Popped Tarts

90: Bridge

solo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:21:20 +0000

The bridge at Fontana

This is just one of those random scenes you see while walking that’s worth taking a picture of.

I’m glad to say that I didn’t use a tripod for this shot. Meaning, I was able to hold myself still. Enough to capture a sharp image. The lights were nice and there weren’t any people around. Looking at this photo brings a sort of peacefulness.

89: People at the Festival

solo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:03:34 +0000

Huge crowd for the Hot Air Balloon Festival at Clark held last weekend.

88: Cause people have been nice enough to tell me I got slimmer

solo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:41:22 +0000

Here’s a photo of me! I post pictures of myself on rare occasions. The mirror’s old so.. well you see that there are some brown stuff reflecting. Anyway, this was taken at Fontana. Cause I was a bit bored and I liked what I was wearing. So here’s a photo!

Mind you, I’m like 5 ft, 6 or 7 inches tall. Looking at this photo makes me realize that I am not fat, harhar. But I still have a few flabs to lose. Let’s go exercise! :)

Good morning from the Philippines!

87: HOW

solo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:36:36 +0000

The awesome magician and his assistant at Fontana

Seriously. HOW? Hypnotism?

There was another trick before that that made my jaw drop and say “Holy shit” — a dog cam from the fire. Wasn’t able to take a photo of that since they moved too fast. But THIS. HOW.

87: Hot Air Balloons

solo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:19:16 +0000

Hot air balloons from the Hot Air Balloon Festival last weekend.

First of many. :)

86: 2 Shots from the UP Fair

solo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:48:44 +0000

Just sharing two of the many photos I took during the University of the Philippine’s fair. :)

Franco

Marc Abaya for Kjwan

I did this for free. Or I’d like to think of it as an X-deal. I get free access to the concert in exchange for photos taken. Yup. It’s a pretty good deal since I love going to concerts, listening to bands and doing my photography at the same time.

What I would give to actually be invited to shoot photos of Paramore for their concert here in the Philippines on the 9th of March.

85: Fireworks

solo — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:29:27 +0000

I’m not good with fireworks. Or at least because this is only the few times I get to try fireworks photography. I know that I’ll be drooling at fireworks photos when I go stumble them. At least I have a few neat shots. It’s a start.

The house right beside us really spend for their fireworks and we were lucky to have that since we didn’t have much of the pretty ones.

The smaller sparks remind me of Howl’s Moving Castle when the stars were dancing and falling to the earth. They can be little faeries too.

Here’s a sort of failed shot. I took this at f-stop 29 and 10seconds shutter speed. Wrooooong calculation. I’m typing it here for reminders when I get a chance to shoot fireworks again.

But despite that, I like how it ended up looking like some vortex from hell (cause it’s red and shining from below).

Oh, cool! There’s a heart! I didn’t notice that until now. Awesome possum.

This one’s one of ours so we were right beneath it. Making the image smokey.

The last two images are my favorite. Their colors got so vibrant and I like their forms.

I wish I had more prettier fireworks photos. I had a hard time setting up the balance between aperture and shutter speed. Meh. I guess I got kinda greedy that I wanted the shutter to be at more than 10seconds. That was a mistake, har. At least I’ve taken note.

Got to look for more events that have fireworks!

New Year’s resolution:

To use empowering words and be encouraging to other people.

To speak better of others.

And to learn patience and be more under control (especially when it comes to my emotions).

84

solo — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:32:17 +0000

I took out my colored pencils after the longest time and this is what I ended up drawing first.

I’ve been feeling emotional again. I’m not sure if it’s because that time of the month is coming or because of recent (and occurring) events happening.

I do need to start getting on with my life again.

Fear + etc.

solo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:54:47 +0000

I’m being paranoid right now because I feel like I haven’t been progressing on my photography. =( I don’t know if it’s how I’m not seeing things differently or maybe just an excuse to buy new equipment. It’s making me feel stagnant.

On other things, I’ve recently started dreaming about money pouring in on me. I’ve finally admitted to myself and to everyone else that I WANT MONEY. I want money because I want to travel and photograph. I used to not admit this to myself for thinking that other people might think ill of me wanting too much money. But this thing is so natural that I wonder now why I was afraid to tell the world of this need. Hm.

On another note, (yes, I seem to have a few things up my sleeve that I’d like to share with everyone) I am now a registered voter. Seriously, world, it is a big achievement for me and I would like to recognize my brother for this feat for if it not for his company, I wouldn’t have gotten through this.

I don’t have any photograph to show you how long the lines you’ve to queue just to get registered. My brother and I actually made it a 2-day trip to the City Hall because we get hungry in the line and spending 5 or probably more hours in line with an empty stomach and in the heat of the afternoon is a big NO to the both of us.

In the end, it paid to wake up earlier than usual to fall in line and get registered as voter. I have finally done something good for my country.

83

solo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:48:42 +0000

Panoramic view of Tali Beach

Just a teaser. Here’s a panoramic shot of a beach we went to a couple of weeks back. The weather was perfect for everything. I love blue skies during out-of-town trips cause the water in the sea reflects the colors beautifully.