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!

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.

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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