We all know that this is a touchy subject for all of us parents out there. And as a company that takes pictures at sporting events and posts them online for parents to purchase, why would be talking about this subject? Well, the truth is, we want the parents of their athletes to understand our process and to let them know they can always contact us if they have questions or comments. It is pretty simple to do nowadays!!!

Some parents, that we talk to at events, never question the fact that their child’s picture will be on the internet for others to see and others ask us if the gallery will be password protected. Well, we have rules in place here at GameActionShots in regards to this and we are pretty strict with following them. But we also allow the league to make a decision should they want to keep the galleries unprotected for the convenience of the parents/family member access.

Before we just show up at games to take pictures, oh wait, we don’t do that, sorry!!! We always contact the league first and we never just show up at games…another rule we have here. The reason why we do this is to first, seek the league’s permission to be on the field and yes we know that we don’t have to do this because it is public property, and second, so that they know who we are and what we are doing there. We also don’t go up and down the sidelines handing out business cards…but that is another subject that we will discuss later.

We actually request to attend a board meeting so that we can explain our process to everyone and to answer questions should they have any. We also inform them of our rules when it comes to securing the galleries, which we have several ways of doing this by the way and then we allow them to make the final decision on how they want to proceed.

Our number one goal is the safety of our children. When you see someone taking pictures at your game, do you know who that person is? We certainly understand that people will get carried away with the overall notion that someone is actually outside taking pictures at an event for goodness sake and this topic can go either way, but we would like to know your opinion.

Thank you everyone for your support and we look forward to hearing your opinion!!

GameActionShots Team