The Image: Bittersweet Ending to Another Season

While this blog is primarily dedicated to showcasing the photos from interesting assignments and personal projects I shoot, I wanted to share some images from Dutchtown High School's winterguard season. The guard isn't just a group of kids I photographed for an assignment, but a group I spend a lot of time with as one of their instructors and choreographers. For the past three months we have spent many hours working on the winterguard show, which incorporated dance along with spinning rifle, sabre and flag. Only four out of the fifteen members on the winterguard had been on the guard longer than one season and three of them had never spun a flag, rifle, or sabre before December. They attended five different competitions around Louisiana, including two where they took first place in their class. We had many ups and downs, but I am extremely proud of what the group accomplished even though the outcome at Championships on Saturday was not exactly what we had hoped for. So here are some photos from another successful winterguard season that seems to have come and gone far too quickly.

(above) The guard practices leaps to the floor while spinning swing flag during rehearsal at the high school.

(above) The guard practices pointing their toes during a dance technique rehearsal.

(above) The guard practices the opening dance choreography to their show in a hallway outside the official warm-up area prior to performing. This was the first competition of the season.