Monday, September 22, 2008

Weekend Wildflower

This past Sunday, me and Madeline went to Elephant Butte, NM for a photo shoot. Madeline took photos of our hair stylist Anette's three boys. It was a fun shoot, as we had them climb up a tree, pose in front of desert foliage, and roll around on the lawn.





We also visited Madd's folks, Gerald and Susie, and their soon-to-be-completed new home. It's really close to being done, just laying the concrete around the house, a wall or two, some fencing, and wha-la! We'll take more detailed photos in the coming weeks.

View from their patio. (Notice the manicured dirt. This photo was taken about a month earlier; but rest assured that the patio area has now been paved nicely with concrete.)



Side view of the new house, from the patio point of view. (The architectural style can be called Tuscan. But after nearly a year of building the house, sometimes Gerald has called it by different names.)


But as we were driving back home, we noticed a patch of wildflowers blooming by the side of the road. We had to stop and admire it, and of course, take pictures.





Thursday, September 18, 2008

MadJava Production Journal Blog Created!

Hello Folks!


Thought we'd finally join the blog community and set up our own blog site. What we thought we'd do was fill these pages with some current news of our projects, and photos. But we'd also like to incorporate some personal thoughts and introspection along the way. Hopefully make it fun too! So, on with the current news...

At this time, we're busy finishing up a couple of projects for Gouldings' Lodge (located in Monument Valley, Utah--home of John Wayne's and John Ford's classic Western films). Madeline is finishing up with archiving old photos from the lodge's Trading Post Museum. And I'm putting together a channel guide video for viewing in their motel rooms. (And it'll be sometime in October that we'll be heading back to Monument Valley, stay tuned.)
Here are some photos last taken in August when my family (the Anselmo side :) drove out and visited Monument Valley for the first time:

Family photo with Jenny, Dad, Mom, nephew Loren, Madeline, me, and nephew Aaron.
Jenny and Loren sitting pretty on the pretty rock.
Jenny and Aaron inside the stagecoach. Yee-haa!

Loren contemplating life as he knows it.

Nathan (Madeline's brother), Christy (sister-in-law), and their twin girls Odessa and Genevive.
Odessa looks around for her baby bottle.