Day 56 (Tue., August 2)

West Texas football! It's a religion out here. I headed out and did a short tour driving just 45 round-trip miles to two schools. There were fans at the practices. Like the fans that are all swarming over the different NFL camps. It's amazing. Everyone's so serious right now. I guess that's what it takes to win championships.

Football tour seems like a fun thing for a photographer. It's a lot of work in very little time. The Standard-Times has a reputation of shooting a mug shot of every high school varsity player in the area. So, that was my job today. I headed out there and in less than 20 minutes, I had to shoot mugs of all the players as well as a team photo.

In Los Angeles I worked for the Daily News, which has a reputation of covering the local high schools pretty well. That newspaper