We have a couple Senior portrait sessions scheduled this weekend.  We will be doing both at Loose Park, a beautiful park near the Country Club Plaza.  Like most areas, the park was hit by the drought and has lost some of it's color and beauty but there is plenty of photo opportunities there and I'm excited about getting to shoot at a new place. 

JD called me yesterday to tell me about how he's been working with his head coach on his slider.  He told me he has learned how to throw a "real" slider.  He has always thrown his curve and slider with a knuckle on the ball.  He says the way he throws it now, it bites much harder, he has more velocity on it and it has late break.  He said the Coach loved it and called it "filthy".  JD said he was able to throw it for strikes right from the start and coach said to keep working on it and he'll have something special come Spring. 

He has been "enjoying" the 6am workouts that started this week now that official scrimmages and practices have ended.  They'll do conditioning and strength training 4 days per week throughout the fall and winter as they prepare for the 2013 baseball campaign.  It can't get here soon enough for JD, and us.