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Entries from June 2007

2nd Wedding Shoot & PiPho’s 2nd Anniv

June 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

It’s 4:30AM, kailangan kong gumising ng maaga, may scheduled wedding shoot ako today, sobrang aga ng call time ko at 5:30AM. This is my 2nd wedding shoot this month.

Later in the afternoon I’ll be attending PiPho’s 2nd Anniversary celebration which will be held in Makati.

Photo courtesy of PiPho
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Tags: Anniversary · Daily Rants · Photo Ops · Photography · Weddings

Baguio Revisited

June 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments

It’s been more than a decade since I last visited Baguio City, last Monday, I had a chance to visit the City of Pines one more time. My friend asked me accompany him to baguio, gustong mag-unwind dahil sa dami ng trabaho, I gladly accepted the offer, it’s about time that I come back [...]

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Tags: Landscapes · Photo Ops · Photography · Pilipinas · Travel

Mixed Posts: Video, Lenspen & PAL Contest Launch

June 23rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

This is not a backlog, marami lang nangyari sa araw na ito, which I believe to be worth posting. Let me just share 3 things to you all today.
Firstly, our street photo ops was caught on video, Rob Reyes took time to take our video & preparen an AVP1 to be presented to i-Mag [...]

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Tags: Daily Rants · Events · Gears & Gadgets · Photo Ops · Photography

Old Manila Trek Last Part: Binondo to Liwasang Bonifacio

June 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

The trek us lead us to Ongpin St. where the Binondo Church is located, this is my humble depiction of the church’ bell tower.

Bell Tower (1/1000″, f5 @ iso400)
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Tags: Photo Ops · Photography · Pilipinas · Street Life

Old Manila Trek Part 1: Sta. Cruz & Chinatown

June 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Sunday (June 17, 2007) was Fathers Day but I did not celebrate it with my father nor with my son, both situations are complicated. Instead, I joined a photo-ops EB1 organized by i-Mag Photo forumers. The theme was “street photography”, we scaled the streets of Quaipo, Sta. Cruz, Chinatown, Binondo & near by [...]

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Show me the $Money$!!!

June 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments

What a great day!

Yeps! I received my second check from Text-Link-Ads this morning amounting to $51.63. The check represents my Publisher earning for March, April & May & Affiliate earning for May. As a publisher, I got to exhibit an average of 2 links a month at $6 each, that means I’m earning [...]

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Tags: Money Matters · Site Update

Cloud 9

June 15th, 2007 · 7 Comments

The weather hasn’t been good this past few days, palaging umuulan. This kind of situation keeps me locked inside the home, kung baga nakahilata lang maghapon. This also keeps my camera idle, nakakatakot namang ilabas ang camera kapag umuulan, lenses are prone to photographers nightmare called molds & fungi. Nakakatakot na basta [...]

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Tags: Nature · Photography

Site suspended

June 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments

This page opened when I tried to access my site this morning:

I immediately checked my e-mail & got this message from my host:

Your site has been automatically suspended by our system. With this I am now moving your account to a new server to ease up load and for your site to perform better.
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Tags: Site Update · WTF

Kalayaan 2007

June 12th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Today marks the 109th year of Philippine Independence, I woke up early to witness the flag raising ceremony that was held at the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite. Believe it or not, this is my first time to witness such event, the shrine is less than an hour travel from our house, yet I [...]

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Tags: Cavite · Events · Photo Ops · Photography

Bastardizing a historical site

June 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I was disgusted when I saw this video!
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Tags: Cavite · Daily Rants · Pilipinas · WTF