Green Life Property Services

When I made the shift in my work to focus on product photography and branding, I knew it was going to allow me the opportunity to meet and create impactful images with so many amazing businesses across Jacksonville. And this session opened my mind to all the different types of businesses I could serve.

Green Life Property Services is a locally owned, eco-friendly, lawn care and landscaping company here in Jacksonville. The owner, Shane, and I actually go way back to when we were about 12 years old! Normally, I wouldn’t share a personal note on here when I’m talking about a local business. But it feels fitting in order for me to get across how much care, passion, and drive is behind this company.

Shane started out mowing lawns in high school, going door to door, offering his services, loading up his push mower into this god awful orange trailer (LOL), and just putting in the work! Now he’s grown it into a huge business with a crew, multiple trucks around town servicing clients all over Jacksonville from subdivisions to commercial contracts.

He did the damn thing! 👏

I share all of this and tell one of my oldest friends’ stories with you to hopefully introduce you to one of the biggest reasons I love working with local small businesses.

These are regular, everyday, hard working people.

The amount of hard work and drive and passion that goes into a small business; the amount of love that entrepreneurs have for what they do. Its inspiring.

I said this to a local business owner recently…

“We woke up one day and decided to do the damn thing!”

For Green Life Property Services? They’re out there doing the damn thing EVERY day. Showing up. Putting in the work in the most efficient, eco-friendly, reliable way. While keeping the environment healthy with their electric push mowers and non-toxic materials. If you guys are regulars around here, you already know what I’m going to say! Y’all know I love these small businesses with big missions!

Shane even went to school for horticulture so he could better his craft 🤯

So when Shane asked me if I’d be willing to drive around with them one day and capture photos of his crews hard at work for their online marketing, I jumped. One, I’ll be honest with y’all, I haven’t worked with a lawn service company before. So I’m always up for something new and exciting, your girl loves a challenge! Two, I get to go ride around all day with great people for a session!? Do I get to take the mower for a spin!?

…. (They said no 🤣)

It was such a fun challenge though to capture photos while working around his crews so I didn’t disturb their own work! Because this was not a staged shoot, y’all! That’s not what he wanted. He wanted to show the real, genuine work his team puts out there. My little legs never moved so fast trying to get the shot and then get out of the way of the mower - his team was very diligent about not running me over, but I was trying very hard to not get in their way all the same.

Until I wanted an action shot….

I wanted a shot of the grass flying around all willy nilly when they came by with the blower! So I got down on the ground, and asked his crew to come towards me with the blower, and blow the grass at my camera. I wish I had BTS of this part y’all, because when I tell you I was just on the ground, in a cloud of flying grass, scrunched up face, eyes half squinted, just clicking away, it was hilarious. I stood up and was just coated in grass. The guy with the blower felt so bad, I was like, “No, no, it’s fine, I asked for it!” 🤣

Do it for the gram!

Anyways. This was a much longer blog post than I had intended. I came into it planning on talking about the session, what we did, how it went. But it felt more important for me to share the people that make this business what it is. A group of hardworking, dependable, educated specialists and certified horticulturists that care about providing their customers with one of a kind service, and keeping your yard, and the environment, healthy. And that’s part of my why: I want your customers to see the people behind the business and to be able to connect with you. So that when they’re in the market, you’re the one they remember, the one that they know, and the one that they trust.

Be sure to check them out for your next sod installation, big cleanup, or just your regular maintenance - you won’t regret it.

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