Cody Updike
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Cody Updike

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Wedding and Elopement Photography

Capture your perfect day…

 
Lifestyle Photography

Lifestyle Photography

Bring your brand to life…

Event Photography

Sports, overland events, music festivals, conferences, grand openings, and more…

Overland And Automotive Photography

Camper vans, overland vehicles, motorcycles, and more…

Portrait Photography

Creative, fine art, and professional portraiture…

Landscapes

Bring the wild home with you…

Video

Storytelling the way it should be…

Cody Updike Adventure Photographer

Hi, My name is Cody Updike

I love to create, to write words that inspire, and take photos that inspire feelings of adventure. Growing up in the northeast, I live for the green slopes of the Adirondacks, but dream of places far off to explore and travel. I photograph events, weddings, and craft images that tell compelling stories for brands. Contact me for more information about bookings!

Blog Posts

There is something about the pure feel of creativity flowing through my veins that awakens the adventurer in me. Here's to always chasing that feeling, and searching for it, even when the spark seems to have burned out...

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thoughts from the back of a notebook: spilled pieces
thoughts from the back of a notebook: spilled pieces

Thoughts from the back of a notebook, from beneath the Game of Thrones castle, from beneath a statue in Croatia, from an airport in the UK, from a lake in Slovenia.

The Boy Who Walks In Shadow
The Boy Who Walks In Shadow

Days spent walking, nights spent bitter, moments spent thinking about the girl from the airplane…a long short story or a short novela, you decide. Some dark tale, written in a little black notebook while backpacking and hitch hiking through Croatia and Slovenia. Stories of walking and isolation and the ceaseless burden of darkness weighing about the neck of a boy who has seen too much.

desert memories: thoughts from the back of a notebook
desert memories: thoughts from the back of a notebook

Thoughts from a notebook, an ongoing series without rhyme, without reason, written in the back of notebooks, on bar napkins, in the echoing loneliness of a broken heart.

thoughts from the back of a notebook
thoughts from the back of a notebook

I often write words down on bar napkins, receipts, the palms of my hand, in the back of notebooks. They are random, in different styles, of different emotions. I am going to start a series, sharing these words, in their true fashion. They may not match, one may be poetic and another may be merely a description, but they are all part of me. I hope you enjoy

Story Time: The Hangman
Story Time: The Hangman

A new story time. A dark, urban fantasy.

words are coming
words are coming

words are coming

view through the veil
view through the veil

Usually crowds and tourists and hammering voices turn my heart sour and my tongue snapping. Today the moody sky and the little shivers running up my legs cool my skin, it’s as if the clouds are competing with me to be the grumpiest kid on the block. Darkness taps me on the shoulder and offers me a view through the veil.

unfinished
unfinished

It’s been a while. It’s been a while. These voices pierce my veins. These words leak into my bloodstream. You’ve been a while. You’ve been a while. These feelings flood my chest. These thoughts leave my head.

redwoods
redwoods

In the grey twilight I stand beneath giants.

there are no photos in this one
there are no photos in this one

I stay up late and watch movies, just to feel something. My guilty pleasures are broken characters, lost loves, and small hopes, rolled into an hour and a half of an emotional roller coaster

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Visual Vibes

InstaGram

Adventure Every Day

I never used to be one to post all my photos from an adventure, I’d draw them out over time. But now I prefer to just bombard you with the whole series, parade images stacked up into a story, an evening paddle, a hike, a run, an afternoon of bo
Some pics of friends and slow living and climbing this spring…swipe to the end for a spicy surprise and some juicy man butts #climbing #bouldering #adirondacks #optoutside #upstateny #exploremore #rocks
First big trail run of the season nearly cooked me. Death by pre-season vert. A little pre-season fitness test does in fact hurt you. Type 2 fun at its finest on this overcast and very wet day. I brought my camera to capture some mems for the first r
A year ago I was filming the soft launch of a Sprinter van suspension at a van life festival in Mexico. It’s currently cold and rainy in upstate NY. I’ve replaced overlanding and desert scenes for tourism boards and steamy dreamy ADK moun
Happy Earth Day! #earthday #hiking
I miss summer sunrises and weekends living in backpacks. I miss car camping and new places and overnight flights next to strangers whose faces and names escape me but whose stories do not. I miss solo dinners in foreign marketplaces watching strang
A collection of snow and trees and orange gear. Hiking to Lower Wolf Jaw the hard way, through 6 miles of untouched trails after a few snowstorms. Took us 7.5 hours to go 6.5 miles. I complained a bit, but had a good time and ate a lot of snacks. I&