The idea of this featured picture of the day is to show what we do everyday. Harmony and I have been really busy lately photographing sports teams and senior pictures and family portraits. The sports teams are going to occupy my every waking free moment(time I'm not working at the paper or preparing and teaching a class at Allegheny) over the next few weeks. We know our clients want to see their pictures as quickly as they can and my hope is to get them pictures before the end of Sept. This means little sleep an a lot of cropping and toning and designing. I like to get the sportsmates(or Memorymates) designed first because it sets the tone for the style of that particular team's pictures. The latest one I worked on was the MASH Cheers and here is an example of how they're going to look. Some girls have vertical pictures so a little more thought in design will have to go into that, but I've got a basic plan at least to move on from. I know we've shown a lot of these memory mates lately, but like I said--the purpose of this featured picture of the day is to show what we do--and this has been a big part of what I'm working on lately. SayerMotter Photographs and design by Richard Sayer.