The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 24,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals
Where did the views come from: That’s 114 countries in all!
Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & The United Kingdom were not far behind.
I shared another early Sunday morning on May 15, 2012 with these two fine people. We visited the Botanical Gardens in Corpus Christi, Texas. Here is a quick snapshot of that session. Sunset pictures will be posted later this evening… gotta wait for that star to set! Please note: These images are straight out of camera with no photo retouching.
a butterfly landed on Vanessa as I was setting up lights…
I’m excited to announce the marriage of two wonderful people Vanessa and Demetrio. They’ll be tying the proverbial KNOT on June 9, 2012 in Corpus Christi, Texas! Congratulations to both of them! Here is their wedding announcement in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Click the following link to download the pdf file:
Vanessa and Demetrio Engagement Announcement in Caller-Times on Sunday, April 22, 2012.
OR click here to visit the Caller-Times post online.
From an earlier post ….
I shared an early Sunday morning recently with these two fine people where Demetrio first played “dentist,” and then Vanessa took her turn playing “doctor.” Although both of these wonderful individual’s wear those respective hats as day jobs, they wanted to play with this theme for the first of our engagement sessions.
The Teaser for Imagine Dragons’ upcoming official music video for “It’s Time” was released today on youtube. There is going to be an Exclusive all-day premiere on MTV, Tuesday, April 17.The full EP “Continued Silence” can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/x9AbwY
Here is the song performed live.
Unfortunately I did NOT shoot this video, (one day….). I did however get to meet the band in Austin, Texas at SXSW 2012 at their Woodie Award Show. Here are some of those shots from their Woodie Awards performance.
Yesterday I spent April Fools Day with one of my “life” clients – I’ve been with them from their wedding date, Elyana’s first pictures, along with their first family portrait, Elyana’s first Easter pics, and now this session. It’s been an honor to see their family grow, and I’m thankful to be part of it, to document it, and to grow with them. 
I think the most fun I had was when I was wondering. I made the most interesting discoveries. Here is Rustic. Learn more about them on their official SXSW page here. You can also listen to their track Living the World of Fallacy. They jam hard.
3 Bands, 6 cities, 1 train, and thousands of miles of track … all culminated in Austin, Texas for the World Premiere… here’s what I saw, including the magnetic Jade Castrinos!!!!
Former Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore had a sit down with tech innovator Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook fame among other tech/online ventures. Al Gore believes that “Democracy has been hacked,” and he also called for an “Occupy Democracy” movement. You can read more about it here at an article from the Washington Post. Then I attended the World Premiere of 21 Jump Street. IT WAS AMAZING! There is a huge twist that yo’re going to love. It was directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, with screenplay by Michael Bacall. I’m not going to go into a review here other than say that it was entertaining from top to bottom and had really great rhythm throughout the entire film. The entire cast had memorable lines and impeccable delivery including Rob Riggle, Ice Cube, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Dave Franco. I will say that I’ve a newfound respect for Jonah Hill, who during the Q&A was extremely witty and funny. It is a MUST SEE FILM! Oh and on a random note, last night I watched the film “Iron Sky,” and in the seat next to me was Doug Benson… check out his IMDB here.
I’m covering B-roll for SXSW 2012 – it’s my second year in a row, and I’m thankful to be asked back this go round. Yesterday was my first day out and I covered everything from interactive panels to the red carpet. I had the opportunity to see the US Premiere of “Killer Joe,” which I think is going to be a very polarizing film – much like “Lolita” was considered a graphic novel. Present at the premiere was Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Matthew McConaughey, DP Caleb Deschanel, writer Tracy Letts, and through pre-recorded message William Friedlink – director of “The Exorcist,” although currently in Vienna, Austria he joined the Q&A by telephone. Richard Linklater was also in attendance at the US premiere at the Paramount in Austin, Tx.
Earlier in the day, Rainn Wilson promoted his book, “SoulPancake.” Afterwards he did a book signing. I had the opportunity to learn from a first hand source of the daughter of the late and great George Carlin, Kelly Carlin. She shared her personal life’s stories mixing wonderful and personal anecdotes with clips illustrating George Carlin’s illustrious career. NOTE: In my honest opinion, George Carlin is the greatest comedian of all time, and she’s no slouch either. Onto another funny man, Greg Proop from the television show “Whose Line is it Anyways.” This man is as colorful and off the wall as they come. During the Q&A session, one man introduced himself as Jesse, to which Greg responded without missing a beat, “I”m sorry about your girl…” and then continued to sing the opening lines from the famous song “Jesse’s Girl.” The remaining photos are random, self explanatory pics, all but one the man with a “funny” face is advertising for a film being shown at SX called “Beauty is Embarrassing.” I’ve added that to the long list of to-dos…
I shared an early Sunday morning recently with these two fine people where Demetrio first played “dentist,” and then Vanessa took her turn playing “doctor.” Although both of these wonderful individual’s wear those respective hats as day jobs, they wanted to play with this theme for the first of our engagement sessions. Now if anyone is looking for a good dentist…. just don’t judge him for wanting to use the shape of the six (and it’s subsequent upside down heart) for a nine in the June 9, 2012 “save the date.”
