Aaron Riveroll | Photographer

I’ve had one of the most amazing weekends I’ve had in a long time. I kept busy most of the time, but every second was well worth it.

Let’s start on Friday. Granted, it wasn’t that eventful, but I spent a lot of time working on this wedding video. I had a little bit of me time too just curled up on the couch watching tv, something I never get to do anymore.

Well, at least not all the time.

I woke up early on Saturday and started again with the editing. In the afternoon, I had an engagement photo shoot at the Rancho Bernardo Winery. I had the pleasure of photographing my cousin, Tara, and her fiancé, Aleck, who by the way is a great guy. I had a blast spending time with both of them and I think we got some great shots:

Half way through the shoot, I was taking pictures of them on this old swing and this random cat shows up out of nowhere. He makes random appearances in most of the pictures.

All in all, it was a beautiful day and some good times. I even got to hang out with my brother a little bit, something I never get to do. I miss that guy.

Today was an awesome day as well. Again, morning editing followed by yet another photo shoot; this time, up at Windansea. Again, I lucked out with the weather…clouds were rolling in and out all day, but parted ways for our shoot. The tide was extraordinarily high today too, which was odd. As I sat there waiting for the girls to show up, I sat up on the cliff looking around trying to think of where we would shoot…and was astonished at how the beach didn’t even look familiar. Water covered parts of beach that were usually uncovered and open. Nature’s a curious thing.

Anyway, I had the pleasure of photographing two gorgeous girls, Heather and Marisa. I was excited for the shoot, because Heather and I had been trying to plan this shoot for a while…finally, it all worked out. Here are a few quick edits that I did tonight:

And then one with the lucky guy who got to take the pictures.

We had a great time shooting and are planning another one down the road. Definitely good times. I’ll post more pictures to my Picasa gallery as I edit them.

After I got home and showered the beach off of me, Brian, Flor, and I headed out to WalMart and got our Christmas tree. I know, it’s not even December yet, but we’re getting a head start I suppose. :) We also got all the trimmings and ornaments as well and had a great time decorating and singing along to Christmas music. I even tacked a piece of mistletoe above my door. I just need to get a girl to come over…that’s the tough part. It got me thinking of old days and Christmases gone by. We used to have good times decking the halls. Anyway, I’ll post some pictures later. I think I’m going to get going to bed. After a great weekend like this, who would want to go to work tomorrow?

Okay, so I might have shamelessly lured you in to reading this. This post isn’t about girls in underwear so much as it is with moonlighters. But for those of you that like that sort of thing, there will be a few girls in their unmentionables.

First, many of you know I work for The “W.” Our commercials are great, aren’t they? Even though I had nothing to do with them. Check out this winner from our current ad campaign: watch video

Bill, the protagonist, is a swell guy, ain’t he? Not only does he get to hang out with stodgy bankers all day, he also gets to hang out with girls in their underwear.

Sort of like me, I suppose. :)

Anyway, here are the girls. And the fruit. Make sure you get a good look at the purple grape guy: watch video

And you know, I just took another look at that video…I think the green grape guy is a surgeon on ER.

For those of you that like music, here’s another video. A talented bunch of fruit, they is.

So I’m in sort of a weird mood right now…i’ve been editing video for a while and needed a break, so I thought I would edit and post some more of my favorite commercials. Ah, the wonders of iMovie. :) Anyway, I have three to share…but I’m going to space them out a bit so be patient.

The first one, is for my dad. He really digs this commercial. And frankly so do I. How can you not love Jessica Simpson in Daisy Dukes?

And frankly, what the heck is 1080i anyway? And do you really care?

And if that doesn’t satisfy your Jessica Simpson craving, get your fix with The Boots video.

I’m a big fan of history, so as I was driving home tonight, I got to thinking where we got some of our street names. When I was in college, I lived in a place surrounded by authors. My grandparents reside in an area of trees. And now, I’m in scholarly company surrounded by Ivy league schools.

Journal of San Diego History

I’m a photographer. I work with a lot of beautiful, gorgeous women…models, if you will.

I have to tell you, I can only imagine that it’s difficult going through life being really, really ridiculously good looking. Then you have to deal with hair, makeup, hitting the gym, making sure you look good in a bikini.

And if that wasn’t enough to worrk about, check this article out:
Beauty queen puts down arms to save legs | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com

I am so pissed off, I am using a lot of self control to not use any inappropriate language.

I read in the papers today that the son of a b—- that ran down that girl at SDSU the other day was finally caught. I’m sorry, but that is TOTALLY inexcusable. Yeah, an accident is an accident…which really shouldn’t have happened…but to just drive off and leave an innocent girl for dead is just beyond unforgivable. It blows my mind how someone could have done something like that.

When my dad told me earlier today that they had arrested that punk, I rejoiced in the fact that some sort of justice would be done and this dirtbag would pay the price. And then my heart dropped when I read this just a few minutes ago.

No justice of any kind could ever erase this or bring back the life of someone who obviously was taken way sooner than she should have been. Things like this remind me about how life sometimes isn’t fair.

My prayers go out to Whitney’s friends and family.

• SDSU student arrested in hit-run; victim dies

One of my past crushes, Jenna Fischer, appears on Letterman. And she’s in the mood for…tapioca.

I am at work today, once again rejoining the ranks of the useful. It’s been a rough week, being sick and all. The worst is over, but I’m still coughing like a fool. It’s more annoying than anything else.

Work is still work. Even after being gone for what feels like a week, it’s good to know that not much has changed. You know how I deal with change.

I’ve been evaluating some things regarding life and love and after many ponderings realize I don’t know what I’m thinking about. I know I want it. I think the main problem is that once you realize who and what you want, do you go the nice guy route and take no for an answer? Or do you fight for what you want? One of my favorite lyrics is penned by Bethany Dillon…

”Gaze into my eyes,
And let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love…”

I think that when you find that special someone, you are willing to go the distance. I know I’m prepared to. There are things I do for you that I wouldn’t necessarily do for other people. I am willing to fight for your love…but at what point am I fighting a hopeless battle?

Anyway, some random thoughts…

In other news, I spent most of the weekend recuperating and working. I had a great day off on Friday; with a morning photo shoot in Point Loma with one of my favorite models, Stevie. We shot our sports theme with a Chargers football jersey…which from what I hear, is very appropriate for this weekend since the Bolts kicked some tail (I missed the game, which is unfortunate). Even though the Chargers won, I definitely wasn’t on my game Friday morning…actually, both Stevie and I were sick. I had no lighting control and my reflector blew all over the place. I did get a few nice shots, though…

…but I am thinking about re-shooting this one, though. I’ll let you know what develops. Get it? That was a photography pun. I kill me.

Friday was wrapped up with lunch with Flor at the Olive Garden and dinner at Schmidt’s Gay’s pad.

The rest of the weekend was pretty inconsequential. And here I am back at work. I’ll write more later. I’m really looking forward to lunch.

So they sent me home early today. This flu is really getting to me…but hopefully it will clear up fast. I made another visit to the store (seems like Target and Walmart have seen me more in the last week than anyone else) and now I’m all medicated.

I have been going through the pics from last weekend and decided to post a few. Most are real winners, like the money shots of Meg…but most are just cute like this:

Then there are the ones of the wedding. I included some of Megan’s awesome shots in the gallery. You can’t tell them apart, but the ones that are AWESOME are hers. :)

Get more here. I may post more too.

Can you die from coughing? It sure feels like it sometimes. It’s been rough couple of days, folks. Let’s start with the fun stuff …

The last time you heard from me, I was sitting on the floor of Megan’s apartment blogging to you fine people and then we started the drive south. About an hour into the drive, Meg looks in her purse and realizes that she doesn’t have her wallet. So, we immediately make a U turn and head back to Sac. Turns out, her wallet was under the seat of her car. With wallet in hand, we jump on the freeway and head south again. I must say, we made some excellent time. Who knew that my little SUV could go 105? Anyway, after coasting at an abnormally high speed (we made it to Bakersfield in a little under four hours), we were in Los Angeles in no time. We utilized the time in traffic for trash talking, makeup, and applying fake eyelashes (the last two were all Megan). After a quick stop at Target for some essentials and cold medicine, we made it to the shoot on time. The photographer, Chris, was really nice guy. All three of us had a great time talking shop and photography and he snapped some great pictures of Megan as well. I ate some chips. Megan looked absolutely beautiful. After the shoot, I drove Meg to her hotel in Costa Mesa and then headed home. It was an absolutely exhausting day, but I wouldn’t change a second of it. Perhaps it was because I was in good company.

Well, perhaps I would have changed the part where Megan forgot her wallet. But even that was part of the adventure. Seems like the whole weekend was full of those.

Anyway, today I decided to stay home from work since I’m not really feeling any better. I had a brief shopping excursion this morning looking all over town for a Chargers jersey for my shoot this Friday. I finally found one. Other then that, I have been frantically working on finishing this video. I’ve made some progress. This cough is driving me crazy, though. And it bugs me when I try to sing in the car and I sound like Kermit the Frog.

Well, enough procrastinating. Back to work I go. I hope you all had a great hump day.