I was just 10 years old, my dad opened a restaurant, and I’ve worked around food and restaurants ever since. For the past 4 years, I’ve produced food + beverage content in Western North Carolina and Northeast Ohio for clients like Ginger’s Revenge, Corner Kitchen, Chestnut, and The Chef’s Garden. Food - and everything that goes into it, from farming to waste - is my life and ultimate passion. When I’m not at work, I’m cooking, baking, or seeking out the next undiscovered hole in the wall. Your brand’s images are the first contact point between your customers and the experiences or products you provide. In a single glance, you grab their attention or lose it. I’ll work with you step-by-step to develop content that not only looks great and tells your story, but immediately puts you one step ahead of the competition and builds positive momentum for your brand. You know your food’s good; I’ll make sure it looks even better. https://www.matthewwestmoreland.photos/lily-and-shafi daily 0.75 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/5b57a952-d5f3-47d3-94e4-d33afecfd9e7/001.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/4f76480b-1420-4da5-8055-3c13f72426fa/Adobe+Express+-+file+%282%29.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/267c3f00-371e-4b59-a527-80ca114431f1/003.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/450a5d4d-bc3a-490e-8d8f-9d774d2efa27/004.JPG Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f620cdba-00c3-4b9d-83f6-3acb55375ca6/005.JPG Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f437d16a-0b09-4adf-95ab-567ca3c9da5f/006.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/0ea7f2b6-56e8-4082-bc26-e171e1653033/007.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/4577a71d-5603-45b4-b795-cb0c1ed8b4e2/009.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/c676dc77-bba8-49e9-b9df-ba18d860a9fc/010.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/fc5f4e42-f83c-4748-95ac-6d601b6317c2/Adobe+Express+-+file+%283%29.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/e879c40b-8dad-4429-a4f1-cf2edb0d8046/012.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/a4b6ccf6-abd0-447f-919b-7167293d0d82/Adobe+Express+-+file+%284%29.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/011956ff-9c7f-4a43-bcce-6b052b892689/Adobe+Express+-+file+%281%29.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/e33eebba-35da-498d-bf70-146097937d96/Adobe+Express+-+file.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f07eeb70-2927-41b8-89c9-0bac309d3219/Adobe+Express+-+file+%285%29.jpg Lily and Shafi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/bbe0b16c-f988-4835-b7da-eaacb1af589a/017.JPG Lily and Shafi https://www.matthewwestmoreland.photos/client-work-chefs-garden daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/24b815f6-92ca-49a9-9c5e-db2f578af956/image_2026-03-25_110718728.png Client work: The Chef's Garden For me, this is the platonic ideal Chef's Garden video. Farmer Lee's charm is on full display, we're engaging the audience with something they may not have seen before, it amplifies the qualities of the product, and it's a consistent performer on every short video platform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f642fb6e-11d8-4e50-82e9-b3e59427b9f6/image_2026-03-25_104527013.png Client work: The Chef's Garden Practical application of our products with evocative imagery is something we wanted to be very intentional about in 2026. These voiceover videos that focus on beautiful food in every shot are a key component of that push. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/7d3d723c-6bae-41d9-8db6-dc522906c490/image_2026-03-25_105043450.png Client work: The Chef's Garden Event coverage for Live Fire: 2025 at the Culinary Vegetable Institute. We love the human element of what we do, and the events at CVI are a major part of that, something I feel I was able to capture here. My background in photojournalism always benefits me in candid settings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e305ef969f2bc47ce5d4f75/f12a3a65-b6ed-4efe-acc7-5e0a1f6ea7d7/opera_jsg3sTLJIY.png Client work: The Chef's Garden Youtube Shorts have become an increasingly important part of our social media strategy and allow us to reach other demographics compared to Instagram and Facebook. This short makes use of a microphone with drone videography to mimic a shot from a camera crane to provide a dynamic perspective to a single shot. I love pushing the capabilities of our equipment to find new ways to record these videos while remaining subtle and tasteful in effect.