Brainerd vs. Spring Lake Park
A full game cut to its best two and a half minutes, edited the way I learned in television: the big plays, the reactions, and the moments between them.
Steve Leary Brainerd Lakes Area, Minnesota
Sports. Photography. Storytelling.
Sports photography and film shaped by a decade producing sports television at KARE 11. Football, hockey, the athletes who play them, and the outdoors in between.
Photograph · Grand Teton
High school football · Slow motion
Featured film
Brainerd vs. Bemidji
Brainerd’s 49–35 playoff win over Bemidji, filmed and edited by Steve Leary. Best with the sound on.
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Photography
Away from the field.
Landscapes and wildlife from time spent outdoors. Select any photograph to view it full size.
About
A producer’s eye, now behind the camera.
I’m Steve Leary. Leary Films is my photography and filmmaking, based in the Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota.
For about ten years I produced sports at KARE 11 in Minneapolis. The job was deciding which moments mattered, then shaping them into a story people wanted to watch, usually against a deadline.
That’s still how I work. Now I’m the one holding the camera: football and hockey, the athletes who make the big moments, and the wildlife and landscapes I find when I’m not at a game.
- Background
- Sports producer, KARE 11
- Focus
- Football, hockey, athletes, the outdoors
- Based
- Brainerd Lakes Area, Minnesota
Contact
Follow along, or say hello.
New work shows up on Instagram first. For anything else, a question, a collaboration or an idea, email is the best way to reach me.