Life’s Lessons

Been meaning to post this last week but I got so hooked with other things. Now I don’t wanna let this day pass without bragging the photos in frames that are now temporarily hanging by our living room wall. I said temporary because we still need to rearrange it so the 6 frames would fit. For now, only these 3 are displayed so far.

Taken at Vanishing Island, Island Garden City of Samal on November 16, 2008

Taken at Isla Reta Beach Resort, Talicud Island on September 29, 2008

Taken at Sta. Ana Wharf on September 13, 2008

These three are still waiting to be hanged. Hope we could put it in place soon.

The three photos above are taken as follows (from L-R):

Sta. Ana Wharf, Davao City on September 13, 2008

Sun City, Davao City sometime in August 2008 (I am too lazy to check for the exact date)

Sta. Ana Wharf on the same date as above. (this photo was taken by my classmate in Basic Photography Class)

Most of the photos are printed straight out of the camera because I am not fan of processed in photoshop landscape and seascape images (read: digitally enhancing the image’ colors) while the boatman was cropped to portrait orientation.

Ace said I should have put my watermark on the photos so people will know that I took those. Well, on the next prints, I will surely put my watermark.

The 12×18 prints I ordered from ArtsCow 2 months ago and been sitting here for weeks before we finally got it framed. The prints are free and I just paid for the shipping fee at around $8. Great steal, right? We got the frames from SM Homeworld for PhP250 each (more than $5). I love SM Homeworld’s frames and would definitely go back there for more (for our 8×10 portraits that I ordered end of last month). Can’t wait for those pictures to arrive from the mail!

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After being satisfied with the 12×18 prints that I ordered from Artscow, Ace suggested I’d get another batch of prints that we’ll frame. I decided I’ll have our portraits printed but in monochrome and here’s the 5 photos that I ordered from Artscow. After playing with Adobe Lightroom, here’s the processed photos that I am expecting to receive in the next few weeks. We’ll have it framed and hang in our bedroom wall. So I need to set aside the budget for 5 8×10 photo frames next payday.

Nice? You’d be the judge.

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Last week’s entry was during our first weekend with our DSLR so I will continue posting in this meme from the oldest photos we have in file.

I and Che2x went home last May 22, 2008 for the death anniversary of our mother will be the following day. On Saturday, one of my cousin’s daughter celebrated her birthday at the ONLY inland resort in our hometown – Kabacan. Waterland Resort is actually the second swimming pool in town next to Garagan Spring Resort but the latter closed from business years ago. Our town is located in the middle of Central Mindanao and the nearest beach is in Digos City or if others could dare, somewhere in Parang, Maguindanao I guess. So imagine people in Kabacan go crazy over swimming resorts regardless of the source of water as long as it is a swimming pool, people won’t mind.

Here’s some of my cousins, nephews and nieces….

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Finally! The long wait is over! After months of painstakingly uploading all our photos to my flickr account, just today uploading is finished. Yahoo! So the next photos that will be taken using our cam will be directly uploaded to flickr. It doesn’t need to sit in the computer’s memory and wait for their turn to be uploaded. I’m wrong when I said it will take me forever, it only took me half a century to finish it.LOL. Now the next project is to arrange the photos in sets so I can make them available for public viewing.

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For the second time, I ordered prints from Artscow at the last minute using my 2nd to the last free 100 4×6 prints. I thought I can’t make it because uploading photos is too slow considering that my photos are within 3-4MB each. Too lazy to resize the photos so the original ones are uploaded. At the 11th hour, I was able to finish uploading and placing my order so I got the free prints and payed only for the shipping cost. The next morning, I received an email from Artscow that my order is on the way. That’s fast enough! Maybe next week I’ll be able to receive those prints. So excited!

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Yay! I received my first 100 4″x6″ free prints from Artscow.com last Friday. After 17 days of waiting (including Saturdays and Sundays)…finally the pouch arrived and I was so happy to see the prints. Indeed great colors and I love it so much! I only paid $5.99 for shipping fee (upon order) and PhP35 for the custom fee upon delivery (according to the postman everything have custom fees now including small parcels). I was just curious to see the print quality so months after my registration with them, I finally decided to give it a try by printing our photos during our trip to Camiguin Island and Cagayan de Oro City with some friends last year.

Since I am satisfied with the prints’ color and quality, I will be ordering more prints soon. There’s a lot of freebies actually but what I can afford and wanted to have are just prints so I need to utilize those freebies while they are still available for grabs in my account. Wanna avail of the tons of freebies and discounts? Register at Artscow.com and enjoy printing tons of your photos, make personalized photo gifts and a whole lot more!

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I realized my blogs are becoming photo-less. What’s the use of having a camera if I don’t post photos? Blame that to my laziness in resizing and watermarking photos.

The past months we’ve been thru a lot of activities. Now I will be going over it all and I hope I won’t get lazy “again” to resize and watermark photos. Now I am not actually meaning to post these but because I was “again” reminded by one fellow FPS member to send him a copy of these photos so I might as well post it here.

Last Kadayawan Festival, Canon Philippines sponsored a Photographer’s Summit and Photographer’s Night rolled into one with Mr. John K. Chua as the resource person. I’ve heard a lot about him but haven’t actually seen his work. The crowd were all amazed at all the photos he has taken since his forte is advertising and got his own digital photography business named adphoto. Oh well, what can I say, he has the “eye”, he is creative, he got the BEST gears – and that’s CANON (walang sinabi ang Nikon…hahaha)! I didn’t know that the photos I am looking at in print ads years ago until today are all the work of art of the master photographer himself. Since it seems a once in a lifetime experience to be brushing elbows with the master photographer, we asked him to pose with us.

I suppose you could guess where’s Mr. John in the photo. Yes, he’s that “old” man with expertise in photography honed by the golden years he spent playing with his camera. At his age, he is still as active as a young photograher (or should I say, more active than us.*lol*).

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Finally, Kadayawan festival is over so I am back to blogging. Been in haitus for almost 3 days because we are out in the streets to shoot. Last Friday, I don’t feel like shooting for the Indak-Indak (street dancing) and the Pamulak sa Dalan (floral float parade) but after attending the Canon Photography Summit with master photographer Mr. John Chua as the resource person, I was inspired to shoot the following day. Hence, I and Ace were up early last Saturday and made it to the streets before the event started. Yesterday was another looong day as we shoot for the Floral Float Parade and hit the mall and agro-trade fair afterwards. Such a really tiring 2 days in a row but it was all worth it because I and Ace got to spend the photo opps together. Photos to follow once I’m done doing all my pending tasks.

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I and Ace joined the Canon Image Nation Photo Safari conducted last Sunday at Gaisano Mall of Davao which was participated in by around 50 Canon users both amateurs and professionals. Actually, I am hesitant to join but Ace is so persistent so I gave in. The photo safari’s theme were only given before the event started and we had around 4 hours to shoot for the 4 different categories. Just imagine walking endlessly at the mall area looking for subjects that could fit in to the category given. Since we only have one camera, we took turns in getting a photo for our own entries. My feet really hurt for endless walking (the result of not having enough exercise) while Ace really enjoyed the activity. Read more… »

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