The tragic accident in Saskatchewan that claimed the life of 15 people when a tractor-trailer hit the Humboldt Broncos team bus struck close to home for local photographer, Heather Douglas. Both of her kids play hockey and she takes the team photos for the local hockey teams. She posted on her Facebook page that the accident “has left me reeling and needing to do something.”
That something is a photo session on April 12. Hockey players of all ages are invited to come to the lower viewing area at the Don Lough Arena at 4:00 p.m. in partial equipment—helmet, neck guard, shoulder pads and jersey—and Heather will take a photo in the style pictured above and will email it to them.
In exchange for the photo, she asks that they go to one of the online fundraising sites set up for the Humboldt families and make a donation in whatever amount they can. She won’t be taking any money at the photo session.
Douglas says she’ll keep taking photos that night for as long as it takes to get through everyone who wants one.
“It’s what I can do,” Douglas told Doppler while fighting back tears. “Photography is my life and I look at the pictures of these kids and that’s what’s left. And I think, okay, we need to catch our children and I don’t want anybody to not have that.”
UPDATE April 12: See photos from around Huntsville on Jersey Day, in tribute to the Humboldt Broncos, here: Huntsville shows support for the Humboldt Broncos community on Jersey Day
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Very generous Heather