Looking for some extra customers this fall?

As football season gets ready to kick off, thought I'd throw out this thought:

Don't ignore a potential group of customers for your photos this fall!

Who else besides the quarterback's mom might want to buy a copy of the photo

below? How about the referee? Most officials associations have websites with

email addresses, and they all have pockets for your card when you chat them up

before they start working the game. (I don't recommend chatting up your website

during play or even during timeouts, however.)

I'm both a sports photographer and an official, and I can tell you a good action

shot of an umpire, linesman or referee in action would be very appreciated.<div></div>

I've sold my share of action shots to refs, primarily hockey. I even had one tourney where the three refs working the games had a pre-faceoff ritual of tapping crests with whistles, then a three man helmet bump.

I got shots of each pregame group head bump focusing on a different official each time. All three bought 5x7's on site, and two ordered 8x10's later.

That's a great idea. Never thought much about doing that before now.

'Course the moms and dads want everything their kid is remotely in, even the back of the

head, feet cut off, on the ground, on the bench....

Hi Ron,

Only in hockey do you get a three official head bump. lolol

Mark