This game is what I would call the start of my professional career covering high school sports.
While I had started taking photos of high school football and basketball games back when I was in high school for the student paper and yearbook. It wasn’t until 2000 ramped up and was on a regular path covering games.
I had started a test run in 1999 for a new website I founded called Illinois High School Football Weekly, but 2000 was the first year I was photographing and writing about games, hiring other people to cover games, and doing news and features stories. As well as running a message board for high school football. Oh, kids today have no idea about the message board frenzy that was high school sports in the 2000s.
This Friday night Chicago Catholic League matchup was the kickoff for my site IHSFW.com and is now getting a full view after years of film negatives sitting in a file cabinet.
This game along with the 6 final weeks of the 1999 football season have been digitized. Every last frame, good and bad. And are available to view and purchases copies of.
Things have come a long way in photography, including my skills. As a former rugby player in the 1990s and 2000s I know what it’s like to not have any photos of yourself in action. Clinging to those one or two photos of you slightly out of focus and in the background. So, my hope is some of you in your late 40s will have the joy of finding a photo of yourself you never thought you’d have. And have a chance to relive some of those glory days.
I know the price I’m asking isn’t exactly cheap, but if you think about how long these negatives have been stored safely and the amount of time and hardware it takes to scan these in, you’ll find it’s a good deal.
Any orders will have personal retouching done so that all dust and stuff is removed.
Please feel free to reach out. If this first set is successful, I have 4 more years of film I could scan in from across the state.
Not all my photos were the best. LOL.
