Power Electronics × Houston Campus - Karma Group
Power Electronics flags and the ceremony marquee on the cleared Houston Campus site

Case study

A campus that starts as 53 acres of dirt.

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Power Electronics broke ground on its Houston Campus on September 24, 2026. We covered the day with Two Eighteen: the site from the air, the marquee built on open ground, the ceremony itself, and the reception that followed.

The challenge

There is nothing to photograph until there is.

A groundbreaking has no building in it. The subject is 53 acres of graded dirt and a marquee that exists for one morning. Everything that makes the scale of the project land is either invisible or temporary.

That puts the weight in two places: high enough to show the ground itself, and close enough on the floor to catch what only happens once. Shovels go into the earth one time. The room is only empty and perfect once, before anyone walks in.

Our approach

How we solved it.

01

Aerial first

Flew the site before guests arrived, while the ground was clean and the light was still low. The only way to put 53 acres in one frame is to leave the ground.

02

Empty room

Shot the marquee, the exhibit wall and the staged ceremony floor before doors opened. Clean architecture, no crowd, the version that goes in the deck.

03

The ceremony

Covered the program and the groundbreaking from the floor and from the back of the room, stills and motion running together so neither had to be recreated afterwards.

04

Deliver

Portfolio-grade stills and a finished film, plus the full original library, handed over ready for press, pitch decks and social.

Selected work

Selected frames.

Results

What we delivered.

Air and ground

one day, two vantage points

Licensed aerial alongside floor coverage, so the scale of the site and the moment on stage both made it into the same set.

Photo + video

one crew, one production

Stills and motion captured by the same team, so the look holds across both and nothing needs matching afterwards.

Portfolio-grade

built to ship

Shot to the standard Power Electronics and Two Eighteen use for press, pitch decks and client presentations.

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