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Behind
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Nate Reimers. Shop floor, Air Force, fire service, and now the guy with the camera.

Nate kneels with a cinema camera in the smoke at a live fire training

About

Nate Reimers

I was born in Japan and raised in the South, so my voice doesn't match my face. I take my coffee black and my tea sweet.

My dad sold to textile mills and machine shops across the red clay of the Carolinas, and I rode along. Those were the places where the shop owner swore Castrol GTX was the only oil worth buying and his bird dog was named Bird Dog.

I grew up deburring parts around a router, pulling parts off a water jet table, counting neoprene rubber gaskets, and putting hydraulic hoses together. I spent about six years in shipping, receiving, and deliveries at Dixie Rubber and Plastics, and ran my own grass-cutting business for a year.

Then I was an Electronic Warfare tech in the Air Force, and a firefighter. My work comes out of all of it: industry, the fire service, and the military. It's why I'm comfortable on a plant floor or a live job site. I wear what you tell me to wear, and I stay out of the way of the work.

Lensman Co. is me. If you've got work worth showing and people worth seeing, I'd like to hear about it.

The crew. Bigger jobs get a second shooter or an editor from a short list of people I trust and will put my name behind. You still deal with me.

lens·man /ˈlenz-mən/ noun · informal · since 1938

An old nickname for a photographer or cameraman.

A working title, like lineman, foreman, or journeyman. Someone who shows up to the job with a tool and knows how to use it.

Places my camera has been for client work

Map of 67 places Nate has shot for client work across the United States and Mexico, based in Greenville, South Carolina Bamberg, SCGreenville, SCGreer, SCTravelers Rest, SCColumbia, SCSumter, SCShaw AFB, SCMCAS Beaufort, SCEasley, SCMauldin, SCSimpsonville, SCCharleston, SCLaurens, SCMichelin Test Track, SCTrenton, SCAnderson, SCJohns Island, SCWest Columbia, SCOconee, SCMyrtle Beach, SCLake Keowee, SCNorth Charleston, SCInman, SCCharlotte, NCPineville, NCLaurinburg, NCLake Waccamaw, NCRaleigh, NCUSCG Elizabeth City, NCNashville, TNKnoxville, TNClarksville, TNOcala, FLDeLand, FLHurlburt Field, FLMacDill AFB, FLWashington, DCSecret Service HQ, DCJoint Base Andrews, MDU.S. Naval Academy, MDNew York City, NYLong Island, NYDallas, TXWilmer, TXSan Antonio, TXCollege Station, TXDyess AFB, TXBig Piney, WYDenver, COAir Force Academy, COPhoenix, AZNellis AFB, NVRachel, NVHill AFB, UTCannon AFB, NMBarksdale AFB, LAAlexandria test range, LAKingsley Field, ORMcChord AFB, WAChannel Islands ANGS, CANaval Base San Diego, CAFort Rucker, ALSemmes, ALWhite River, MOSpringfield, MODavenport, IABaja, Mexico GREENVILLE, SC

67 places · 20 states + D.C. · 1 country beyond. Based in the Upstate. I travel for the right job.

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  • SCBamberg, Greenville, Greer, Travelers Rest, Columbia, Sumter, Shaw AFB, MCAS Beaufort, Easley, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Charleston, Laurens, Michelin Test Track, Trenton, Anderson, Johns Island, West Columbia, Oconee, Myrtle Beach, Lake Keowee, North Charleston, Inman
  • NCCharlotte, Pineville, Laurinburg, Lake Waccamaw, Raleigh, USCG Elizabeth City
  • TNNashville, Knoxville, Clarksville
  • FLOcala, DeLand, Hurlburt Field, MacDill AFB
  • DCWashington, Secret Service HQ
  • MDJoint Base Andrews, U.S. Naval Academy
  • NYNew York City, Long Island
  • TXDallas, Wilmer, San Antonio, College Station, Dyess AFB
  • LABarksdale AFB, Alexandria test range
  • ALFort Rucker, Semmes
  • MOWhite River, Springfield
  • IADavenport
  • CODenver, Air Force Academy
  • WYBig Piney
  • UTHill AFB
  • NMCannon AFB
  • AZPhoenix
  • NVNellis AFB, Rachel
  • CAChannel Islands ANGS, Naval Base San Diego
  • ORKingsley Field
  • WAMcChord AFB
  • MexicoBaja

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