Client: Open Cosmos, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire
Services: Anniversary event photography, CAA-certified drone photography
Headline result: Full photographic record of a 10-year milestone, including a drone group shot of 200+ employees
The client
Open Cosmos is one of the UK space sector’s success stories, headquartered at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire and making satellite missions simpler and more accessible. In 2025 the company marked ten years, a milestone worth recording properly.
Anniversaries are strange briefs. Nothing is being sold, and yet the images matter more than most marketing photography ever will. They become the company’s memory: the photos used in every future deck, careers page, and press feature that tells the story of how far the business has come.
Open Cosmos wanted the day captured, and they wanted one image in particular: the whole company, all 200+ people, in a single frame.
What we did
We covered the anniversary celebrations with commercial event photography, capturing the people and the character of the day rather than just a sequence of posed groups.
For the hero image, we used our CAA-certified drone capability to photograph the entire team from the air. Getting 200+ people arranged, lit by the right sky, and shot safely and legally is precisely the kind of job where certification and experience stop being paperwork and start being the difference between an average photo and a landmark one.
The result
Open Cosmos came away with a complete visual record of their milestone and a drone group shot that does what a milestone image should: it makes the scale of the journey visible. Ten years in, here is everyone. One frame.
Why it matters for your business
Company milestones only happen once. Anniversaries, HQ openings, team days at scale: these are the moments that define how your company remembers itself and how it presents its story to future hires and customers. They deserve more than phone photos.
Got a milestone coming up? Talk to us about capturing it properly, from the ground and the air.