Scott Watson must be very good.
At least on the day of his senior session he was anyway.
As I've mentioned several times, it's usually the case that the senior... and the senior mom is the party of two that I normally deal with in most sessions.
Oh sure... there's additional party-goers sometimes, and in Scott's case... we had two more female guests.
The first one didn't surprise me at all. Through having the privilege of being East Marshall's prom and homecoming photographer, I was aware that Scott's sweetheart might be in attendance. Miss Amy Atcher has been on Mr. Watson's arm for quite some time now, and sure enough, her sassy attitude made a repeat appearance (Stewart Photography 2013 Alumna) to keep me us all on our toes for several hours.
In addition, not only did we have Mama Kelly in attendance, but Grandma Peggy was also there... completing the Scott Support System. Or maybe it was the Torture Triumvirate? You'd have to ask Scott to know for sure!
Either way, it was a fitting morning for a senior that had some similar characteristics to many of the graduates that I see (love of his high school... and favorite future university) but he also had something very unique about him.
I see lots of future educators, accountants, engineers and those that are entering some sector of the medical field among many other popular tracts of study.
But Scott has a dream that I don't hear that often.
He wants to be a meteorologist.
From what I could gather, I don't think he longs to be the next Ed Wilson or John McLaughlin. Rather he's more interested in the science and chasing of storms.
I just calls those types of people a little off their rocker... but hey... they gotta come from somewhere, right?
So it wouldn't have been right if we would have had the perfect weather day of 70 degrees and sunny for our weather aficionado. No... on Scott's day... a THICK fog had set in (check out image number two in this blog... it was quite obvious early on). Some area schools even went two-hour delay.
Team Watson would not be delayed, however... so we were off and running. Being the huge Hawkeye fan that I am... I'll even pretend that the "Cyclone Warning" t-shirt that Scott was wearing had more to do with weather than it did with supporting Jamie Pollard's athletic department in Ames. Nevertheless, being the pro that I am, I swallowed hard and showed my ability to create solid images that are against my religion.
;)
One thing that we could agree on was the donning on the Purple and Gold of East Marshall. Scott has toughed out some rough sledding for EM's football and basketball programs for the past four seasons. He's also took part in helping the NICL West Track Conference Champions last spring. All of that running was documented in the form of another of our trademark sports composites.
Finally, even though Scott and his entourage didn't know it at the time when they booked... they became a part of an interesting and totally random footnote in studio history by ending up in the slot they chose. I'll just call it a Hopper Sandwich.
Close followers of our blog will note that we just chronicled one Emily Hopper from South Tama County High School last week. And for those that pay close attention to my ramblings here, the NEXT blog after Mr. Watson, will be Morgan Hopper from West Marshall No relation... and I don't even think the young ladies are even familiar with each other. Useless and trivial information? No doubt about that. But I thought it was a interesting co-inky-dink nonetheless.
Surviving the session with the three most important women in his life and being surrounded by Hoppers? Well done, my dear Watson. Well done.
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