Congratulations to Olivia Peña of Thunder Volleyball!

Jackson Sports Academy and the YStudio Photography team would like to congratulate recent high school graduate and Thunder Volleyball 18-1 Storm's Olivia Pena! Olivia who has been playing club ball since she was eight. Olivia will be attending Notre Dame DeNamur in the fall with partial academic and athletic
...scholarships.

Way to go OLIVIA!!!!!!!!!

Sports Photography with a Twist!

What do you think about when someone says Sports Photography? Do you envision a kid in his baseball uniform posing with his bat over his shoulder? Or do you think automatically about the same old stand up and say cheese in your face type of shot? Although there is NOTHING wrong with this and realistically those are necessary for a team, but, why not play a little?

What I like to do is speak with the coaches, visit the teams practices, learn about what makes THIS team unique, what get's them motivated and learn about their mission and themes. We had the opportunity to work with a fabulous Director, Vickey Williams of the Thunder Volleyball Club a few months back and it was such a GREAT experience!

Vickey had contacted me after seeing the work YStudio was doing for our wedding couples and portraits. She loved and raved about the work we do, our unique approach and she asked us to come and photograph her club. She was awesome and pretty much gave us carte blanche. Although I have to admit, we had no idea what to expect or how we were going to organize a photo session (on-location at the city of Benicia's beach front), with over 60 people!

I have to say that after session, hubby and I took a deep breath, packed up got in the car and said whewwwwwwwwwww.....it was a bit of a task since it was a bit nippy and windy, but we did it and those gals were FABULOUS!! YStudio would like to thank the Thunder Volley Ball Club of Solano County...we just LOVE 'em and we look forward to MORE Sports and Live Action Portraiture!

GO TEAM!!!!!