Below is a post of a photography session I was fortunate enough to be asked to do, a basketball game of a Catoctin High School basketball player, Renee. Her father, Keith, a Catoctin alumni has taken on the task of keeping up the family scrapbooks with his children's athletic achievements inside. Sometimes he has taken the photos himself, but this time, he had decided to hire me to capture this moment in the life of his daughter.
Being a former Catoctin Cougar myself, I happily accepted the invitation to photograph Renee.It was fun for me to head back to the old high school, run into a few people I know and see how the next generation of my classmates is coming along.
What I really found so amazing, was the foresight that Keith had to have Renee's game professionally documented. If you are the same as me, your childhood photo album has a TON of photos of you in your first years, maybe a few in your tweens and next to none in your teen years. Is it because we are not so cute or amazing anymore? I don't think so. We just get so wrapped up in the busy-ness of our lives and now, our teens lives, that it rolls by and we don't think about capturing it.
I'm not sure how Renee felt about being the focus of my attention and lens that day. But I do hope that when she sees these photos again in her future she feels happy. Happy to remember how much fun she had, how talented she was and how much her father loved her.
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