Sports & senior portraits · Nick Lathrop, Golden CO
Senior portraits and sideline photography across the Front Range. Sports, seniors, and recruiting, shot like the moment matters.
About me
Photographer based in Golden, Colorado. Sophomore at MSU Denver, double-majoring in aviation and aerospace engineering. I play volleyball, coach a club program, and fly a Cessna 172 out of Centennial Airport when the schedule lets me.
Photography started as something I did for my teammates. I'd take a camera to club tournaments and end up making more photos than playing minutes. The shots got passed around. Families first, then coaches, then schools. Now it's the work I do most, and the work I take most seriously.
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Field notes
Three things separate a photo that gets posted from a photo that just sits there: knowing where to stand, getting close enough to matter, and shipping fast enough that coaches and families actually use the work.
01Anticipation
I've made the same plays I'm photographing. That tells me which face is about to break, where the play is heading, and where to stand a half-second early so the shot is already composed when it lands.
02Access
On-field for warm-ups, in the locker room when programs invite me, on the bench between sets. No posed reenactments, no fake-hype shots. The photographs are what happened.
03Speed
Coaches post recruiting clips while the season's still hot. Seniors get their portraits before the next practice. The full edited set lands inside a week, every time.
Selected work
Six photographs from the most-loved posts. The full archive auto-syncs from Instagram hourly.
Booking
Every package starts with a conversation about what you actually need. These are starting points, not boxes. Pricing scales with travel, deliverables, and turnaround. Send me the details and I'll come back with a tailored quote.
2 hours on site
One game, edited and yours.
3–4 games across a season
A few games, told in photos.
Half-day session
Senior portraits and recruiting shots.
Travel I drive across the Front Range for most shoots. Golden, Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs are standard. For tournaments and out-of-state events, fly-in arrangements are easy. Tell me where.
Booking
Sport, level, dates, location. Even a rough sketch is fine. Text the number below — most replies go out within 48 hours.
Include in your first text
How this works
Name, sport, dates, location. Even one line is fine — I’ll come back with questions.
A quote, availability, and anything I need to lock the date. No portal logins, no forms — the whole conversation lives in your texts.
Edits land on the timeline we agreed to. Yours to share, print, send to coaches.
I read every text myself. No assistants, no agency, no scheduling bot. If you don’t hear back in 48 hours, something went wrong — text again. — Nick