It was back when Stone Cold Steve Austin was still in the ring, asking fans to give him a 91裸聊视频淗ell Yeah,91裸聊视频� that Stephen Ingle91裸聊视频檚 journey with film began.

Long before he started working behind the lens for his business Single Shot Productions, the Salmon Arm videographer was editing excerpts of wrestling matches and making his own highlight reels and music videos.

91裸聊视频淎s a kid, I was a fan of wrestling and that was kind of how I started editing,91裸聊视频� said Ingle, whose wrestling heroes include Austin, Jeff Hardy, Triple H and others.

Instead of focusing on developing his film chops, after high school Ingle took a diving drop into the world of professional wrestling. He trained in Calgary under the guidance of pro Lance Storm (Lance Timothy Evers). It was during his training that he picked up the name he would use in the ring, Shotgun Stevens.

91裸聊视频淲e were training to fall and make a loud noise and in my class I happened to be the loudest when I would fall, so they started calling me shotgun,91裸聊视频� laughed Ingle, acknowledging the name isn91裸聊视频檛 quite as menacing when you learn its backstory.

Shotgun Stevens wrestled mostly in the Okanagan, and almost always as the 91裸聊视频渂ad guy.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淲e had some big shows 91裸聊视频� we had Mick Foley come in and I worked with him, Jeff Jarrett, Jimmy Hart if you remember from way back in the day,91裸聊视频� said Ingle. 91裸聊视频淲e had sort of a moderate amount of success at that.91裸聊视频�

About a year into the wrestling gig, Ingle said he got back into shooting videos to promote his own career in the ring. Ingle soon found he was having more fun behind the camera than in the ring.

91裸聊视频淎nd it was far less painful,91裸聊视频� he said.

Another challenge with the wrestling career was that it didn91裸聊视频檛 pay well. He credited his longtime partner Joanna Pepin for supporting him through it all.

For one of his last matches, fans of Shotgun Stevens showed up ringside for a proper send off. The buzz in the audience prompted a last-minute change, in which Ingle suddenly found himself playing the 91裸聊视频済ood guy.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淗umbly speaking, it went kind of crazy because they were excited to see me,91裸聊视频� said Ingle.

While his time in the ring came to an end, Shotgun Stevens91裸聊视频� career continued, albeit briefly, on camera. Around the same time, Ingle said his wrestling videos caught the attention of City Furniture owner Sunny Dhaliwal and Integrity Roofing owner Josh Bickle, who wanted to see what Ingle could do for them. Shotgun returned to star in promotional videos for City Furniture.

91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 not going to profess that I knew what I was doing, but they were kind of fun videos, and the first one that we did for City Furniture, it got something like 20,000 views,91裸聊视频� said Ingle.

Word of mouth got around and Ingle quickly found himself in a new, full-time career. While his CV includes work for Trivago and Jack Daniels, 90 per cent of the work Ingle has done has been in Salmon Arm, with projects for local schools, Downtown Salmon Arm, Salmon Arm Economic Development Society and more, including a short documentary-style film on the , and the Celebrate Shuswap doc featuring local musicians.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 just been kind of a domino effect, from Josh and Sunny who are already pretty influential to Bill Laird and Salmon Arm Economic Development91裸聊视频� I kind of fell into a good group of people to help me through,91裸聊视频� said Ingle.

Grateful to be busy doing what he loves, Ingle says at some point, when time allows, he91裸聊视频檇 like to work on short films, action comedies that would be a 91裸聊视频渘ice balance between my wrestling world and my professional world.91裸聊视频� In the meantime, he takes some personal pleasure when he91裸聊视频檚 able to incorporate the style of an influential director or cinematographer, such as David Fincher or Roger Deakins, into his work.

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91裸聊视频淭here are occasions where I91裸聊视频檒l be filming a project and there91裸聊视频檚 a shot in there, just maybe one shot out of the whole shot list, where I91裸聊视频檒l be like, 91裸聊视频榦oh, Roger Deakins did something like this,91裸聊视频� and I91裸聊视频檒l try to do a little bit of what he did but it91裸聊视频檚 nowhere near the same level,91裸聊视频� laughed Ingle.

Asked if he91裸聊视频檚 still a fan of wrestling, Ingle said he prefers the older stuff now, the wrestlers he grew up with 91裸聊视频� and got him into editing.

91裸聊视频淚 think I91裸聊视频檓 sort of lucky in the sense that I91裸聊视频檝e been doing this since I was 14, at least on a smaller scale, so I got to make all those little mistakes and develop an eye for things that worked and things that don91裸聊视频檛,91裸聊视频� said Ingle.

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