Monday, May 07, 2007

USC graduation ceremonies...

thursday, gary and i will hook up with his
mom, brother and sister-in law out in california
for machie's graduation from film school at USC!
pretty exciting. we are all so proud of her!

i haven't been to LA in awhile so i guess secretly
i'm excited that she chose USC in the first place! :)

yesterday, i spent the better part day with
5 cancer kids at the twins/red socks game (we lost!)
but i feel like i won. i love covering this event!
the weather was terrible but miraculously the tent
near the area that we always use was unoccupied so
the twins people set us up in there! we are most
grateful for that for sure!!! so windy that trees
were snapping all over town! it would have been a
disastrous picnic!
$750 was the high bid to throw out the first pitch!
so down on the field i went with the family!

i was able to rig a slide show of the images i shot
at last year's event so that folks could see what
they would be experiencing...it was cool!
then i sat up in the sky box with the cancer kids..
jesse, david, haley, andrew and erin. i'll post those
images tomorrow. it fills me with joy to see these
kids and their families enjoying a day out totally
covered by the foundation and my friend jim werdin's
insurance agency
nicely done jim!


let me back up for a moment...
pete and anne got home at 3 am!!!!! yes...3 am!
the violent storms in the miami area made it
so that their flight was late taking off by 3 hours!
the girls really thought that they could stay up
and wait like when they got home from australia
last summer! a......no.
so i'm home now and it's pretty quiet here.
it's nice, but i miss the girls already!


i received an e-mail from a bride looking to plan
a destination wedding near playa del carmen, mexico.
she had been to my site and loved my photography.
she was looking for more information from me regarding
travel. this will be my first, real "web site" driven
wedding inquiry. all others have been referrals (which i think
is actually pretty cool!) she liked holly & john's
church location in porto aventuras.
here's holly & john from houston...





moving on...i got my assignments for the
starkey hearing foundation gala for 2007.
jay leno is back for the 2nd year to mcee.
some other names you'll recognize are...
kenny loggins, goldie hawn, leslie nielson,
tommy lasorda, kevin sorbo, jane seymour,
marion ross, lou ferrigno, richard petty and
golf legend, arnold palmer! and they tell us
that there will be many more suprizes!
this will be such a wonderful experience for
me! i'm really excited to be selected to
photograph this event!

i've got lots to do today so i'll post photos
from my stay with the girls tomorrow.
some really fun ones.

another soggy day here in minnesota!

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