VISUAL MEDIA: STORYTELLING THROUGH NARRATIVE LIFE EXPERIENCES
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With the current Business Climate, my industry of Experiential Marketing & Live Events was essentially paused due to the COVID pandemic as a Producer & Events Manager. In any given Summer, I'd be on a 6-9 month Tour representing various Clients across the country.
In reality, 99% of our thriving industry was wiped out with a handful of events taking place over the last few months virtually.
I took a look at my limited options, essentially pivoting to shooting at a private Motorsports Track in Arizona over the last two months with shocking success and demand for content from my Instagram postings from racers, agencies, and people in general.
A motorcycle shot at 1/5 of a second, where movement is the essence of Motorsports.
IMR RIDERS SERIES INDE MOTORSPORTS RANCH WILLCOX, ARIZONA
My goal was simple: Direct my time, effort, and skillset to potentially transition into being a Full-time Visual Media Professional & Part-time Producer with flyin/flyout Experiential Marketing Events when our industry does recover, becoming stronger as our industry continues to be a KEY component in driving Brand recognition and Revenue for any Brand that uses Experiential Marketing Events to drive Consumer Engagement.
I love our industry of Experiential Marketing, just contributing to it in different ways for the Client.
This is what I've always called "Touch The Brand" in XM Marketing, making the Brand REAL in the consumer's eyes.
When you see an opportunity for a shot you rarely see, you TAKE it in life. This is one of them of a fitness professional preparing for her MOVEMENT class.PIER 39 ULTRA MOVEMENT EVENT
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORINA
It's the feel, taste, and touch of a Brand that drives that brand to the next level.
After posting on Instagram, people I met at the track where shocked I've never shot Motorsports before.
However shooting MMA, Muay Thai, PGA Tour, Speedskating, Landscape, all types of Live Events across the country with Motorsports being a natural transition for my next genera to prosper in.
Always keep your EYE on the ball in life and not in the sand to blow your dreams of winning away. PGA TOUR SAS CHAMPION: PRESTONWOOD COUNTRY CLUB CARY, NORTH CAROLINA
It also helps I was on the BOSCH XPERIENCE Tour for 14 months Marketing GDI (Gas Direct Injection) to hundreds of Bosch Car Service locations utilizing Oculus Rift a Virtual Reality Technology to educate the changing industry of Automotive Technology, giving multiple media interviews on behalf of our Client, Bosch USA.
I learned a lot on the BOSCH XPERIENCE Tour with all the Passionate business owners I met, which the majority of were Motorsports racers seeing various cars & motorcycles transformed into works of racing art/speed... now seeing the other side of the industry from the track perspective. Jay Leno's Garage was a nice bonus too, spending the day at his Burbank, CA location.
AUTOSCOPE DALLAS INTERVIEW BOSCH XPERIENCE TOUR
It's truly full circle.
MARC ETENBERG is a professional MUAY THAI fighter & this is the MOMENT his arm was raised to win his fight after following his "fight camp" for 2 weeks last Summer Taking a chance, risking it all for the thrill of the moment from one of my favorite songs from the 80's movie RAD by John Farnham's "Thunder In Your Heart" pierced thought my mind that night.
LION FIGHT 54 ROUTE 66 HOTEL ABQ, NEW MEXICO
This time as allowed me to rebuild STEFANSHOOTS.COM into a thriving commercial website over a very short period with intensely developing it 10-12 hours a day of what all call "soup to nuts" in the industry.
Taking an idea, from a concept to working concept, to proof of concept with all the knowledge I've acquired in Financial Services (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), Business Development (interviewing C-Levels for industry trade publications), Experiential Marketing (Producer & Live Events Manager), a Master's Speedskater, and life long athlete.
Being a Master's Speedskater training & racing at 3 Olympic Training Centers, a Cyclist (TREK Madone 9 ETAP AXS) gives me a unique perspective on how to shoot Motorsports.
More importantly, how Track dynamics work with body position, apex, and just understanding the physical & mental demands of being an Athlete.
Another day at the office training as a Master's speedskater at one of the most ICON OLYMPIC OVALS in the world. I'm first generation Polish American where my parents came from Poland with a suitcase and a dream. A blood clot as kept me off the ice for the last few season, eventually I will return to retain my international status as on of the top 10 500 meter skaters for my age group, 10.5 seconds fastest 100 meter opener in CALGARY, CANADA. s. UNITED STATES OLYMPIC TRAINING CENTER: PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
I know what it feels like to hit a turn on Speedskates with 18-inch Blades or Carbon Fiber bike at 30 MPH, 55 MPH down a mountain in Lake Tahoe.
The thrill of the MOMENT....
MAX HUMPHREY is a professional MMA fighter, I had the opportunity to follow his "fight camp" for 2 weeks leading up to his fight in BELLATOR 222. This picture was shot at the end of a long private training session with WES his teacher just days before his left for NYC, NY at MADISON SQUAR GARDEN.
GRACIE BARRA NEW MEXICO BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU ABQ, NEW MEXICO
Taking a chance, risking it all for the thrill of the moment from one of my favorite songs from the 80's movie RAD by John Farnham's "Thunder In Your Heart" pierce thought my mind shooting Combat Sports.
Getting back to the question of contributing to STEFANSHOOTS.COM is simple.
When you invest nearly all your physical and mental energy into a new endeavor, you often utilize your services for free just to produce or obtain access to content you would never have the opportunity to with sweat equity.
Content is King.
Motorsports is the current Content, and with any Event, or anything I shoot, that will be the new content to create for a future Client or Guest.
1/5 of a second in a sport where movement is the key to winning.INDE MOTPRSPORTS RANCH
WILLCOX, ARIZONA
I have full confidence without reservation that Motorsports will be a focal point of my portfolio for years to come.
"Irons in the Fire" as a friend once said I met inline skating for 20 years in Chicago and Investment Banker.
I often say in Experiential Marketing: THERE IS NO WALL that we cannot overcome as Producers, Event Managers, Production, Client Services, and every Role that it TAKES to launch a successful Marketing Tour or Live Event.
You have to MAKE IT HAPPEN daily, it's that simple.
You must have the ability to solve a problem in five different ways like a small ripple before it becomes a tsunami with the butterfly effect theory.
A truly learned skillset in any industry.
Whatever the Challenge is, we OVERCOME it.
We have to.
It's your ROLE to MAKE IT HAPPEN for your Client, Guest, the Brand, and mainly yourself as an Industry Professional.
I learned a few things on the Walt Disney World College Progam in the Fall of 1998 Disney's Animal Kingdom too.
Thank you for your TIME (because I learned a long time ago the new "American Dream" is not always money, but time, it's priceless), your understanding of what it takes to develop an Idea & Concept to a Theory/Model/Application process I learned in grad school, into a live website.
"Golden Hour" is fast approaching in Southern UTAH where you see the silhouette of my shadow touching the shutter buton to capture the sun about to set at the perfect time. CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK WHITE RIM TRAIL
MOAB, UTAH
Everything is Energy. Energy is Everything.
Bill Phillips, Founder of EAS & Muscle Media 2000
We are all VISUAL people when it comes down to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Enjoy the "Reflection Of Moments" of what I call VISUAL MEDIA: STORYTELLING THROUGH NARRATIVE LIFE EXPERIENCES
Your contribution will be much appreciated in supporting my career as a Visual Media & Photography Professional.
One shot, one opportunity to seize everything you every wanted. Would you capture it, or let it SLIP. You WILL see this face in the UFC one day. JW is the epicenter of MMA training in the WORLD. And I CREATED the opportunity to shoot it with a CANON EOS R, EF 70-200mm 2.8, the "holy trinity" of optics.JACKSON WINK MMA ACADEMY
ABQ, NEW MEXICO
I’ve Produced thousands of Events across the country in Experiential & Event Marketing for Fortune 500 Brands allowing me to give Guests & Clients like yourself the ultimate experience of Guest Service with my Corporate Training on the Walt Disney World College Program 4 month internship.
I bring what I call the “Disney Touch” to every Event I Produce and shoot across the country.
My role is to provide your Clients & Guests the ultimate VISUAL MEDIA XPERIENCE with a concept I call “Storytelling Through Narrative Life Experiences” for your content creation.
"Never recreate places from your memories. Always imagine new places."
~COBB~ Inception The Movie
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Cheers,
s.