SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

So I got a call from a friend and newspaper photo editor to cover the high school season opener (aka Week 0) game between the North Shore Mustangs and the Katy Tigers at Rhodes Stadium in Katy last night. I don’t shoot as much sports as I used to given the fact that my primary work isn’t newspaper stuff, but if I was going to shoot any high school games this year, this was a good one. Texas high school football is legend and this rivalry would prove to be as good as I had hoped. North Shore is in a lower income, eastern Houston neighborhood, with a primarily minority/blue-collar base whereas Katy is in a middle to upper class, primarily white neighborhood. This rivalry means more when you are made aware of the fact that Katy has many state titles under its belt including 2007 and last year, 2008, however last year North Shore was one of Katy’s few losses of last season.

Rhodes Stadium in Katy is one of the nicest high school facilities around (and we have plenty in Houston…Berry Center anyone?) and a little over 14,000 people came out to see this game. That is practically the attendance numbers you would see at many smaller collegiate level football games. To put it in perspective, the catered Italian food in the press box was better than most press box meals I’ve had the pleasure of tasting over the years.

There was a lot going on before the game and since I showed up with plenty of time before the actual game started I tried to shoot some featury stuff. Lots of nice color to play off of.

After I had edited and transmitted my images to the newspaper, I played a bit with a few of the images. I edited a set of diptychs that I put together called “Saturday Night Lights”. The diptych series appears in the gallery below, followed by the single images from the game.

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