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About Me

Hello, my name is Charlie. I take photographs, I listen to music, and I drink beer.
"...they walked away with things of mine they never needed. I won't soon regain those and, even if I do, they'll never be just mine anymore.
Born in South America to loving parents, raised in the streets of New York City, attended Boy Scout meetings in NYPD precincts as a child, trained in the U.S. Marine Corps where I served honorably 8 years, a proud product of the public school system through college, having earned a degree in Political Science (International Relations), living in a little house on just about half an acre in Stafford, Virginia, and working for a great company as a Security Engineer, I have much to be grateful for. I shoot photographs, I listen to music, I love my family, and I love my friends. I am no one without them.
Should you need to contact me, you can leave me a message on here, or you can e-mail me at [email protected].
"Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more. You...are all I long for, all I worship, and adore. In other words...please be true. In other words...I love you." Frank Sinatra
"One is enough
One glance
is enough to capture a heart
One touch
is enough to hold a life
One word
is enough to stop hate
One kiss
is enough to find what was lost
One gesture
is enough to give faith to another
One day
is enough to change our world forever
One person
is enough to help mankind
One flower
is enough to color our souls
One whisper is enough to raise the voices of hundreds
One is enough"
Brianna Margarita Marroquin
Copyright Â©2006 Brianna Margarita Marroquin

My Interests

Photography and music. I also enjoy reading, fitness, movies, concerts, working on the house, travel and drinking beer.

I shoot with a Canon 20D and all my glass is Canon L-series; I avoid using flash.

My favorite band is U2, my favorite photographers are Ansel Adams and Anton Corbijn, and my favorite beer is Newcastle.

I'd like to meet:

YOU, Ansel Adams, Anton Corbijn, Siddhartha Gautama, Peter Gabriel and Bono. I like people who smile and help others smile. I don't care what's hanging between your legs or off your chest. I really don't differentiate. Good is good, love is love, and skin is skin. As long as you're happy and you're not hurting anyone, it's all good in my book. We each have a story to tell and I'd like to hear yours. And I won't judge you the way so many religious hypocrits out there who profess to love but instead are filled with ignorance and hatred already judge us all. So, yeah, I'm open to meeting anyone, really. It doesn't matter to me what your race, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference, sleeping habits, musical style, or shoe size are; if you're a good person and you treat people kindly (including and especially strangers and those whose acquaintance cannot benefit you in any way), then I'd like to meet you. So, feel free to contact me, say hi, add me as a friend, and let's go from there :)

Music:

U2, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Pink Floyd, Tracy Chapman, Led Zepellin, The Who, Travis, Keane, Bruce Springsteen, Three Doors Down, Matchbox Twenty/Rob Thomas, Cobbler, Tears of Mars, shallowDeep,, Blind Rhetoric, The Lost Tourists, Army of Me, My Favorite Highway, The Doors, Linkin Park, James Blunt, Ozzy Osbourne, David Gray, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bob Marley, Gnarles Barkley, Teddy Geiger, The Killers, Razorlight, Panic! At The Disco, Blue October, and the freakin' list goes freakin' on!

Movies:

The Godfather, Schindler's List, Dead Poet Society, Basketball Diaries, The Last Samurai, Seven Years In Tibet, Europa Europa, Gladiator, Russia House, Little Odessa, Motorcycle Diaries, Shadowlands, Passion of the Christ, Life is Beautiful, Billy Elliot, Star Wars, The Excorcist, The Fisher King, and Boondock Saints (thanks, Stevie)

Television:

The History Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E, Commedy Channel, Bravo, The Travel Channel, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, West Wing, Seinfeld, 24, British sitcoms

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, Lawrence of Arabia by Jeremy Wilson, Truman by David Mcullough, Tuesdays With Morie by Mitch Albom, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer, How I Became Stupid by Martin Page, The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill, Tom Clancy (Jack Ryan books), Stephen King (the older stuff).

Heroes:

Humble and compassionate people who are selfless in their thoughts, words and deeds. My Mom, Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama, Mohandes Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Gabriel and Paul Hewson (Bono). But no list is complete without thanking those who walk among us now: family, friends, musicians and artists; all of whom inspire me and keep me going. Without you I'd be lost...

My Blog

Bo Tree Photography (non) Rates $$$

Thank You I'd like to begin by stating how truly honored I feel when asked by a musician or a band to photograph them. I know how much time, effort and money musicians dedicate to their pas...
Posted by bo tree photography back-up on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:11:00 PST

A band and their photographer

More specifically, the relationship between U2 and their photographer, Anton Corbijn... Here's a quote by Wim Wenders: -- Not so the Dutchman, the fifth band member who play...
Posted by bo tree photography back-up on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:41:00 PST