Friday night I took a nice 65 mile road trip to shoot a high school football game and before the game the AD and one of our senior players asked me if I would mind helping a new photographer. The "new photographer" is the youngest brother of one of our senior linebackers. I was happy to help get a new sports photographer started out very young and he was so excited to be on the sidelines taking his own photos of big bro 🙂 I warned him we had to stay alert to danger and I did have to move him quickly in the third quarter when a running back and defender crashed the lines at us, he loved that adventure! I look forward to watching him progress at future events, he reminds me of some of the great kids I coached in youth soccer when my daughter was his age.
I didn't realize his mom caught a photo of us together so that is my favorite game photo that I didn't take, my sister saw it and called it me and mini-me 😂 His mother sometimes teaches a course for my department at the university and it will be fun to see how her two younger sons turn out in sports since their grandfather was a pro soccer player from Ireland.
I think the photo of us together was probably shot with a camera phone, I used a 1DX III to capture the young sports photographer. The lesson is, don't every overlook the opportunity to get a young person interested in photography because it will be a very nice experience for both of you!
Rodger
