Where we work

Calgary. The foothills. The Rockies. The world.

A global consultancy and media agency still needs an address. Ours is Calgary — and these are the 238 locations across 47 municipalities and districts mapped from it, each with its own page: light, terrain, wind and, for aerial work, the airspace that governs it. Everywhere else is a commission away.

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Three tiers, all true at once.

Operating base

Calgary and the surrounding communities, covered from the Calgary base. Most of the city sits inside the CYYC control zone, which is why the Advanced RPAS certificate matters for aerial work here rather than being a credential worth mentioning.

Regional

Alberta and British Columbia, and the rest of Canada on request. The owner need not attend: capture, post-production and delivery happen without them on site, and the finished collection arrives digitally.

Worldwide

A global consultancy and media agency, by commission: the consultancy is delivered anywhere without a flight, and production travels on a client-funded basis — the fee covers the work, the client covers expenses at cost. How a commission travels.

Where the work was made.

Every published project whose place the studio can show, listed by where it was made. A county is named as a county: those projects' own pages name nothing finer. Work made elsewhere, or with no place published, is on the work index.

21 corridors, 238 locations.

Every corridor has its own page. So does every location.

Calgary City Centre

The inner city — Beltline, Eau Claire, East Village, Kensington, Mission and the commercial core. Tower shadow moves fast here: between 10am and 2pm the downtown grid throws hard geometry across every low-rise roof, and a frame taken at the wrong hour loses its facade to a neighbouring building. Inner-city work is scheduled around sun azimuth, not around convenience.

Northwest Calgary

Calgary's northwest — Tuscany, Arbour Lake, Royal Oak, Sage Hill, Evanston, Nolan Hill, Valley Ridge and the newest phases beyond. The quadrant where the city meets the Bow River escarpment, so elevation change is real: a home on the west edge of Valley Ridge sits a hundred metres above the river it looks at. That drop is the shot.

Northeast Calgary

Calgary's northeast — Saddle Ridge, Skyview, Redstone, Cornerstone, Martindale, Taradale and the airport corridor. The most airspace-constrained quadrant in the city, and the one where the certificate held decides whether a flight is possible at all. Flat ground, wide lots, big industrial parcels, and an approach path overhead.

Southwest Calgary

Calgary's southwest — Aspen Woods, Springbank Hill, Signal Hill, West Springs, Currie, Altadore, and south to Evergreen and Bridlewood. The city's densest concentration of high-value residential, where the mountain sightline is a priced feature. Shooting it means proving the sightline exists, which is a west-facing, late-day problem.

Southeast Calgary

Calgary's southeast — Mahogany, Auburn Bay, Cranston, Seton, McKenzie Towne, Copperfield and the Deerfoot communities. Lake communities dominate: Mahogany and Auburn Bay both sell on water access, and water is the one subject that photographs completely differently from 90 metres than it does from the shore.

Springbank & Elbow Valley

Springbank's acreage country and the Elbow Valley corridor — estate homes on five to twenty acres, golf-course enclaves, and long private approaches off Highway 8. Acreage is the hardest residential subject to sell from the ground and the easiest from the air: only altitude shows where the property line actually runs.

Rocky View — Bearspaw & North

Rocky View County's acreage estates north and west of Calgary — Bearspaw, Watermark, Silverhorn, Church Ranches. Rolling ground, long gravel approaches, and properties where the house is a small part of what is being sold. The land is the asset, and the land needs a plan view.

Cochrane & the Foothills

Cochrane and the foothills hamlets — Bragg Creek, Redwood Meadows, Water Valley, and the range roads between them. Cochrane is built on a hillside above the Bow, which means a listing here has vertical relief most Alberta towns do not, and a west-facing town gets its best light in the last hour of the day.

West of Cochrane

The country west and north of Cochrane — Ghost Lake, Cremona, Water Valley, Madden, Dog Pound and the range roads between. Open Class G country where the constraint stops being airspace and starts being wind. This is where the foothills begin to work on an airframe.

Bow Valley & Canmore

The Bow Valley corridor — Canmore's mountain neighbourhoods, Exshaw, Dead Man's Flats, Harvie Heights and Lac des Arcs. Among the most visually rewarding and operationally demanding ground in the service area. Mountain scale flatters a wide shot and punishes a careless one: the valley funnels wind, the peaks eat the light early, and the park boundary is closer than most clients realise.

Banff & the National Park

Banff townsite, Tunnel Mountain, Middle Springs, Lake Louise and Castle Junction. The most photographed landscape in Canada and, for aerial work, effectively closed. These pages exist to answer the question honestly rather than to sell a flight that cannot legally happen; film and photography on the ground are another matter.

Chestermere

Alberta's lake city — Westmere, Rainbow Falls, Kinniburgh, Chelsea, The Cove and the lakeshore. A town organised around a single body of water, which makes the aerial case obvious: from the ground a lakefront home shows a fence and a dock, and from 90 metres it shows the reason someone paid for it.

Rocky View East

The country east of Calgary — Langdon, Conrich, Indus, Dalemead, Delacour, Balzac. Industrial yards, logistics parcels, quarter sections and the fastest-changing land use in the region. Construction progress documentation is the natural subject here, and progress work is the one aerial product that compounds: the value is the sequence, not the single frame.

Airdrie

Airdrie and its communities — Coopers Crossing, Bayside, Kings Heights, Windsong, Luxstone, Sagewood, Ravenswood. One of the fastest-growing cities in Canada, which in aerial terms means new-build subdivisions photographed at phase boundaries: the same frame in March and September is a marketing asset a developer cannot buy retroactively.

The QE2 Corridor

The Highway 2 towns north of Calgary — Crossfield, Carstairs, Didsbury, Olds, Sundre. Agricultural land, small-town commercial, and the quarter-section geometry that only reads from directly overhead. A field boundary is invisible at eye level and obvious at 120 metres.

Foothills & the South

South of Calgary — Okotoks, High River, Diamond Valley, Longview, Nanton, Millarville, Priddis, De Winton, Aldersyde, Cayley. Where the foothills roll into ranch country. Big parcels, big skies, and the province's cleanest west-facing golden hour, because there is nothing between the camera and the Rockies.

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan beyond the Alberta border — Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert, Yorkton and Maple Creek. Four to nine hours by road from the Calgary base, so every commission here is a planned trip: a river city of bridges, a capital arranged around a lake, the gateway to the boreal lake country, a parkland city of domes and canola plants, and a ranch town at the foot of the Cypress Hills.

Wheatland County

East to Strathmore, Standard, Rosebud and Hussar. Prairie proper: section roads on a grid, grain infrastructure, and light that runs uninterrupted from horizon to horizon. The flattest ground in the service area and, for agricultural and industrial subjects, the most legible from the air.

Central Alberta

Central Alberta — Red Deer and Sylvan Lake. A river city in the Red Deer River's bowl and a resort town on a 42.8 km² lake, about 20 km apart on Highway 11, so one trip can carry a brand film in the valley and a lakefront shoot by evening. The corridor sits 110–118 minutes north of the Calgary base: a day trip in summer, an overnight in winter.

Southern Alberta

Southern Alberta — Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. Two river-valley cities about 160 km apart: the Oldman River coulees under Lethbridge's High Level Bridge, and the South Saskatchewan cutbanks below Medicine Hat's Historic Clay District. Both sit inside airport control zones and both lost scheduled passenger flights in June 2026, so a shoot here is a road trip from the Calgary base with an overnight.

Drumheller Valley

The Drumheller Valley — Drumheller, Rosedale, East Coulee and Wayne. About 28 km of Red Deer River badlands, 2 km wide and roughly 120 m deep, most of it inside the Town of Drumheller since the 1998 amalgamation that made it Alberta's largest town by land area. The valley's attractions — the Royal Tyrrell Museum, the Atlas Coal Mine, the hoodoos — each set their own filming terms, so a shoot here starts with permissions rather than airspace.

Where aerial work is not flown.

National park land, provincial park land and Nation land carry restrictions that no level of RPAS certification overrides. Ground-based film and photography are unaffected. These pages exist because the question is asked, and it deserves an accurate answer rather than a quote.

Where the cameras travel.

The corridors above are mapped address by address from the Calgary base. These places are reached by travelling. Each page says what the place asks of a camera, which of the studio's work was made there or nearest to it, and how a commission there is planned.

British Columbia, Canada

  • The Columbia ValleyInvermere, Radium Hot Springs, Fairmont Hot Springs and Panorama — where two of the studio's aerial stories were made.
  • The ShuswapSalmon Arm, Sicamous and the Shuswap Lake shore — where the studio filmed Westgate Cafe from the air.
  • Penticton & the South OkanaganPenticton, Naramata, Oliver and Osoyoos — the wine benches of the southern Okanagan.
  • Golden & Kicking HorseGolden, BC, and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort — a Trans-Canada town with Yoho and Glacier national parks each under 30 minutes away.
  • RevelstokeRevelstoke, BC — a resort and railway town on the Columbia, with Mount Revelstoke and Glacier national parks to its north and east.

Further afield, on commission.

Market-specific perspectives for projects beyond the mapped corridors. Production travels from Calgary, with access and destination requirements agreed in the scope.

Coverage questions, answered.

Where does Atom2Adam work?

Worldwide. Atom2Adam is a global creative consultancy and media agency operating from Calgary, Canada. Calgary and the surrounding communities are covered from the Calgary base, Alberta and British Columbia regionally, the rest of Canada on request, and international commissions travel anywhere when the client covers travel and expenses. The consultancy — creative direction and strategy — is delivered remotely to any time zone.

Is Atom2Adam a global agency or a Calgary studio?

Both, stated honestly. Atom2Adam is a global creative consultancy and media agency with one operating base, Calgary. The consultancy needs no flight and is delivered anywhere; production is at home in Calgary, the foothills and the Rockies, and travels worldwide on a client-funded basis. No office, team or client is claimed anywhere the owner has not confirmed one.

Do you need airspace authorisation to fly a drone in Calgary?

Yes, across most of the city. Calgary sits inside the Calgary International (CYYC) Class C control zone, which requires an Advanced RPAS certificate and a NAV CANADA authorisation. That authorisation is filed before a shoot date is confirmed. Ground-based film and photography are unaffected.

Are there places you will not fly?

Yes, and they are listed. National park land including Banff and Lake Louise is closed to commercial drone work without a Parks Canada permit, Kananaskis is provincial park land under separate restrictions, and flight over Stoney Nakoda Nation land requires the Nation's consent.

Do I need to be present for the shoot?

No. Capture, post-production and delivery all happen without the owner on site, which is how owners of Alberta and British Columbia property who live elsewhere — anywhere in the world — are served. Files arrive digitally, and the consultancy that precedes the shoot happens by call.

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