Aaron Riveroll | Photographer

Well, it’s been a long 24 hours. Good…but long. I have been on an emotional roller-coaster, good times…stressful times…peaceful times. Won’t times make up their mind??

After work. I cruised out to Coors with Dan and we took in a little Dave Matthews Band. Dude. Sweet concert. Enough said. Dave was in usual form, kicking butt…playing old tunes, new tunes…it pretty much rocked. After the concert, we drove out to SDSU and I did a ride-along for old times’ sake. Danny’s last shift with State is going on now, so I wanted to get a ride in before he makes the move to Carlsbad. Talk about a crazy shift…not much happened, but we definitely kept busy. And if you were ever wondering if you could see a school girl and a girl wearing nothing but trash-bags or caution tape, just drive out to State. You’ll find pretty much any type of girl, or guy for that matter, and they are usually in an intoxicated state. I saw more people stumbling around and/or throwing up in one night than I usually see. Good times, though.

I crashed late…and hard…only to wake up and take my car to get serviced. Today was the first day in a long time that I haven’t scheduled a photo shoot…so I took advantage of that to run a few errands. I come to find out that my car needs major work and servicing and after all was said and done, I would have ended up paying tons of money. I figured it was time for a new ride. I was inspired by my sister, who recently picked up an 07 Honda civic a few weeks ago…so I headed out to Mission Valley Honda and picked up an 08 Civic Coupe. Fully loaded. It is pretty much the sweetest ride ever. And we were in an out in record time. It was pretty ridiculous. I’m going to enjoy driving it around…and hopefully the ladies will enjoy looking at my riding in it. :P

I also got to hang out a little with Brian and Flor and their friend, Carolyn. We had breakfast at the Mission Cafe and then chilled a little at Flor and Brian’s place, watching Brian hang pictures. Trust me, it’s as exciting as it sounds. :)

Anyway, photos of the new car to come! I’m going to chill for a little while since it’s been a long day..but you’ll hear from me later.

I had the special opportunity to shoot my best friend and his best girl on Wednesday night…

The Magnificent, Noble, Dignitary Sir Brian Mounts and his lady, Flor, announced their engagement a couple weeks ago and I had the opportunity to take their engagement photos…

We tried getting serious pictures, folks…but if you know these two, you know it just isn’t possible. :) Well, we got a couple.

Congratulations to the both of them. They will be tying the knot in December.

I’ve got this on my desktop at work as a little motivator…

It’s not working.

I’m trying, guys…I really am.

How many Asians can you fit in a Honda 2-door coupe?

This is, of course, assuming the vehicle is lowered and tricked out as much as it can be on a minimum-wage salary, looking only slightly ghetto with a crap-ass paint job and ready to drag race at an undisclosed location with some Mexicans down in Chula.

Oh, and the answer is six.

There is something seriously wrong going on here, people. What the eff. Is there something in the water? Am I just naturally immune?

My friends are dropping like flies. I have three friends getting married in a relatively short amount of time…and a lady at work just approached me to do her wedding photography. Now, don’t get me wrong…marriage is a good thing. But everyone getting married all of a sudden? Weird.

If anything, I feel sorry for these saps. :) Just kidding…

But at least it’s profitable for me…being a wedding photographer and all. ;)

Well, it was a fun weekend. Weather was a little crazy…but I think fall is officially here. Fall is definitely one of my favorite seasons. I love the crisp, cool air, the leaves changing…good times. But just because it’s getting colder, that hasn’t stopped me from dragging a hot girl to the beach in a bikini. :)

Speaking of hot girls, I had a busy weekend. Friday, Brian and I headed out to Thin & Onyx and filmed a super cool lingerie and body paint fashion show. Got some great clips…and the girls were smokin’. The paint was really cool under the black lights. Hot girls in lingerie…open bar. No complaints here.

Despite the late night, I woke up early and headed out to Essence Digital’s studio for a photo shoot with the sexy Anastacia. Not only is she gorgeous, but she’s tons of fun to hang out with. I would know, since we spent a few hours last month bonding while walking to our cars after nearly killing ourselves by hiking up the hill at Black’s beach. Anyway…she’s super cool…and we definitely got some great shots in…

Today, I met up with Kimberly for a ever-so-brief shoot at Windansea. The weather was perfect and the sky was clear after the rainyness…but we had some allergy issues and had to cut the shoot short. We got a few good frames, though…and had fun doing it too…

More shots from weekend here. Enjoy…back to the grind tomorrow. It’s winding down…

So my buddy Mike Crouch has inspired me to lean towards video at photo shoots with some projects we’ve got in the works, so I brought my camera to Ennis’s and my photoshoot with Laura. Laura is a sweetheart and Ennis and I do tend to create adventure-like photo shoots, especially with Ennis and his acrobatic skills…so I thought we would definitely get some cool clips. Here is one of them, courtesy of iMovie. I’m not in the movie much…but then again, there would be too many ridiculously good looking people in the movie. And someone has to wield the video camera.

So yes, I’m still awake…I’m a nerd, I know. I was editing some pictures from the weekend. Had a blast at both of my shoots this weekend…today was tons of fun. Cruised up to Ramona with Ennis and did a little exploring to find the perfect spot for our country shoot with Laura Baker. We found a dairy farm, complete with cows, pumpkins, and hay…and we managed to charm the owner of the property into letting us shoot there. He and his daughter were totally chill and let us have a run of the place. It was a lot of fun…although hay and cows don’t smell really good. Luckily I do. Well, Laura does too, since she’s a girl and all.

After shooting for a bit at the farm, we changed it up a bit and headed out to the fairgrounds, where we did a little breaking and entering and shot around the grandstand. It wasn’t really breaking and entering since the gate was unlocked, but we have a feeling they were expecting us and considered it an open invitation to shoot there. Kimberly met up with us a little later and after the shoot, we went to Mi Ranchito for a little food.

All in all, some awesome pictures….and a great adventure:

I really enjoyed showing Ennis and Laura around my hometown…definitely good times.

Now, I’m off to bed. More later.

Okay, so I’m a little sleepy, so this is going to be a little short. It’s been a long week, so I haven’t been as on top of the updates as I should. I think you know why…

But I have been a busy guy. More on that later. I will, however, share some pictures from today’s (yesterday’s) adventures with Kimberly. We had a blast as always…since she is one cool chick. :) We headed out with Ennis and snapped a few shots at our secret location. Ennis, of course, did his acrobatics (video coming soon), and I got some super sweet shots of this sexy, classy girl. Take a gander…

After the shoot, had a great time schmoozing with Kimberly, Ennis, and Gianna over pasta at the Olive Garden. Good times all around.

Tomorrow, Ennis and I head out to my hometown to shoot with the lovely Laura Baker…and hopefully will get a surprise visit from Kimberly. More to come…and video too!!

Good night, all!

I’m a ridiculously good looking, nice guy/photographer. Like Napoleon, I’ve got all kinds of skills. Numb-chuck skills. Bo staff skills. Computer hacking skills. Mortgage processing skills.

I’ve just spent the last 2 hours pimping myself out to every corporate monster that exists. The “W” is shutting our center down, which means I need a job.

So I ask again. Wanna hire me?

I don’t want to say making French fries is beneath me…but since I do have a college degree, I think I’m more qualified and willing to eat the French fries. (so I applied to Jack in the Box. :) )

I have some time…so if anyone knows of places that are hiring, send them my way. My resume is polished and ready. My suit is pressed. I’m not sad I’m losing my job…I’m mostly sad that I won’t be working with my friends here for very much longer. They are a cool group of people. I think we’re all sad, really.

And who wants to do work today? Not me…I’m ready for lunch in a big way.

Happy hump day.