I recently shoot a cover and feature spread for ESPN Gridiron (ESPN Rise high school football special) of the Oaks Christian football team which included the children of Joe Montana (Nick Montana) Will Smith (Trey Smith) and Hockey Legend Wayne Gretzky (Trevor Gretzky) It also had high school super star Malcolm Jones. The photo editor and I had a lot of back and fourth pre planning for this shoot, we wanted to put the kids in a different "fun" setting outside of the football field. So we decided a BBQ/lake scenerio would be a good call!

About two weeks after the first set of basketball portraits another tournament came up, this time it was at USC with a lot less players. Some of them I knew from the last time I took pictures of them which was cool. They opened up a lot more specially after I emailed them some of their last shots. This shoot I had three people helping me move stuff around which was nice because we had to move the set up twice. We had everything in place and we were waiting for the first player to show up when my arch nemesis the "event staff" showed up.