Sports Portraits Part 1 – Girls Volleyball

It’s the end of the season and that means (in addition to the playoffs) it’s time for the newspapers to make their All-County and Player of the Year selections. Last year, my newspaper went for the old standard of getting everyone together and taking a “team photo” (ala LifeTouch). You can foresee, perhaps, the obvious problems with this scheme: it’s hard enough to get all the players from ONE school in a team pic much less 20+.

So this year we moved to a new system whereby all of the athletes come in to the office for a mug shot and the Player of the Year gets a larger, more stylized “portrait.”

Here are my first images from Girls Volleyball:

Tamara Leslie Gazette All-County Player of the Year before the county annual senior match at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD on November 23, 2010.