I can't be for SURE... but it's my best guess.
A client of mine had strongly suggested that South Tama Girls Tennis Coach Steve Bearden check into our studio for his team pictures for the first time. Mr. Bearden listened and the wheels were set in motion.
Only one problem: The weather.
With the beautiful week we're having and suddenly drought conditions again... it's may be hard to remember that back in April we were still dealing with frigid temperatures, rain and even SNOW on a couple of occasions, but we were. Mother Nature caused a couple of postponements of our maiden voyage to the STC Tennis Courts, but on the 25th of April... I was given my chance to give a photographic forehand smash.
Now sports pictures are just that.... sports pics. It's our quick stuff... our assembly line down-n-dirty run-'em-thru images. Even with that in mind... I got the distinct impression from the Trojan ladies that what we were doing was somehow different that what they were used to, and whatever that was I wasn't about to apologize.
So then, what does all this STC tennis talk have to do with a senior blog? Maybe nothing, but maybe it does?
One after another, several of the JUNIORS that were in that team shot that day have lined up for our SENIOR services just a couple of months later. Sure... a couple may have come our way without our performance in late April, but I know a few senior sessions are direct spin offs from that day.
The first of what i count as five members on the squad to call and line up their sessions was Tori Appelgate. Mama Laurie mentioned the tennis thing when she booked the appointment and the fruit from our previous labor was starting to, well... come to fruition. Tori's mom runs Laurie's Hair Affair in Toledo (shameless plug) and needed a Monday since most hairstylists have Monday's off. (So do most photographers... but not THIS guy during the busy season!). So a Monday it was.. and our senior with amazing hair showed up curly... and not surprisingly, transformed quickly to straight.
We covered all our bases that day... not only with the epic hair... not only with tennis... but the ladies asked for... and got... my entire life story. There was also a blast from the past as Laurie's sweeter-than-sweet 1986 Chevy Camero made an appearance. And I found out that despite beauty and athletic ability... Miss Tori is a future Bio Medical Engineering student at the University of Iowa. (Last I checked... they don't let dummies into that program)
We finished the day, as we often do, with our sports collage. Besides tennis... Tori will be a hitter on Coach Bradley's volleyball team here in a few weeks, and she just completed a summer full or roaming right field for the Trojan softball squad.... But, in the end... it was tennis that she told me that she loved the most... that needed to be the focus. So what had begun on April 25 had come full circle and we couldn't be happier about that.
Special thanks to Sandra Svacina for suggesting it. Coach Bearden for listening and agreeing and the slew of this year's seniors for taking it to another level by trusting us with your images, both on and off the court.
Game. Set. Match.
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