About Us
About Jon
The owner of an award-winning production company, TreeLine Productions, Jon has had the opportunity to blend his creative vision with an outstanding technical ability. Over the years, Jon has worked with various clients and projects that have found him filming around the country and the globe. His company has produced videos from 4,000 feet underground beneath the Continental Divide in Colorado, to 29,035 feet up on the summit of Mount Everest in Tibet. Before launching TreeLine Productions, Jon enjoyed the challenge of building and operating a Northern Colorado Bureau for CNN Headline News, in Fort Collins. During his 6-year tenure, Jon had the daily opportunity to cover news stories throughout the community he resides in, and enjoyed distilling complex issues and concepts into television easily understood by the viewer.Jon is very excited about the future of Podcasting and distribution of content over the Internet, even though he’s been “Podcasting” for years. In 2003 he provided audio and video dispatches from 17,000 foot Everest base camp to CNN in Atlanta, as well as orchestrated CNN’s first live satellite broadcast from 14,000 foot Aconcagua base camp in Argentina in 2005.
Jon lives in the foothills outside Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife Heidi and their favorite little Sherpa, their son Sam.
About Chris
Chris Marquardt, owner of media production company Top Floor Productions, has been in photography for 22 years, with his main focus on digital photography since 1999. He is the host and producer of some of the world’s most renowned shows on photography with his flagship show being Tips from the Top Floor. This show received the PodcastAward in the Education category in 2005 and 2006 and it is also part of 2007 “Best of iTunes”. His photography show Happy Shooting which he produces together with Boris Nienke, is among the most popular podcasts in Germany. In 2006 he kicked off the Photocast Network together with John Arnold of Photowalkthrough fame. This network now includes over 15 photography-related audio and video shows from all over the world and in all sorts of languages, including English, Spanish, German and French. Chris also has a regular appearance being the photography expert on Leo Laporte’s US-wide syndicated “Tech Guy” radio show, which is broadcast via XM Satellite radio and via many terrestrial frequencies and can be heard by millions of people every weekend.
Chris holds photography workshops across Europe and in the United States in both, English and German. He owns a photo and video production studio in Tübingen, Germany.
Chris lives in the historic medieval city of Tübingen in southern Germany.