Gabriel Rivera

 On a trip to Pissa, we stopped in Venice for lunch...lol..

 Attended Central Texas College in Killeen Texas, I chose this picture because it best exemplifies a bucket list to me..The picture is of me and Elizabeth Schlipp, a young friend I made at college. She died in a car accident a month afte...

 I picked up my first camera in a pawn shop in San Antonio Texas..Several classes later, and thousands of pictures later, I believe that I have become an above average photographer...

 Ask a random stranger to take a selfie with you...

In 2009 I attended a Zack Brown Band Concert and was able to squeeze my way to the front row and take a close up shot with my camera. A little bit of chicken fried...lol 

When I was a Marine stationed in Okinawa, some friends and I took a trip to Japan and climbed Mt. Fuji...signed the  book, and partied like rock stars... 

 The tattoo speaks for itself..

Bought my first house 6 days before the market fell apart in 2008 

Back when gas was over $3 per gallon, I realized I could buy a motorcycle and make the payments and fill the gas tank for less than I was already spending on my current truck at the time. So I bought a motorcycle and saved myself over $1...

It was memorable... 

Took the family on vacation for a week. Funny, they don't celebrate the 4th of July.. 

 I was stationed in Okinawa Japan at camp schwab from 1989 to 1992...

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was being present in the delivery room when my son was born in Landsthul Germany.  

While stationed in Okinawa I received my SCUBA diving certification and went diving at the north end of the island below a waterfall.... 

 Received a pure bread Red Healer puppy as payment for a photography services.. Brought her home and named her Angel, and for the next 15 years she was part of our family, traveling everywhere we went as a family. everywhere from Oklahom...

 the view front my front porch during an eclipse...

In 2014 a close friend and Hunting buddy of mine passed away. He was an avid hunter and gun collector. He introduced me to Dove, Duck hunting, and he was just about to start Deer hunting before he passed away.  As I was helping his fathe...

 During a fund raiser for my business club in College I dressed up as santa...

I attended a car show in Killeen, Texas on a whim...not my first car show, but it was the first time I took my camera with me.. 

 Take a road trip on a motorcycle with a friend.

In 2012 I joined a photography group and one after noon I photographed a new group that played on 6th Street in Austin 

 My uncle had a very small hunting blind that he used to take family members hunting. However, it was very small and cramped when you put two people in his old blind. So I built him a blind that was 8feet wide, 5 feet deep and 7 feet tal...

After my children were grown, I decided to buy a motorcycle. 60,000 in the first 18 months of owning it.... 

I go to JustGlocks shooting range all the time... 

 While living in Germany my family and I visited castles throughout Europe. In Germany we visited Frankenstein castle,​Bamberg Castle, Nurnburg Castle, Wurzburg Castle,Hohenzollern Castle, Heidelburg castle, Hurceles castle, New Sweinste...

On a visit to Italy we stopped by to take a look at the leaning tower of Pisa.. 

 I attended a military training school in Den Heag, and on one weekend several students and I took the train to Amsterdam to tour the Red light district. The museum was one of our many stops that weekend.

Took my wife to Italy for our anniversary during Carnival.

Took the family on vacation to Scotland for a week.  

 took a trip to London with the family

 To really get the experience of being in a foregin country, when I lived in Germany I would get on the train and travel until I didn't recognize any of the city names anymore then I would get off the train and sight see for the day and ...

On a cold winter day in December just a few days after arriving in Germany I saw an actual steam engine training running through town. I paid the fair and rode around Frankfurt Germany for over an hour.. 

 While deployed to Iraq, I had the chance to ride a camel....How many times in your life do you get that chance, so I jumped at the chance and now it's a great memory.

Out on a weekend excursion I took my family to Holland during the peek season to see the tulips in bloom...Several of the pictures I took that day hang on the wall in my kitchen as decoration.  

 Family reunion 1983

Once while traveling from Okinawa to the United States my seat was double booked, and I was upgraded to 1st class...Most comfortable flight of my life.. 

In 2009 I took my children to Disney world and to the Universal studio park in florida. We had a great time. 

When I was 14 my father sent me to a sort of camp/ranch, where the older camp memebers would round up the horses, give them baths, and comb, saddle, and lead them around a track giving the younger members rides. After lunch all of the ol...

 When I was a kid, my father was stationed in Germany. On one weekend he took us to ride in a glider..

Went on a weekend trip with girl I was dating at the time.. had a lot of fun.. 

 Went on a 5 day vacation in Ireland, the picture was taken during a boat trip along the Cliffs of Mohr on the west coast of Ireland.

Went to Paris France for my daughters birthday in 2005 and went to the very top of the Eiffel Tower. 

 My wife and I went to Venice durring carnival for our anniversery.

I traveled to Washington to teach a class...it was a wonderful trip 

While stationed in Germany, I traveled to all countries in Europe with the exception of Iceland. 

Took my family on a 5 day vacation to ireland...one of the greatest vacations we have ever had... 

I visited New York when I was 16 years old...Sitting at a small metal table eating a slice of Pizza, I saw an old woman with a rolling cart packed full of stuff. She stopped and asked if I had some change to spare and I gave her 4 or 5 l...

 I took my wife to Venice and we rode a gondola 

While stationed in Germany, my family and I visited France many times. On one of our trips we visited the Louvre even though the picture is of Notre Dame Church. 

1996 thru 1999 and again from 2003-2008 while I was stationed in Germany..  

While stationed in Okinawa I was able to travel to Mainland Japan where I tried Sushi on my first trip to Tokoyo... 

When I was in Marine School of infantry I met a girl on one of my liberty weekends.  She invited me to join her and her friends on the beach and after the sun set we started a fire on the beach...I don't remember her name, but I remember...

I owned my own photography business for several years. 

While traveling through southern Germany I threw a coin into a fountain. 

The first time I saw the lights was on a transatlantic flight when the pilot told the passengers if we looked out the windows we could see the Northern lights. The second time was 1992 during cold weather training. 

In 2009 I took my family on a cruise to the Bahamas, I would recommend it to everyone...

When I was in the Marine Corps, a plane that I was flying on had to make an emergency landing due to equipment failure. As luck would have it, we landed in Hawaii where we spent the next 5 days while we waited on the mechanics to make th...

 On a visit to New York I took a sight seeing tour on a helicopter, even got to fly around the statute of liberty. When I was stationed in Okniwa during training my unit conducted amphibous landings utilizing chinuk helo's, and on my sec...

When I was 16, I was hired to drive a car from New Jersey to Texas. I took a little detour and drove through New York...even all these years later it's an experience I would not recommend to anyone.. Driving that it, the city was beautif...

Family vacation when I was younger.