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Election Day.....

I'm a hell of an ad agency when I want to be. My son's class all had to run for class mayor this Monday and due to the fact that the whole family was sick for all of last week we didn't know about it until the day before. So I whipped this out in two hours for his campaign the night before. Other kids were making promises of candy and amusement park rides, which I thought rather fitting being the political climate of our day and promises of free, free, free from the government but less freedom in the end. So we came up with a campaign that can't win but looked really damn cool and spoke the truth which can't be said about any real world politicians. I say, be honest, be right, be forward and write in Edmond for class mayor. He's the real maverick.

Two Rings Bind Them: Amy and Mitchell!

Amy and Mitchell's wedding was a fun one. Both Amy and Mitchell were very fun loving. Their rehearsal was held at Pluckers on Halloween night. A good amount of their friends dressed up for the event as well and they stayed until 2 a.m. singing karaoke.

The wedding was at Kindred Oaks up near Goergetown, a nice place overlooking a small lake. After a beautiful ceremony, the bride and groom danced and visited with family until their escape in a big blue classic car.







Weird. This will be the first wedding I've been to that the brides name was carved into a pumpkin.

Me Oh My, Mercy Me!

I helped out running TV camera at church today for a Mercy Me concert. We go to a big church in Austin so there are actually four TV cameras, a director, a graphics person, a iris person and a whole pile of other people who do audio and lights who I don't know. I also abused the 'crew credentials' and walked up to the stage for some fun pictures with my still cameras during the show. I had quite a pounding headache but got a few images in a very short period of time. The opening act was Bebo Norman and he's the first couple of pictures. I'd never heard of him before. He was kind of dull. Mercy Me put on a good show though.

Engage: Katherine and Ed!

Katherine brought ginger bread cookies. Tasty soft ones. Katherine is a library science student and claims that she cooks when she is stressed. Gosh if all of us could just cook when we are stressed instead of eat. The world would be filled with cookies and pies stacked to the top of every roof, in every street and it would worldwide over population of pastries. It would destroy the fabric of reality as we know it so it is good that only Katherine was the stress baker and the rest of us were happy to digest her little ginger bread men.

Now, not to tear you too far away from cookies but Ed, a non-cookie making programmer guy, was also there to complete the couple and provide us with entertainment as he tried to find the patterns in the way my brain works. I don't know if he succeeded. The shoot was a lot of fun with Ed trying to figure out the randomness that makes me get up in the morning. From the limited amount of programming and math that I studied in college, I am pretty sure that there is an algorithm to recreating the process it takes to be me. Ed may be reverse engineering me as we speak. But beyond all of that the pictures looked nice.

Two Rings Bind Them: Angela and Corey!

Angela and Corey had their wedding at the Inn At the Wild Rose Hall in South Austin. They lived in the Dallas area and had decided some time ago that they wanted to eventually move to Austin and the first step was to have their wedding here. I've heard stories about Dallas and kind of understand why people would want to move. I looked at houses up there when I was shopping Texas for a place to live and got kind of a strange vibe upon doing that. Austin is for me too.








This is Angela and Corey with Johnny Cash. Very unusual.

Engage! Marni and Darrell!

I didn't know who Megan Fox was. I suppose I was among a small number of guys who did not know who she was. I guess she's the hot new thing? I found out she was in the Transformers though I only found out about a couple of weeks ago. I think Marni looks a little like her though a lot classier.

We had a good time at the capital then down to the Amtrak Station where we were lucky enough to have a freight train steam passed us which created a fabulous effect after the sun set the with blur of the train behind Darrell and Marni. I love what I do!




This one really looks like a frame of a classic B&W movie. I love the feel of this.