Traverse City West athlete turns images pastime into thriving enterprise – 910News.com

TRAVERSE CITY – Alex Marek, a junior at Traverse City West, has turned a images pastime he began final yr right into a profitable enterprise that paperwork the athletic achievements of his classmates. Marek, an athlete himself, has turn out to be a daily fixture in school sporting occasions, capturing hundreds of moments throughout totally different sports activities.

The enterprise started when Marek used an previous household digicam to take footage of his buddies. Since then, he has upgraded his gear and launched a private web site to promote his images.

Before dedicating his time to images, Marek was a soccer participant at Traverse City West. He ultimately swapped his pads for a digicam, although he stays an athlete who competes in pole vault and runs for the observe workforce.

Marek’s dedication to his enterprise includes a excessive quantity of labor and lengthy hours. During the college’s Patriot sport, he took roughly 4,000 photographs and labored via the night time to course of the photographs.

Marek prioritizes high quality over pace for each picture he produces. “I definitely take my time on each one to make sure it looks right,” Marek stated. “The most I’ve taken for shots is like 4,000 at the Patriot game. And, I was up, I started by 9:00 pm, and I was at my buddy’s house, and I stayed up to three in the morning.”

While Marek sells his work on his web site and thru varied organizational partnerships, he stated his motivation extends past monetary revenue. He famous that the reactions from the student-athletes he captures are a main driver for his work.

“I love doing it, and I don’t do it, you know, just for the money, profit or anything,” Marek stated. “I love seeing players’ reactions, to get the photos and everything like that.”

Marek additionally mirrored on the technical enchancment he has seen in his work since he started the pastime one yr in the past. He described the progress because of specializing in minor particulars that he beforehand ignored. “It’s crazy how much I’ve grown over the small little things that you think wouldn’t matter as much, over that time,” Marek stated. “But from there to now, it’s it’s been a huge improvement.”

Marek plans to proceed his images enterprise for the rest of his time in highschool. Once his time at Traverse City West concludes, he intends to pursue a profession as a pilot reasonably than persevering with images professionally.

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