BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Getting access to Blue Bayou Waterpark for a high school football photo shoot took Keith Joseph nearly a week of persistence \u2014 but the results reached hundreds of thousands of people on ESPN\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n
Joseph is the photographer behind a viral set of photos featuring the Glen Oaks High School football team taken at Blue Bayou Waterpark.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took me a good week to get access to Blue Bayou,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cI had a friend that had a manager; I had to get the manager to send me an email. The owner replied first; another two days of trying again, and then we got access.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reaction to going viral<\/p>\n
When the photos were picked up by ESPN, Joseph said the response caught him off guard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really didn\u2019t know what to say; I was just shocked,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cI knew it was going to like, be popular, but I didn\u2019t think it was going to be this big. I almost cried, really. It\u2019s just something that came out of nowhere for real.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shoots at the football field, the zoo and Top Golf<\/p>\n
The Blue Bayou session is one of several unconventional locations Joseph has used for high school sports photography. He has shot at a football field, a zoo, and Top Golf, among other locations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to be different,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cLike last year I was still playing football, and everyone was still doing theirs at their school, and I was just like, it would be cool to go around to different places.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next<\/p>\n
Joseph plans to attend the University of Louisiana this year and hopes to continue shooting sports and other events. He credits his parents for making his work possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom and dad actually both are just working hard; they\u2019ve been providing for me my whole life, really. Without them, I wouldn\u2019t even be in the camera business,\u201d Joseph said.<\/p>\n
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