Kip has a extensive history of excellence in photography and filmmaking. As a drone pilot he has captured aerial content in many countries around the world, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Africa, and the Galapagos with a perfect safety record. He has flown missions for the US Golf Association to create aerial content for several promotional videos including for use during U.S. Opens. He is skilled in real estate, vacant land and product shoots. He has also worked with many central California growers to document vineyards, lettuce fields, and other crops. He is certified in UAS Precision Agriculture and can create both RGB and multispectral image data sets, including Green, Red, Red Edge, and Near Infrared sensors, to support the NDVI, GNDVI, and NDRE vegetation indexes. As a filmmaker and professional photographer, he has worked on dozens of National Geographic Society projects since 1998, and has extensive experience with a variety of camera platforms.