When I’m bored,  I just drive myself to places and shoot. Last Monday, I drove to La Mesa Ecopark just to shoot some flora and fauna and to just kill some time before the color coding suspension ends while I was there. Entrance fee did cost me 50php. There weren’t much blooms when I went there and sadly, they changed the look of the pond. The boats were gone, so I didn’t do any wide angle shots.

What I enjoyed was the small butterfly hatchery. For 30php, you can shoot all the butterflies within that enclosure. I went on a Monday so I got the whole enclosure for myself hahaha…. Might have been a good idea but I’m not really into insects. Upon entering, I got freaked out with the dozens of butterflies that swarmed me.
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It has been some time since I last dropped by a Krispy Kreme outlet and try out their new doughnuts. Looks like there’s something new prior to the Yahoo! Purple Hunt- the Yahoo! Purple Doughnut.
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Me and my family had dinner at a Shabu-shabu restaurant in Harbour Square last night. The Shabu-shabu there was delicious but I still consider the Shabu-shabu selection at Gloria Maris the best. I really enjoy dinners with my family, much of the enjoyment comes with bonding with my cousins as we cook our food and just dump everything into the boiling pot and just mix everything.
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It’s been a while since I went to Antipolo City. The last time I went there was when I had my car blessed around June last year. There are only two places in which we usually walk to in Antipolo. It’s the church and the market just near the church. I’ve been wanting to take random candid shots of people interacting in the marketplace, but it was just too obvious to take pictures with a DLSR. But then this time it was different. I used a wide angle Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens attached to my 1000d body. It was really funny using such lens to take street shots…it’s big with the lenshood so I had to keep my lenshood in the car instead. Hehehe..
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Last week, me and my classmates at the Advanced Photography Sessions with Sir Jo Avila were taught how to shoot products like the coffee jar above. My first product shoot with all the flash setup and all!  Anyone can just shoot products just like that. As we have learned during the session, the challenge is to really make your shot stand out against a simple background or setup. There are really a lot of technical stuffs involved to shoot any product. Playing with light can be tough since you have to position the light in such a way that the elements to the product really stand out. Getting results like the picture above took us quite some time…hmm, actually a lot of time! Hahaha
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I got bored today and I realized that I haven’t created a Poladroid set on my Flickr Account, so I decided to start with some random photos from my laptop and dragged them to create Poladroids. That free program is one of my mainstays at my dock really. I’m so happy with it, isn’t it obvious on the picture? :p hahaha… LOL.
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I almost forgot to share this to this .com of mine. Last March I attended a two-day landscape class in Caliraya, Laguna. One of our activities was infrared shooting in a Japanese Garden just near our place of stay. We arrived before lunch, ate some snacks and fired away under the intense heat of the sun at around noon.
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