Tag: Watertown Senior High

08-20-16 WHS Video Club (2006)

So many friendly faces and fond memories. . . (read more)

By Scott Shephard

Once again, in the process of organizing my photo collection, I have come across a photo that hasn’t seen the light of day in a decade. I believe I took this one for the 2006 WHS yearbook and it shows several of my favorite people from that year – all members of the WHS Video Club.

I don’t look back much on my career as a teacher but when I see a photo like this, I am reminded of how lucky I am to have been involved in all of the many facets of being a high school teacher. I don’t miss the grading and the other administrative aspects, but I do miss getting to work with people like the great folks you see in this photo.

Canoon 5D 1/60s f/2.8 ISO400 24mm

04-06-14 Grand Champions (2002)

Mr. Peabody says, “Sherman, set the WABAC machine for 2002 . . . .”

Wow! When I went looking for something to post for “Flashback Sunday,” I wasn’t looking for this photo – I had totally forgotten that I had taken it. But once I found it, I couldn’t resist sharing it, partly because it comes from my very early days of “serious” digital photography but mostly because of all of the wonderful people in this group. I’m posting this to Facebook to see what kind of ID tagging can be done since I did not record the names of all those who are pictured. (I see one of my favorite WHS Video Club members ever, my very first volunteer portrait subject, two or three of my first paying portrait subjects. And somewhere hidden in this picture is a very prominent Watertown photographer.)

For the technically minded, this picture was taken with the 6 megapixel Canon D60, which was one of the first affordable DSLRs ever produced. It quickly became a dinosaur but I still own it because of so many fond memories captured with it – such as this team photo.

Canon D60 1/60s f/4.0 ISO400 28mm