Awhile back I posted a picture of Jalen that was very similar to this. he wore a hat, at shorter hair and was dressed in more athletic type apparel. When we did a second shoot the other day(after his hair grew out a bit) it was to get more formal pictures, but I wanted to try the same shot with a shirt and tie. Think this is more what I was thinking from the beginning, a formal casual shot. I keep thinking a senior picture needs to be somewhat formal, but not stuffy, so I was happy that Jalen and his mom and dad were great in trying to help come up with this shot, including Jalen's dad having to stop what he was doing in order to run down with a soccer ball to where we were shooting! Its great when people are excited about the potential of a photograph--I know I get excited about it and just hope I can pull it off. We even found graffiti that that complimented Jalen's shirt! SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer.