RACECAPTURE.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT US

It takes three groups of people to make a race day worth remembering. The athletes who trained for it, the creators who capture it, and the organizers who put the whole thing on.

We built RaceCapture for all three. One place where the media from your event gets published fast, athletes find themselves in seconds, and the people behind the camera get looked after.

We started as race photographers ourselves, so we built the thing we always wished existed.

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Veteran-Owned Founded In Ottawa Canadian Owned Supporting Community Creators

Sean Menezes

Founder · Canadian Armed Forces Veteran · Athlete

RaceCapture started with Sean — a decade in the Canadian Armed Forces, and most of that decade spent racing. Triathlons, road races, HYROX, backyard ultras.

He knows both sides of the finish line: the months of training nobody sees, and the feeling of finally crossing it. When he started bringing a camera to these events, it was to give other athletes what he'd always wanted from his own races — media that actually matched the effort.

What he found was that the hard part wasn't the shooting. It was everything after: getting the work out fast, getting paid fairly, and giving organizers something they could hand their athletes with pride. So that's what RaceCapture was built to solve.

When he's not working on it, he's training, racing, or out on the trails with his dog Riley.

WHY THIS MATTERS TO US

Somebody out there is racing a year after being told they might not run again. Somebody got up at 4:30 all winter. Somebody is fifty-eight and doing their first one. Somebody's kids are watching from behind the barrier. You can't tell any of that by looking — which is exactly why every athlete on course deserves to be shot like the day means everything. For someone out there, it does.

You don't get race day back. You should get to keep it.

And behind every one of those photos is someone who was out there just as long as the athletes were. Creators shoot from before sunrise to the last finisher, then go home and spend their evening culling, uploading, chasing payments and answering "did you get one of me?" The shooting is the part they love. Everything after it is the part that burns them out.

Organizers are caught in the middle. They want their participants to walk away with media worth keeping, but coordinating photographers, hosting galleries and fielding the questions afterward is a job nobody has time for on race weekend.

RaceCapture exists to take that weight off all three. Creators upload and get on with their day. Athletes find themselves with a selfie, usually before they've left the venue. Organizers get an event page and coverage without carrying the cost or the coordination. Nobody's best day sits unseen on a hard drive.

WHO WE ARE

We started in Ottawa and we're built for wherever races happen. Behind RaceCapture is a team and a community of creators — photographers, videographers, editors, coaches and athletes. Most of us met at a start line somewhere.

The community creators publishing on RaceCapture aren't staff and don't work for us. They're independent, they keep their own name on their work, and they bring their own eye to the events they know best. They're the reason there's a photo of you at all, and everything we build is meant to make their race day easier and their work go further.

If you shoot races, we'd love to have you here — wherever you shoot them. If you organize them, we'd love your athletes to find their photos before they've even left the venue. And if you race, we hope you never have to go looking for your photos again.

WHO WE'RE HERE FOR

One platform, three groups of people who all want the same thing — the moment, captured properly.

For Athletes

Your race, found with a selfie or a bib number, usually the same day. Every angle of you across the course — ready to share the moment you get home, and in full resolution for the wall.

For Creators

Photographers, videographers and drone pilots: publish under your own name, keep your event relationships, and get paid for the work. We handle the delivery so you can focus on the shot.

For Organizers

Give your participants media they'll actually keep, without carrying the cost or the coordination. Your event, your creators, your athletes celebrating the finish they earned.

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