Today was the greatest day of my life! It was an extremely long day and I wish it would never end. I am exhausted and I feel very lucky to have such amazing people in my life and path. I am making tons friends and getting even more work done! In the morning we met up with Bob N then we all went to Leblon. Gilberto Chateaubriand was gracious enough with his time to let me and everyone else into his house in Leblon to talk and let me do his portrait and show some of his amazing collection. He was one of the nicest people I have ever met. I photographed, we joked around, we had some Espresso, and some drinks. While photographing an amazing artist named Roberto Cabot stopped by for a visit, it made for some interesting portraits and afternoon. After we headed back to Copacabana. We had salgados then headed to our next destination. I was unaware of what was waiting. Wilton Montenegro and his amazing wife invited many artists over to there amazingly beautiful home in Santa Teresa for me to photograph. The view from Wilton’s balcony was one of the most amazing things that I have ever seen! I was met an amazing turn out of people. I was busy photographing from the time I got there until the last person left. So many amazing creative people in one room! I feel very loved today and I am very grateful and thankful for everyone that took time out of their schedule to let me photograph them. For all that did not get photographed we will be in touch and hopefully we can meet up before I leave so I can photograph you. please feel free to email me robertbrandanmartinez@gmail.com to schedule. I also want to thank everyone else that stopped by to talk and share in the festivities. Thank you to everyone that was kind enough to give me books of their works. I feel accepted by the amazing people and artists of Rio. Thank you all for everything! Today was the greatest day of my life and I will always remember it until the day I die! Thank you to everyone!
