10 August 2021 | parkcitiespeople.com
Community PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES: ONE JOURNALIST’S FAVORITE PICS
WORDS AND IMAGES BY CHRIS MCGATHEY
Editor’s note: Chris McGathey has been shooting photographs for People Newspapers for 13 years, more than a quarter of the company’s history.
As I sat in on a rehearsal in 2016, one day before the opening of the Highland Park High theater department production of Grease, I could tell by the impressive stage props and wardrobe they would knock it out of the park.
A student ushers in graduating seniors as High Park High School commencement exercises began in 2019.
A bulldog goes wading during Doggie Splash Day at the Holmes Aquatic Center in 2018. The annual event has become a hit with pooches, pet owners, and photographers alike.
While I loved capturing a tag at second base during a 2015 game with Dallas Jesuit at the home of the Grand Prairie Air Hogs, the throwback jerseys worn by the Scots made this a favorite.
Quarterback John Stephen Jones celebrates a state title with family including grandfather Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Little did we know that 2016 victory would begin an impressive three-state title run for the Scots.
Kacie Hunt, the daughter of FC Dallas and Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, was making her mark in soccer when I took this portrait of her beside her backyard practice goal in 2015.
Of all my Park Cities Fourth of July Parade photos, I always come back to Payton Camp promoting Banditos Mexican Cantina in 2012.
Mike Crum [photographed in 2011] watched Marty McFly cruise the streets of Hill Valley in Back to the Future and got hooked. The former Highland Park High student became a professional skateboarder at 16 and went on to co-own Overground Project, a private skateboard park in South Dallas.
I first thought this 2014 photo of a bagpiper welcoming Highland Park ISD elementary students on the first day of school was blown out by the sunrise. But over time I have grown to love it.
