waaayyyyy back in 2006! :D

I was going thru my photos uploaded on Flickr which has been inactive in months and thinking of consolidating my photos in one place and deleting one or two accounts and I found this shot in 2006 using a built in camera in a phone...

way way back in 2006, i felt a deep urge to take photos or maybe it was implanted on me to have that urge, even just candid ones, even just for "lomo" style shots i had no DLSR of my own, no digital camera of my own just a measly 3 year old Nokia 3210 so i upgraded to a Sony Ericsson K800i so that i could have both a functionality of a phone and MY own small camera to capture those moments. I love nature and the creations that i see around me, maybe that's why i ended up at taking landscape shots instead of portraits of people, but the thing is we all have one thing in common, we love to see and capture beauty, may it be portraits, macros and landscapes.

We don't need expensive gears to take breathtaking shots as proven by many hobbyist, aspiring, and great photographers lingering somewhere out there just waiting to take the shots they need to make... you just need the passion.

but of course, if somebody will throw me a D800 or a 5DMKIII / X, imma gonna grab it without hesitation :P

the cute girl in the photo waaaaayyy back in 2006 is Iana my "inaanak" (godchild), shes pretty grown up now and still shy to me and to other relatives :)

wow, its been months or years that ive written something this long, hahaha :P

and now to continue my quest to consolidate my photos :P

routinary + complacency are dangerous things

we all know practice makes perfect. we started at zero knowledge on something in a point in our lives, learning new stuffs as we acquire new things, the likes of learning how to bike without those additional two wheels at the back of the bike.... then progressing to riding the bike with no hands at all. a mentor of ours told us that he likes being uncomfortable in his work, it keeps him alert and at his toes, kept being challenged, challenge brings out the best out of him, challenged... brings out the hidden potential out of people, might be double edged sometimes, can be good and could turn out bad. at one point, we can and will experience a routinary loop for a while, when you think you know it all, all things around are easy, no challenge, no ripples in the water, thus being complacent.... and just one day.... disaster will strike, just because you think you know it all, you can predict anything that will happen and prevent it.... doesn't equate you having no problems to encounter, problems that can arise at that point and at that point you're dead center in the disaster zone. what I'm trying t point out is that, not to be complacent, not to be too over confident, just because you've been doing these thing for sometime now doesn't mean your not going to encounter problems along the way. my two cents, be alert at all times and not be complacent.. it can be the beginning and the end of something :D

just ranting out loud :P

waiting

this shot was taken with a camera phone while in the metro of Paris, Etoile (e-twah-ley )station. :D

the weather seems to be wacked this days, as i was expecting it to be summer already, the climate change factor again cane into place, its raining! again? in march! kind of unusual to what we are accustomed in the past...

well, the week has been ok, sort of backing up the files ive accumulated in the past.... astonishingly... ive accumulated (with some of jpeg file albums copied from friends on trips and vacations) more than 80 GB of jpegs and RAW files since 2006 up to now! WOW! so it'll take 20 or more DVD's to back up these :-|, but, i dont mind :D, i love the hobby and it's whats keeping me sane and stress free :D

seriously now, i need to make time to EDIT THOSE TRIP PHOTOS..... @_@

Have a great week ahead!

Ingatz to all
pislabRaken'rol! :D

i think its summer already :D

this shot was taken a year back, kicking of my trying hard Infrared Days, anyhow, I decided to re post process the shot again to a different color, summer yellow color!

I wish i had a 2 week vacation, just me, and the sand, and the friends, and the sunrise, and the sunset, and the camera, and just chillax under the summer afternoon breeze while drinking to a cool fruit shake....... Life :D

cant and donot want to sleep, because when i do... it'll be Monday again :-|

6 elements of Mt. Pulag

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well, this is my first post of the year on this blog :D, the past 4 months, ive been really engaged in travelling to different places and using my gears, camera tools and hoping to hone my skills in taking good photographs... photographs of landscapes...

i still havent posted the past trips that we had, but i will have to post this first as this was a memorable and longest stay in the outdoors yet...

so our trip this past week was in Mt. Pulag, the summit of Mt. Pulag is 2,922 MASL, there were 14 of us in our journey to the summit. the weather was cooperative with our group not to mention that we were lucky than the other groups that have gone up the summit. we stayed in Camp 1 ( Babadak Ranger station on our first day ) after going to the breifing at DENR, the ride was rough, very rough... it was so rough that it was the first time i got a headache during rides. anyhow, we settled and make camp for the night at camp 1, it was raining that night, and our tent was having moisture control problems :D anyways, morning came, and i survived my first camping experince in a tent! wohoooo!!! hahaha :D

and so after eating a heavy breakfast, packed our things, got our strong porters, then we break camp and the long trek started, it was the longest trek i ever had, i think it was more than aprrox. 8 kms climb from camp 1 to camp 3 with no lunch stops in between, just rests and frequently munching cloud 9 and trail food, enjoying the view of Mt. Pulag and endless laughtrips and stories along the way.

so along the way to camp 3, we were greeted by climbers descending the mountain, and locals passing us by while we were trekking (newbie climber here :D) we passed by the mossy forest, then passed by the grasslands and alas! after several hours of trek, Camp 3!!! we settled our things, maked camp and got some rest... there was an optional sunset assualt, but due to bad lighting conditions, we just rested from the long trek we had :D

Fastforward to day 3 sunrise summit assault >> at the summit, it was FOGGYYYY!!!! :( anyhow, i did get some sunrise shot, but not that grand due to the fog... also, we did not get to see the sea of clouds at the summit due to the heavy fog, on the brighter side, we made it safe up to the summit and made it home safely also, and i survived my first Mountain Climb! hahaha :D and survived my first camping :D

The climb was a great experience for me, while descending Mt. Pulag, i was recording in my mind how granduer natures design was, i was thingking how few persons only see the beauty of that mountain, how one needs to slow down things in the busy stressful urban life, that you get to share these things and experience with friends and exchange exoerineces with them.

I salute our Team CL11 for conquering Mt. Pulag, and the fact that we were prepared to endure all that for the passion and the addiction to landscape photography :D

Till the next adventure guys and gals

Ingatz to all :D

PS. well... As for the 6 elements, its the grasslands, the mossy forest, the mountains you see, the sea of clouds, yourself, and your compainions during the climb :D (it's the 6 elements as per Me! :D have a nice Climb :D)

Year Ender notes for 2010

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Year Ender notes for 2010

the days of the year 2010 are numbered, as we count down its just less than 2 days and 2010 will expire, but the memories of it will remain as usual hahaha :D

i remember, it was a slow start at the beginning of 2010, as recession was still crawling all over the region, but i think, we held on well, for us Filipinos and for most of my colleagues and friends, i think we did a pretty good job making it thru 2010, were resilient, what can i say more :D

for my side of the story... i started with a new company... again.. and the trend of my tenure in a company is getting shorter and shorter, hahaha, although my bosses that hired me migrated to another work... but that's ok :) got to meet new friends at work, expand my network, also met new early waking late sleeping addiktus laugthtripping trek and nature loving and adventurous landscape photographer buddies (you know who you are! ) nice to have met and shoot/shot with you guys, got to discover new places in EU for a span of two weeks namely Brugge, Belgium, Paris, Amsterdam, Ghent (still backlogged on PP'ing photos for this EU trip) of course never forget the Crashing waves at Aurora and the amazing sunrise we had in Quezon!.... hope we can keep this up guys! :D good to see also good friends tied the knot! and having little versions of themselves :D... to cut the story short... all is good in 2010 at least for me, i do also hope you had a good 2010 year to.


i would like to propose a toast...

for the Man Above that always provides (Thank You!)
for a good year to come
for the new friends that well meet
for the hardships that we'll overcome
for the new places that well discover
for the increase in our salaries that we'll recieve (hopefully....)
for the new opportunities that we'll have
for the memories that we'll create
and for a Great 2011

KAMPAI!!!!! :D

*drinks bottled water in office* :P

Happy New Year!!! :D


I'm Having good vibes for this coming 2011 :D


* photo above is taken at Mag-asawang Bato Pagbilao Quezon in Monochrome... and hopes we can be resilient like these when problems arises*

hello mr. sun :D

its been a while since i updated this blog :D, kahit papaano, malagyan ko naman ng june post tong blog na ito :D what has happend this june?... well it has'nt happend yet but it's sure that we'll have a NoyBi government.. oh well..., let's give this new government a chance, who knows, maybe it will be a start of a big change :D

anyhow... when i wake up in sunny mornings, i could'nt help but smile .. squinting facing the sun (with the "muta" and everything :P), morning person... maybe..., masarap matulog, who doesnt like sleep, it recharges us from a days work, refreshes us to battle another day, pero sana.. dont over do it, baka di na tayu magising, :P (*knock on wood* joke lang :D). Thanking for another sunny morning that we sometimes ignore... :D

this month, was kinda slow in a way....even my blog reflects it as this has only one entry for june... pero i dont mind things being slow, sometimes, being slow will let you appreciate more the things that revolves around your life and show you things that you've left behind while living in this fast paced life that were in. It can show you things that you left while we're scramming to get to the days material goal.

what i'm pointing out is take time for the much important things in life...... simple yet confusing, even i am confused sometimes on whats really material and immaterial, not because your satisfied will equate to your happiness.

did i even make sense? :P

photo above is taken at Pink sisters Tagaytay on a early sunday church trip :D

Yun Lang :D

Link to Yun Lang's Vid :D

haaangcuute ni armi! yung lang :P hahaha :D i like the vids old school film's contrasty effect, hinuhunt na naman ako ng film urges ko... diana na ba?... ano na! ? :D. Armi of uDd guested on TrueFaith's newest album release... hmmmm, sana maganda nga yung album :D

it's been raining these past few days, which is kinda cool in a way to ease up the summer heat, but still the summer heat has been stacking up record breaking figures of hot hot hot days... pero cooler days are right just around the corner... i hope :D

and still im having problems feeding video links in my blog to my fb's account grrrr....

well.. tgif tommorow! wohoooo!!!!


yun lang :D

waiting for the bus

interestingly.... google did not just put a modified enhanced googelized picture of pacman for its 30th birthday celebration... they googelized the map of the pacman game! hehehe ala lang, nakulitan lang ako... since nintendo days pa yung last time kong nakapag laro ng pacman, kasama ng mga battle city, galaga at ice climber!!! hahaha :D, anyhow, i think kinalawang na yung pacman skills ko nung nilaro ko yung googelized version, hahaha :P

also.. race results came up on the greenfield sunset run :P as expected.. my split time for a 5K run is around 40 minutes.. what i did not expect was to finish the 10K at 1 hour and 12 minutes plus 2 seconds! :D... at least now, i have a baseline for my future runs... but not sure yet when it will be again...rest muna =/

the weekend was also great! went with good friends to tagaytay for a breakfast food trip, food was good... nahirapan lang ako mamili ng breakfast... sobrang dami kase ng pagpipilian...sa susunod mag wawaffles ako, nyahahaha :D and yung pasalubong ko eh pinapak ng mga utol di man lang ako tinirahan, hahaha :D, one thing i also noticed was... it's not that cold in tagaytay yesterday.. considering its a morning, im expecting a colder breeze than what we have in manila.. but then again... i was dead wrong... but at least its a degree or so cooler compared to manila, or not.. :P

picture with a plane above was captured while "waiting for the bus" along the toll gates :D yep... it's an eheads song.... "...ultraviolet rays like i'm posing for a shot in a magazine... what the hell does it meeeannn?..." actually waiting for the shuttle papuntang office, hehehe, but when i saw the plane... naisip ko tuloy na patapos na ang bakasyon, hinde paren ako nakakahirit ng excursion, hahaha :P



ingatz to all :D

one eyed smiley . )

have you seen it! last night, others saw it, some missed it... in a cloudless night sky it appeared! the moon smiled and venus shined *uy rhyming words!* haha anyhow asteeg ano!

the moon smiled, i smiled back, gotcha! :D, i remembered last year or the year before last year :P literally the constellation smiled back at us earthlings composed of two heavenly bodies and a crescent moon

also happening this week! its jerwin and gina's birthday! kaya masay lagi ang May!!!! :D sana ako naman ilbre nyo, Happy Birthday to you guys! :D


ingatz to all! :D

shadow play

okay... election fever is almost over, wheeew! we know who will our next president starting this year 2010 and for the next 6 years onwards, ( although i did not vote for him, i respect the majority of the votes casted by our countrymen ) and hopefully everything will turn out fine for all of us *help! please!!!!* we get the officials we deserve... haayyyzzzzz....

enough of poor politics here... i've been banned! from running... for atleast a month, doc says i lack stretching, and it turned out to be not as bad as i think *i hope*.. oh well, recover muna, then will be back right at business next month, nyahahaha :P

also, my office laptop has been resurrected, *wohoooo!!!* ... after taking a bath from a half of glass of water in the keyboard area 3 days ago, hehehe, anyhow, it's alive again ang kickin! but i.t. personnel told me that they will still replace the mother board because of some corrosion issue that might happen over time, thanks mr i.t. personnel, *forgot your name sorry :D*

photo above is caught by my phone last week... photo is entitled as "shadow play" :D, na astigan lang ako nung nakita ko how the light played behind the clouds during the sunset, also saw the sunset at a high place that day, sobrang golden! a must see, kaso did not capture it as i was driving along alabang overpass :p... nainggit tuloy ako bigla dun sa mga nakatambay sa manila bay, must have been one awesome sight!

bigla tuloy akong natakam kumain.. si tonipet talaga oh!.. taRaLetsEat! binondo food tip! :D *droooollllllll* :-9


ingatz to all :D

a year wiser :P

yesterday marked my 28th year living in countless blessings from tha Man above, thanks again! why the two names in one birthday cake?... 'coz a day before my birthday, is the birthdate of my sister (pangatlo saming mag kakapatid ) Happy Birthday Cheer lyn!

again, My deepest thanks to those who remembered and greeted, you know who you are,

the cake is a Tiramisu Meltdown Cake! talap! :-9... wag nyo lang damihan, naumay ako bigla sa takam, nyahaha :D

cheers!
ingatz to all :D

loaded as expected

*swoon album (silversun pickups) plays in the background*

First things first... my congratulations again to my friends eric and sockie for having Kandace (their first born child) kahit medyo late ang greetings, better late than never :D. We (with STE pips) attended Kandace baptismal at Batangas last Satuday Morning. Good to see you guys again :D

Also raced that Saturday afternoon at Sta. Rosa, Greenfields Area ( sunset run ) with Mike and Stell and some usual faces in my previous company. The race felt good, i registered on the 10K category. although it's considered as my first official race, ive been running just around our village for more than a year now, so i did not hesitate to register on that category. On the other hand, 2 weeks before the race, i slightly hesistated on the 10K route, because of my slight injury, that the 10K route would aggravate the injury, i even thought and planned on mingling with the 5K race route even but mike said their bib color was different :D so i was stuck to eat my fried chicken on the 10K route haha :D

So there i was... a newbie! on fun run / races, i ran on my usual slow pace that i always used in our village.. no pressure.. i just wanted to finish the 10K without additional injuries. funny thing was, on the first water station... i was expecting a cup of water to be handed to me.. so i passed the fisrt table and the volunteer handed out a blue square sponge *anong gagawin ko dito sa sponge na to? iinom sa sponge?* so i placed the sponge on the table and then saw the pile of water cups and grabbed one... (saka ko na lang na realize na para sa mga pang-basa pala nila ng ulo yata yun or something... hahaha :D )

Cons of the event and the day itself.... the traffic... a heavy... stagnant at nakakagutom na traffic, very weird traffic situation that day! and after the run, we went to tagaytay for dinner and coffee and arrived at home past 2 in the morning :D, its been months since i went to tagaytay, the area has evolved alot! gone are the amkor days that it was just a sprint getway on summer to get to tagaytay for coffee :D

so the goal for the next races.... to finish a race having a pace of 6 mins and 30 secs per km... *gimme 3 months, nyayhahaha.. i hope* :D


*demmnnn... i miss Vigan!!!!*

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Ingatz to all :D

'till it bleeds.... my fingers that is... :P

well... got the new acoustic guitar that i was aiming for!!! wohoooo! thanks to shoq for helping in findin a new one, as to those who have not known what the hell happened to my old blue slim twisted one,... it died... on a suicide mission from the top of our cabinet years years ago, t'was a gift form my dad... :( ... anyhow, got a replacement for it now :D, had fun "breakin' in" the new strings, seems that my calluses are startin to buildup again :D (*mukhang magtatampo muna yung bass hehehe*)

anyhow... still a week to go till the race, and hoping i can finish the run in less than a hour and a half... hehehe, bahala na... slightly trimmed down my runs due to a kinda slight mishap! i hope i wont happen again :P, hoping for the best for next sunday,

as for the calluses in my shutter finger.... am awaiting the filters, yey!!!! an ndx400 and an nd8, sadly, i finally gave in to a decision to fully utilize my uwa (tokina) first before buyin a 12-24 nikkor... or until i get the funds right, haha :D... one drawback will be, ill be stuck up to 18mm only when shooting Near IR, (as ill be using a kit lens for this one)'coz we all know, tokina has a bad reputation for hotspots... oh well, technique first before gears :D

photo above (entitled "shattered") is a shot of a clay pot that my cousin broke in a game they played in batangas. :D

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Happy Easter!

hwooooooh! the loong break is over... bakbakan na naman for a new week ahead. had a great weekend, attended a Grand reunion... with the banners and everything! 'twas a fun gathering.. also met the relatives that i havent met before :D, i think i spent my breaks well... yet, i still lack an out of manila trip... im looking forward to the Caramoan trip hehehe on May!, *Woohoooo!* sana matuloy... Oi Gina... sama ko ha! :D

but... not to fret... this week is also a shorter one... wohooo!, holiday din sa friday, hahaha! :D and im thinking of goin to a UdD gig in sucat BF... this is goin to be a great week! :D

photo above is a relative of mine... i think, i just saw her palying around with her big red ballon and snapped a picture of her, cute kid no? :D

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Happy Easter Everyone!!! :D

ingatz to all :D

yep... i ate it.. :P

Did a visita iglesia with Mike, Stell and co. last Holy Thursday night. A good way to reflect in a way for the good things that have been given to us and things we need on improving spiritually :D We did Seven Churches. Four churches in Makati... St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguiori Church, St. John Bosco Parish church, National Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of La Paz Parish Church, Two in Manila... Malate Church and Binondo Church and the last one in Makati Again, the San Antonio Parish Church and lastly did the station of the cross in BHS (a modern interpretaion exhibit i think)... although the lights were being turned off bacause it was late in the night already.

The cool thing was... in the chruches na dinadayo at crowded, hinde kame nahirapan maghanap ng parking, everytime were nearing a church, parking slots came openly available Just in time for two ('coz were doing a convoy) :D seems that were being guided!... thanking also for the safe trip across Manila :D

anyhow.... ok.. ok.... I ate what I said about not joining run races... I signed up for one, haha! :P my first official race and in a 10K category in the Greenfeild Sunset Run... why not start with a 5K on my first race? 'coz i've been running for over a year now in my own little track in our village and i think i can manage a 10K race, but the question is how fast... i dont have any gauge yet, and hopefully i can make it a little over an hour :D, anyhow, well see on the race hehe :D train train train!

Picture above was my first attemp (3 years ago ) in capturing a morning light using a camera phone, hehe. Did not have a proper camera back then... :D it was in the hills of Baguio, Quezon Hills :D... i badly need a vacation here... :D tara na! Caramoan's anyone?

hoping you all are having a blessed and meaningful Holy Week!
Ingatz to all :D and see you on the track, haha! :P

ayyysus!

went to an admit one gig last wednesday night, saw pedicab, and all
i can say is you really gotta see 'em perform live in a small
venue that encases the sound that they produce, i know they use
electronic effects when listening in their album but i was awed on
how they played around with their live electronic effects that
produces funky, upbeat tempos, and extended echoes of daddy map's
screams, hehehe :D

i saw them live last year perfom a few songs in the 2009 rock
awards with their holloween inspired makeups and costumes, which
in that time, they were the only ones in that theme, hehe kulet no.

second act that night was sugarfree which was then follwed by
peryodiko and another last band, we only finished sugarfree's act
then we just stayed outside to eat some fishballs for some
midnight snack hehe. sensya nga pala shoq and co. that i have to
leave early... madadaya kase kayo, mga walang pasok at 12 noon pa
ang pasok nyo sa trabaho kaya 1 bottle lang ako, hehe

on other topics...

i'm still itching to get an ibanez electric bass pero hinde matuloy
tuloy..... maybe at the end of the year or next year na lang
muna... my reason naman for this month for not getting that bass
ay.... kase inalok ako ng barkada ko ng isang acoustic guitar na
malupet, :P and also i planned to buy that acoustic sa dahilang
ilang years na den akong nawalan ng acoustic guitar, kaya for this
month and the next, i'll still drool for that bass and await my
new acoustic guitar:P Yey! :D


photo above is entitled as "summer highway drive"

till next gig :D
Ingatz to all

night skies

if i recall it correctly, ive taken a shot of the moon last year, i
don't remember the date, but they said that we will see the moon at
its biggest form that time last year, so i took a shot of it. But
this year, just out of the blue, i took another shot of it, ala lang,
when i saw the moon full, i decided to take a shot at it,

and the thing i observed about it while comparing my last years photo
against the recent one is that... the moon always have shown the same
face, same side of the satellite at all times:D cool huh. ala lang :P
all the time, i though it also rotates, hehe so much for science
astronomy 101 :P

never really knew how to spot the different constellations in the
night sky, the only familiar constellation that i can tell easily is
Orion and his Belt because it's the only constellation i can easily
distinguish from the rest when i look up in the sky when im at home.

a good friend once taught us how to spot these constellations, if
your situated on the beach... at night, looking afar in the sea
horizon, you can also observe during a span of hours how these
constellation rises and sets down again...

lasty, its Earth Hour at march 27 8:30 pm local time, it's not just
our country who will be participating but others as well on the 27th
of March 8:30 pm also at their own local time. Let us not just care
for the environment during the yearly Earth Hour, lets do our share
everyday :D

nga pala... it'll be my bestfriends birthday tommorow... Happy
Birthday Pau!!! :D so kelan libre, hehe :P

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till next post
Ingatz to all :D

out of place, out of time, out of words.....

Missed the urbandub gig last friday, :P... ok ok, i'll stop
pointing fingers haha... :D

I don't feel like sleeping yet coz it'll be Monday when I wake up.
Not that I hate Monday's, everyday's a Blessing... remember that!

anyways...
It's been a fun week for me overall, smiles never fails to lighten up
anyone's day. Also... it's almost a week now that I'm stuck on LSS
on some bonus track :P and I keep o repeating and repeating that
particular track :D... i dont know, might be the soothing voice and
sounds of the instruments that keeps me hanging on to it.

photo above is a snaphot of the Lighthouse in Cape Bojeador...
located there upnorth :P it was taken a year ago during our 3 day
Northern escape :D

till next :P
ingatz to all :D

caught in between being logically right or theoretically happy

Congrats to the both of you, Luther and Mechiel, Many Blessings to
come to your family. Their wedding was held at Bauan, Batangas. Met
up also with good friends and colleagues from my previous company.
Good to see you guys again! :D

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Anyhow...

Currently stuck on this thought for a week now, I
think we all know what is wrong from right... and of course doing
the right thing logically comes first into mind (for some of us :D),
but how about the times that you feel you need to deviate from that
norm just to satisfy your selfishness, would you choose to be doing
the right thing? what do you think will you gain... a lot? or....
a lot less.... It's like you're going 50 on the streets and you see
a yellow light blinked on the intersection ahead, you know you can
make it across with ease even if you don't step on the pedal, but
it's a yellow light.... you should be slowing down... right?

Life is simple.... we're the ones that just complicate it.

I think I'll try to do it both... simple right? hahaha :D


Ingatz to all :D