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February 20th @ Adriatica in McKinney

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February 27th @ Arbor Hills Nature Preserve

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That’s right!  It’s Cans for Comments… For every comment this blog receives between now and December 20th, 2009 we will donate a can of food for each comment to the McKinney Food Pantry.  So leave a comment, donate a can to help feed the needy.  We’ve upped the odds as well!  For every 20 comments, we’ll add on a bag of dried beans and for every 50 comments we’ll add on a box of powdered milk.  Those are the items that the McKinney Food Pantry was in need off as well as canned fruits and vegetables, so if you’d like to help too, please visit their website at http://mckinneyfoodpantry.org.  So 100 comments would be 100 can goods, 5 bags of dried beans and two boxes of powdered milk.  Help us help them, just by leaving a comment on the blog, something like “Great Cause!”, “Great Pics!”, “Donate a can for me!” or just “We love you Josh!” is all it takes to help at this time of year.  Then forward the link to a friend and have them do the same.

Meet Tod and Ashley!  

Now I must mention again, a dozen or so photographers are all shooting pictures at the same time, so imagine the paparazzi shooting an engagement and you are there!

You know, I luv my blue skies!

Behind the scenes, you’d occasionally see a photographer posing and directing like Stacy below…

One of the problems, when trying for a wide angle shot like below, you had too many photographers in the way…  But that’s okay!

Cuz Jason is more than willing to stand in once everyone moves spots!

Back to those gorgeous blue skies, I loved this one…

And I’ll toss in one SOC (Straight Outta Camera) so that you don’t think it’s all photoshopped.

Did I mention there were a bunch of photographers there?  Sometimes they even were in charge of hair, like Jared below.

Which made it easy to snag pics like this…

and another little behind the scenes look at a few of the photographers in attendance, and my light of course!

It wasn’t all work though, there was plenty of footsie playing and leg rubbing going on, but I can’t tell you who was rubbing on Tod’s leg.

Like I said, I did shoot some available light…

And some light that was available to me…

And a little different light that was available was the mini-frezzi video light…

Afterwards, we even did dinner and you’ll have to try and guess who’s fake birthday resulted in a chicken on their head…

Here’s Ron getting the Blad setup

and another on the field with my Quantum T5DR

We started up in the corner of the Cotton Bowl with this guy nicknamed “Roger the Dodger” or “Captain Comeback”, I’ll just try and call him Captain Comeback as this might be a long story, but one I had typed up that night while it was all still fresh.

As you can see it was a little bit of a production with Fox 4 and Time Warner both filming while shooting.

We started doing some throwing motions and started throwing the ball to me about 5 feet away. On the 4th pass, I said, I oughta start counting these and keep a running total. Ron told him I had been waiting all week to catch a pass from him…

We then went down on the field and got the lights set up and he was talking with Nita from Fox 4 and I went over to get him if he was through with her questions, while talking with her, he raised the ball and waved me “to go deep” and I took off across the field. Now the shots we were doing were with old leather helmets, so the ball he was throwing was a replica 1930 football, with no little nubbins for grip and about as fat as a watermelon. As I am running, I thought to myself, you can’t let a single ball he throws touch the ground because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. First throw down on the field is led perfectly as I have to reach as far as possible to get both hands on it and just sandwich it together. With my head, hands (holding a ball just thrown from Captain Comeback) way out in front of my body, I finally regain my step to some cheers from Captain Comeback, Nita and the other camera crew. As I am running towards Captain Comeback to throw the ball, cuz I don’t want to embarrass myself trying to throw a watermelon 30 yards, I hear Captain Comeback tell Nita, “that was a nice catch”, ok surely he’s blowing smoke but I could care less. I threw it back and he waved me on again, same deal perfect spiral and I squeeze it in. Then again, and again, and again and again till the 17th ball while sprinting down the field sails over my leaping outstretched arm by a few feet do I hang my head and shame and tell him “I had to have at least one TO moment”. We continued shooting the pics and on of the shots, he told Ron, “He’s got some good hands!”

I’m freaking floating, Captain Comeback just told me I have good hands! Sure again, he’s probably blowing smoke, but I don’t freaking care… I just caught 23 of 24 balls from Roger the Dodger, the Dodger just threw me passes so hard it left my ring finger red and swollen and I could care less, even if it’s broken. The only thing I wish, is that I could somehow hold a camera while catching passes, but I did get a pic with him afterwards.

A quick snap as he was leaving

I headed up to the dressing room to see if Moose had made it yet and Captain Comeback was out signing hard hats from all the guys working on the Cotton Bowl, I admire the guys that do that instead of the not now, I’m busy types.

Moose came next and I didn’t dare let him block me, he squeezed into some old timie shoes that were about a size to small. He grinned and beared it for the shot and ended up getting some really cool stuff like below and in a Heisman like pose.

As soon as that shoot finished, I was helping Moose rip off the size to small leather shoes so he could get a little more camera time in comfort with Nita and Cody.

All in all, a cool shoot and even more cooler day that I will never forget.

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Now playing: Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
via FoxyTunes

See the website

See the press release on Snowflex

People always laugh at my contract when they see that I have a reality show clause, but I would almost waive that to do “my big redneck wedding”! I did say almost! If you haven’t seen it, I’ll give you some highlights and then you have to go watch it! This episode in a nutshell:
Pee Proposal
Bride size 28, orders dress off internet shipped in a FedEx box, no packing but was a size 8
Beer Can Archway
Venue – Flea Market
Bouquets – no ribbon wrappings, budweiser cans for wrapping
Bassett Hounds as ring bearer and flower girl
Released chickens, not doves
Newspapers, mason jars and weed flowers for table settings
Did I mention the bride couldn’t find her teeth the wedding day, but mom offered hers

I’ll just steal this part from the website:
Guests ate a wonderful meal of fried chicken, pulled pork and BBQ beef, and a cake of 4 layers and of 4 different flavored layers!!!!!! We then went outside and tried the mechanical bull and the rode away in our Chevy Trailblazer, pulling our beer cans. Oops! or was that the archway!!!!!!! Then we exchanged gifts. John gave me a stuffed animal he won. I gave John a bowling ball that said, “Think of me when you touch your ball.” Then we went off to a honeymoon, and are the happiest redneck couple ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about the vows?
“I wish I could put your love in a locket because your hotter than a hot pocket.
We did it in the backseat, we did it in the zoo, I don’t care where we do it as long as it’s witchu”

Here’s the link if you have the time to watch. Link