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High School Football

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It's time for High School football again. After 2 weeks of tracking down about 300 players and 10+ teams, we're almost done putting the football tab together (although I'm finished with taking pictures). Here's a sneak peek of what will be in next week's News & Messenger High School football preview for Prince William County. Woodbridge Senior High School looks to advance to the playoffs for the 8th consecutive year. The cover story is about the "Secret of Their Success". I tried to work with a concept of a magic or "secret" playbook...etc. Woodbridge HC, Kevin Smith, who admitted during the shoot he sometimes thinks up plays in the coaches room and draws them up on the dry-erase board. So we threw this together as a last-second shot. When I heard him say this, I thought of Keith Barraclough's "Blackboard" portraits ( see here ). I'm always thinking of what other photographers have done and try to spin it in m...