• Printing, saving, emailing photos—I try to use 4x6 (or close) proportions as much as possible so that if you want to print photos, they will print out near a standard photo/frame size  (you can modify for 3x5, 5x7, 8x10, etc.).   Okay, I started making some photos non-standard size/proportion because they just didn't look good at all without being cropped.  These are usually the very long (horizontally-long) photos you'll see when you click on the small "thumbnail" versions and get the full-sized photo.  If you need the original electronic version of the photo, uncropped, please email me and I'll send it to you.
  • Print from the full-size photos you'll see after you click the small "thumbnail" ones.
  • If you right-click a photo, you should get a pop-up box with various options including save picture, email picture, print picture, set as background (make it your screen background), etc., depending on which operating system you're running on your PC.  The only place this won't work is on the home page slide show photos just under the home page title/banner and main menu; however, these photos appear elsewhere in the site.
     
• Thumbnails—I use small thumbnail photos on most pages since the pages would load very slowly on your PCs if I used photos full-size (even though a page full of full-size photos would look better).
   
• Vertical photos—The few vertical photos may not show up quite full-size when you click their small versions.  However, if you see an orange button on the bottom right of the enlarged vertical picture when your mouse is over the picture, it will enlarge it to true full size if you click the orange button  (and it will have better resolution, too).
   
• Captions—Please tell me if in a caption, I misidentified a player or was completely inaccurate in describing a play!  I try to identify everyone I can possibly figure out in most photos (based on jersey #, size, whether it was offensive or defensive play, shoe style, mouth guard color, face mask color/style, arm or rib pads, etc.)
   
• Yes, you'll see my son showing up often in the photos; I'm definitely here to take pictures of my kid for our family photo album!  Many times last year he was in pictures with other teammates, so I didn't want to not use a good photo of the other players just because Brian was also in it.  So...you'll have to put up with seeing him a lot, but it also means that the defense will get its fair share of photos—which does not always happen in football coverage.
   
• I try to take a similar number of shots at all games.  However, I've noticed that if my husband can't come to help watch our younger son, or if I'm spending more time helping with first aid, water, etc., I don't get quite as many shots as in other games.  Since I have a coach's badge to allow me to be in the coach's box for photos, I'm also able to help there or on the field with other things that come up.
   
• I try to take all kinds of photos of all kinds of plays (plus plenty of non-game shots) so I'll be sure to get good photos of everyone; this worked out well last season.
   
• I sometimes include a few less-than-great (slightly fuzzy focus) photos because they still show some good action.
   
• Finally, I don't know how much I will be able to do this year, since I am starting to substitute teach this fall.  We'll see how limited my time becomes for web site work.

I hope you enjoy looking at these  pictures as much as I do. 

Thanks,
Lauri McIntosh