Why I Keep Coming Back to Baguio

Here's the link to my Baguio Set in Fluidr (it's like Flickr in Black!). This set is a collection of photos I took from several visits we made to this place. They're just too many, I just had to post the link. :D

Five (no more, no less.. :D) New Year Street Shots

Happy New Year!!! :)

6 Million Dollar Home!

Super early Christmas gift from Danny! Woohoooo! Thanks, honey! :D

Vintage Photos

..because I am such a lucky girl, a friend gave me his copy of National Geographic's 100 Best Vintage Photographs, yay! Thanks Don, ang bait mo talaga! :D

The Red Wall Experience

Here's my collection of portraits of people who are close to my heart with the 'famous' (at least, to those who've experienced it :D) red wall in the background:

My eldest daughter Sofia, and her helium-filled pet Cutie-cutie :D

My youngest daughter, Tallulah My youngest brother, Mar

My eldest brother Marlon and my youngest sister Eunice :DMy second youngest brother, Martin

My second eldest brother, Mark (in his mala-Dingdong Dantes pose..haha!)

My one and only sister, Eunice My nieces, Nicole, Tricia, Sabel and Izy My nieces Mae and Lyan with Sofiamore nieces and nephews and in-laws Don't you just love those writings on the wall? :D more to follow!

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." - ~Erma Bombeck

365 Days of Being 32!

It's my birthday today! I am starting a new '365 project' and I hope I won't miss a single day this time (my fingers are crossed!). No more excuses this time. If I don 't have my DSLR with me, my handy dandy cellphone camera or someone else's camera should save the day. If I missed a day due to the 'after effect' of epidural (I had it twice!), I am giving myself 24 hours to take a photo for the day I missed. So again, the goal is to take at least one photo a day for an entire year (before I turn 33, sheesh! :D). I hope to learn more about myself through this project and at the same time realize that every single day is a blessing that should not be taken for granted. You can check the album here!

Back to Basics

I attended Jo Avila's Basic Photography Seminar for the past two Sundays (February 14 & 22) in his studio at Greenhills, San Juan. This was sort of a refresher for me since I've already attended FPPF's Basic and Advance photo workshop long ago when it was only me and my Nikon F60. And ever since I went 'digital' with my Nikon D80, I just figured out all the camera settings by myself and I've been processing my photos only through Picasa, Picture Project and through some 'tools' I am familiar with at Photoshop, and so I thought it was time to get to know more about my gear and learn 'more' about 'basic' (hehe..) Photoshop and Color Management. So there, all the while I thought going digital would make my life easier, but I was so wrong..hehe.

Anyway, First Sunday was like deja vu - it was f/stops all over again, haha! - but in fairness, Jo Avila made it all not-so-complicated, or maybe I wasn't just listening before, haha! Second Sunday was about basic photoshop and color management, which is the main reason why I signed up for this seminar. Now, I better start 'practicing' everything that I've learned from the seminar bago ako malito uli..hehe. (Honey, I need a new laptop!) :D

Crumpler's Beer for Bags Promo!

On my way to the office this morning, I heard over the radio about the Crumpler Beer for Bags Promo which is happening from February 21 to February 26 only at Bonifacio High Street! Check out the link and see which items you need to bring to get that Crumpler bag. I said 'items,' because aside from beers, you also need to bring food items like barbecue sauce, Doritos, Cheetos, Tabasco, and chicharon (promise!) depending on which bag you like. Cute 'no? haha! I know you still need to shell out some cash to buy the beers, etc. in exchange for the bags, but still, the prices of the bags are 30% to 50% cheaper when bought with beer than with cash, so that's 50 to 70% discount! Plus, for every bag you buy, you also get a ticket to Crumpler's Beer for Bags Party on February 27, 8pm, at Warehouse 135a, where all those beers and food items collected will be served!

By the way, the promo is for 18 years old and above only! :D

The Indios Experience

The Flickristasindios 1st Photo Exhibit
TriNoma, Cinema Level
15-19 December 2008

"The Indios is an assembly of Filipino Flickr members bonded by their love for life through photowalks and charity works, weekly get-togethers, and most of all, by their serious passion for photographic art. The exhibit will showcase the works of these men and women ranging from the mundane to the surreal, from snapshots of daily life to the unexplored and magical worlds and everything else in between."

- as written by .bullish, one of the ninunos of the group

The exhibit is sponsored by Yahoo!, TriNoma, and Digiprint. See

you there! :)

Another Day in Paradise

I’m sure many of us have already seen this photo. It’s all over the internet. I’ve received several forwarded e-mails about this Pulitzer Prize-winning image (1994) and the photographer (Kevin Carter) who took his own life due to depression, maybe partly because of this picture. This photo has made me cry and has left me pondering why life's just not fair sometimes. Is this really all part of the Grand Plan?

For those who haven’t seen this picture yet, this little Sudanese girl was crawling towards a United Nations feeding center located a kilometer away, while a vulture lurked behind as if it was waiting for the child to die.

While some of us are having another day in paradise, some people in other parts of the world are dying of hunger. Have you ever felt hungry in your entire life and struggled so hard to survive just like this little girl? Or imagine she was your child. So what on earth are we (the fortunate ones, kahit papaano) here for? Come to think of it.