Whew! I have been working, working, working, and catching up, but not blogging! I had a CrAzY week last week, putting about 1300 miles on the old minivan in about 5 days. But it was so fun! First stop, Abilene to shoot Timmy Dixon’s acoustic concert. Last time I shot him, he was performing with his band. It was great to hear the acoustic versions of all his songs, plus some new ones he had written just the last week or two.

Here’s one of the videos. He’s singing “Only In Time” that he wrote last week after one of his friends drowned.



This is Glimpse, one of my favorites out of his original songs.



Check out the rest of the videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/txlonghorn2314. They include his amazing original songs and several great covers as well!

August 7-8 I was in Midland at Rock the Desert, my favorite! It’s hard work, but so much fun. The lineup was great this year and it was fun interviewing all the bands with Shigity Sean!



This is Mr. David Grosse and I love him! He is so awesome at Op Camp and then he came to RTD to be my boom mic guy. He was so nice to carry the huge camera, drive me around and make sure I always had tape and batteries. I could use someone like him pretty much all the time!



This is Kevin Copeland. In a word, he’s amazing. He can do anything in the world of video production and pulls off the production for this huge event every year! I am so thankful he calls me to come out and help!



I grabbed this shot of the Newsboys on stage. I kinda like it.



Here’s Jason from Hawk Nelson. They are so great! They always end up signing autographs for HOURS after their performance!



Mr. Soul Glow Activatur from Family Force 5! There is no one who puts on a show like these guys!! He’s looking rather tame here. Must have caught him in an “off” moment!

After resting a little bit from Rock the Desert, it was back to Abilene to shoot my favorite Cougars on their first morning of two-a-days! This is Cole who will be a sophomore this year! There is so much talent on this team!
Funny story, the head coach’s son is in the Marines and just finished working at the White House. Coach Spradlin got to meet President Bush at some kind of ceremony the soldiers go through after their assignment is done at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. They walked into the room and President Bush asked Coach what he did for a living. When he answered that he coached the Abilene Cooper Cougars, the President said, “Oh! Ya’ll just dropped to 4A!” I love that! Currently, my coogs are ranked 3rd in the state! Whoo hoo! It’s going to be a great season!

These boys are ready to play some football!



I also met Monday with Donny and Randy Vaughn, the Marketing Twins and was excited to hear about things they are doing and how I may be able to do some production for them in the future! So fun catching up with old friends. I was a little tired that day and forgot to take a picture of them, among other things! But check out their blog - they have a lot of exciting things going on!

Okay, Tim and Jordan Philbeck are up next! Stay tuned!

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