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MY BACKGROUND

Hailing from Southern Montana I have always felt serenity in remoteness, at ease in nature, and innately drawn to the visual environment that surrounds me. And although I have spent the majority of my life living in Billings Montana, I would say I was raised outdoors, at our family cabin in a remote area South of Dillon.

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Design and composition has been a passion of mine for as far back as memory serves. Around 2015 I started making an attempt to document objects and environments in pleasing compositions using my camera phone. In the following years, my interest in photography continued to grow. This lead me to acquire an entry level Olympus E-M10 in 2021. Unfortunately, the E-M10 lasted only long enough for me to desire more sophisticated equipment; it ceased to function after a mishandling in 2022. Which lead me to purchase my current professional line camera, an Olympus E-M1 ii. Since then I have slowly accumulated top-of-the-line PRO lenses covering 7mm (ultra-wide) up to 600mm (tightly zoomed-in).

 

I want to continue to see growth in my photography, which has been the catalyst of this website. With a background in design and architecture, and an eye for aesthetics, I would delight in the opportunity to assist in your project.

Cody Hildreth stands on top of a boulder, over looking an alpine lake
PHOTO COURTESY OF DEREK HILDRETH
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WHAT IS STUDIO48

Studio48, or Studio Forty Eight, was an ambiguous concept. The inception of which occurred in my days at university when I found a desire to make a business card as a design study. A business card does, however, require a business to represent and the fictitious Studio48 surfaced in mind. Since then, Studio48 and variants of it have been utilized for various online presences. For example, Project48 as an Instagram handle. Now Studio48 has been solidified as an entity for sharing and distributing my photography and, perhaps someday, other creative endeavors.​​

Pictured: An island of habitat and vegetation in an otherwise harsh and barren mountainside.

MY GEAR

Cameras

  • OLYMPUS E-M1 MARK II

Lenses

  • OM SYSTEM M.ZUIKO 150-600mm F5-6.3

  • OM SYSTEM M.ZUIKO 12-100mm F4 PRO

  • OM SYSTEM M.ZUIKO 7-14mm F2.8 PRO

Drone

  • DJI MAVIC MINI 

  • Facebook
  • Instagram

START A PROJECT

© 2026 Cody Hildreth

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