One of the cool things that has happened to me as a photographer is meeting good people. I photographed all of Saegertown sports last year and this gave me a chance to get to know some young people a little more than just by photographing them from the sidelines for the newspaper. To me I was honored when so many of the athletes have come up to me and said they want me to make their senior portraits. They even come up and say hello at games that I'm covering( a few times groups of them even began chanting my name when they saw me---which probably turned my face pretty red and made me squirm around a little in my little corner on the sideline.) So when I get honored by these young people I hope to make photographs for them that live up to their expectations. I am constantly trying to learn new things to make their pictures better. I tried some things with Hunter, who is an excellent baseball player and Cross Country athlete(I had to tell him my story about trying Cross Country, I told him I really didn't enjoy throwing up enough to stick with that sport!)I hope they like them and understand that traditional senior portraiture is good, but we can mix in many other things in hopes of making the entire experience a good one. Thankfully most of the time they at least humor me and say they had fun making the pictures. SayerMotter Photographs by Richard Sayer