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Ellen & Kerstin at Charikot

Ellen & Kerstin at Charikot

Road Sisters Beyond Borders

Underground Art Klamath Falls

Underground Art Klamath Falls

Summer Skate Art Pop-Up Video loop

Spotlight on Delta

Spotlight on Delta

Adobe Summit Customer Story

Graphic Artist Yuko Shimizu

Graphic Artist Yuko Shimizu

This Yuko Shimizu did NOT create Hello Kitty - Adobe "Inspire" Artist Profile

Postcards from 2022

Postcards from 2022

Aundre Larrow

Aundre Larrow

The Unlock: Aundre Larrow on photography, empathy, and honing your craft.

SF Street Artist fnnch

SF Street Artist fnnch

Launching a product collaboration with Williams-Sonoma

Eames Birthday Challenge

Eames Birthday Challenge

Adobe's tribute to Charles Eames on his birthday. They gave 6 artists this iconic chair to see what they would create

Chicago artist Jason Seiler

Chicago artist Jason Seiler

Inspiration, philosophy and a painting of a dead pig - Adobe "Creative Voices" Profile

Jeremy Packer - aka Zombie Yeti

Jeremy Packer - aka Zombie Yeti

Dope design from the “middle of nowhere, Indiana” - Adobe "Create" Artist Profile

Cyrus Highsmith & Victoria Rushton

Cyrus Highsmith & Victoria Rushton

Profile of the font foundry Type Network for the Adobe Typekit Marketplace

Textile Artist Janet Echelman

Textile Artist Janet Echelman

Profiling the concept and creation of these otherworldly textile sculptures - Adobe "Create" Artist Profile

Adobe Creative Tools

Adobe Creative Tools

4 artists were asked to demo Adobe's Pen & Ruler tools for tablets

Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams

Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams

Profile of Barcelona based DVEIN, a creative studio using Creative Cloud for Teams to streamline their creative process

Oculus Story Studio

Oculus Story Studio

What is Oculus Story Studio? A Sundance Film Festival promo video for Story Studio

Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson

Photo manipulation artist from Sweden - Adobe "Inspire" Artist Profile

Adobe Character Animator

Adobe Character Animator

Adobe chose a live on-air Q&A with Homer Simpson to highlight the capabilities of its software Character Animator

San Francisco based Obscura Digital

San Francisco based Obscura Digital

Think big, Do big - Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams

Brooklyn's Mighty Oak

Brooklyn's Mighty Oak

Just a bunch of nerds who are obsessed with telling stories - Adobe "Create" Artist Profile

Considering Source Han Serif

Considering Source Han Serif

A Pan-CJK typeface family from Adobe Type, released in response to a need for a unified typeface design to serve the 1.5 billion people in East Asia

Krautkopf

Krautkopf

Food stylists and photographers Krautkopf for Adobe Lightroom

about.
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Spiti Valley, Indian Himalaya, 2025

Content Creator by profession...

En route from Florida to San Francisco in a 1965 Plymouth Belvedere, I found myself tinkering with the carburetor at the peak of the Continental Divide. Knowing I'd make a terrible mechanic, I earned a B.A. from San Francisco State.

I have been helping people develop and tell their stories on screen for over 25 years: starting in news at KRON San Francisco, then moving through Industrial Light & Magic as a visual effects editor, Wild Brain animation, a feature film in Toronto, and eventually emotion studios in Sausalito, developing and editing campaigns for Adobe, Cisco, GM, and Delta.

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Lakeview Regional Hospital, Oregon,  2019

What doesn't kill you...

The start of a global pandemic seemed like a good time to head for a lower population density: I traded Fairfax, CA, for the eastern Oregon high desert. At the base of the Cascades, with a view to the west over Klamath Lake, I designed and built my home.

 

I reignited my love of dirt riding in the Eastern Oregon Outback. After meeting a berm in the Warners on a friend's Honda XL650, I bought a modified Beta125 motard. 

Adventurer at heart...

I've adventured around the world: backpacking Torres del Paine, Nanga Parbat Base Camp, and the temples of Angkor Wat; riding Himmies up to Muktinath in Nepal and through the Spiti Valley in India.

I'm currently pursuing my SMAW welding cert and I'm a hobbyist blacksmith. I'm still not a mechanic — but I know exactly what a good story needs. 

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Golden Temple, Srinagar, 1995

Paths forward...

I've been tracing the dusty two-tracks and dark skies of southeastern Oregon on a BMW F650GS — and founded Dark Sky Riders, a women-led ADV group out of Klamath Falls.

In September 2024, I joined Klamath Community College as Digital Media Design Department Lead where I now shape the next generation of visual storytellers.​ But I miss working at the intersection of strategy and production, where the standard is non-negotiable and the team knows it.

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 Plush, Oregon, 2024

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Spiti Valley, Indian Himalaya, 2025

The Next Adventure...

I'm interested in relocating to the Columbia River Gorge, where my brother has opened a downwinding specialty outfitter in Stevenson, WA.

I want to be closer to family and have an opportunity to explore another breathtaking part of the world, with a company dedicated to outfitting the most challenging adventures.

contact.
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CONTACT

Ellen Schade

hello@ellenschade.com

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