Team Pictures

Teammates. The word implies membership, but there is often something more. There is a shared experience. Often hardships as well as success. At it's highest, it indicates a bonding, a tie not easily broken. Each teammate a unique but integral part of a greater whole. The team becomes part of each member's own identity.

Bonds like those developed on athletic teams during the most challenging years of life, as youth metamorphasises into adult, can last a lifetime.

I think of my older brother's best friends, the ones he has been able to count on when the chips are down, have been the high school teammates. The guys who tasted victory and endured defeat together, are still there for each other, 40 years later.

Teammates. It's a relationship. Sometimes, for a lifetime.

I just finished producing a custom "team picture" project for the First Baptist Academy Girls High School Basketball Team. I invite you to take a look at how we combined a team picture with action shots into one piece, that will hold memories together for a lifetime. Choose the "Team Pix" button on the menu bar at naplespix.com to see how they came out.

If you would like to honor your team with something special, email me and we can talk about your ideas, and see if we can make them happen.

And please remember to email me for any of your photographic needs. If I may say, we are quite versatile and creative. We not only shoot sports, but can help with personal, family, event, and commercial photography as well.

Thanks,

Mike

Lacrosse: Golden Gate Titans at Gulf Coast Sharks

I was invited to take pictures of Tuesday's Lacrosse match between Gulf Coast High and Golden Gate (yes, you can ask me to shoot your favorite school or club teams, and I will try to accommodate!) I was happy to come, in part because I had not only never shot pictures of Lacrosse before, I had never even seen a game. My knowledge was limited to the Lacrosse stick or racket kids play with.

It's actually a very exciting, fast moving, hard-hitting sport, that to my eye melds soccer with hockey. I was amazed to learn Lacrosse is the oldest team sport in North America, with a variation played by Native Americans, perhaps as far back as 1100.

In this match, Gulf Coast dominated throughout, but not surprisingly, because their program is older and more seasoned that Golden Gates'. I was also told that the Barron Collier team may be the best in the county, since they have been in operation the longest. I think a Cougar - Shark match would be a game to see for anyone who hasn't yet watched Lacrosse. You might become a fan.

Please take a look at the new Lacrosse Gallery on Naplespix.com!

Sunshine Athletic Conference Girls Middle School Division Championship: FBA vs. St. Anne's

Valentine's Day held not so much a massacre, but a hard fought battle, that in the end could have gone either way, but the roses went to the ladies of First Baptist Academy, as the 7th grade middle school Basketball team won it's Sunshine Athletic Conference division championship against St. Anne's.

Early on it seemed to be St. Anne's game to lose, as they took charge through the first quarter and most of the first half. FBA came back late in the second though, to close the gap to two points at the half. The the third was a scrappy battle , reminiscent of a Celtics-Lakers battle. In the fourth FBA gained a lead, but it began slip away just minutes from the close. A couple of clutch field goals and free throws finally sealed the win for the Lions, second championship in two years.

Our picture gallery includes action shots, and shots of the winning team members holding the trophy, and cutting down the net.