Over 8,000 games and events shot across the country — and a playing career that means I know what it feels like from the field, not just the sideline.
I played baseball for forty years across sixty-seven teams, and wrestled and played football and soccer besides. When it ended I had two photographs to show for it. So I bought a camera and an editing deck, taught myself to make movies, and started making for other people's kids the film I never got.
That was thirteen years on my own before the business grew into something bigger. It's why the archive matters to me more than it probably should — every one of those games is somebody's two photographs. Building legacies for generations to come.
The hype film that plays while the teams are introduced at a state final. Twenty-three years of them. Forty-five hours of work per sport inside a fifty-five hour window.
The WIAA championship programs. Shot, directed, edited, written and voiced.
At the dawn of reality TV I followed the Milwaukee Brewers for a behind-the-scenes show for Fox Sports. Two seasons in the clubhouse, close enough that the players trusted the camera — which is the only way that kind of show ever works.
I was drafted by the Brewers myself in 1986. An injury ended that road and sent me down this one.
Six nights a week in season across six sports, our own broadcast graphics, an archive going back to 1990, and a growing crew of camera operators and announcers in towns across Wisconsin.