This was from the 3rd roll of B&W film I develop over the weekend. As usual scanned the negs and this is my favorite from that roll. Can't wait to print this the traditional way inside the darkroom which will be the coming weekend.

To the 2nd roll

Just finish my second roll of B&W film and last weekend was able to develop it and did the contact prints. Was not satisfy with the outcome of the contact prints the first one i did this onecame out a little bit gray scale actually I have to do it twice. My trainer said maybe its the exposure time in the enlarger but he told me we can fix it during the printing process. To satisfy myself and to see the outcome of my shots, I scan the negs the next day. Upon reviewing it my computer screen was fairly satisfied with the outcome well these are my chosen shots from the roll were I did a little tweaking in Photoshop.

And I would like to thank my models for gamely posing in front of my Camera.

Dark Room Experience

I'm into Photography for quite sometime now (9 years ) from my first point and shoot to my DSLR. I've shot different mediums. Print Film, Slides, Black and White, now Digital. But I never set foot in a Dark room until recently.
Our Camera club offers a Black and White developing and printing course yearly so I took advantage of this and enrolled in this class. My main reason of enrolling is not to learn to shoot in B&W but to learn how to develop my own pics. My usual workflow in shooting Black and White, after I'm done with the rolls of film is I drop it off to my favorite custom lab to have it developed then Scan to Digital File then do some tweaking on the computer before printing it or posting it on the web.
But now I will do the developing itself in the dark room well after some lecture in the procedure of developing your film we do it now real time. The challenging part of this process is placing your exposed film on the developing reel done in complete darkness. Then we mix the chemicals (Developer,Stopbath and Fixer) making sure that we got the correct mixture and temperature. Then the developing process is done. After we developed the film its time to do some contact printing so we can choose which we will print to submit as our project. Doing contact print is fun as I experienced to have your hand wet with chemicals and the joy you feel when you see the prints you made. I posted a scan copy of the contact prints I've done.
Can't wait till next week when we do some strip testing and do our final print.

Street Photography

One of the subjects I look photgraphing here in Dubai aside from Landsapes are people in the street. As much as possible I like to shoot people in Candid situation which is difficult to do because if they caught you doing that you will be in big trouble. So its better to ask permission to make life easier for me.

Well among the portrait I shot so far this is one of my Favorite. I'm planning to shoot more people here and to have a collections of their portrait and hopefully in the future I can shoot candids and get away with it.

Desert Sunset

Sunset shot. Taken when we went on Desert Safari the other day. The sun was so round with a cast of red as it hide on the desert sand.

Dubai skyline view from Makthum Bridge. For more pictures click here


After over a year of Saving, planning I finally got my First DSLR I'm totally excited because now I can shoot digital with the camera I want. I'm using a couple of compact digi cam and a Film SLR (which I'm planning to keep if I want to shoot B&W and Transparancies.) The next day after I bought it I went around the City to shoot some pictures. Well I'll guess be shooting more of it as the days goes by.

My New Toy Car

I'm starting now another Toy Car collection as I left my current collection in Manila. Saw a shop in Al Attar Centre in Downtown Karama i Dubai which sells Model Toy Car cheaper than in Manila but its Freestanding no Stand No Glass Case.
For my first collection got a Black Mini Copper. Its now placed on top of my Office computer.
The next Car I'm thinking of getting is the Classic VW Beetle.

Arabic Burger King

Just one of the Restaurant with Arabic version more to come.

Just came from the meeting of the Photography club I’m trying to join. Well I presented my portfolio to the guild members. I only presented only 10 photos since I did not bring a printed copy here in Dubai and printing here is damn expensive.

Well my portfolio passed and according to the person who screened my portfolio that I’m overqualified to attend a basic class (which I feel so hehehe).

Well they told me to help the org the club in whatever I can help them well I’m willing to help them that’s the main purpose of me joining them.

Well I’m now an official member of Lightform Filipino Photographers Guild - Dubai.

Hello Dubai

Some of the first pictures I shot in Dubai this is was shot the day after I arrive as my boss gave me a day off from work. While my wife is in the office I took the oppurtunity to walk around the city took some pictures.

Sunset at 35000 feet

Guess what I shot during my 8 hour long flight to Dubai.

Just couldn't resist the color of the sky.

Noah's Ark

Always see this structure when passing Guadalupe Bridge on my way to Makati. Have a chance to take closer look at the structure recently and take a shot at it. I don't know if this is still a working refinery or its already abandoned building.

Tried a little experiment deliberately moving my camera while shooting

in slow shutter speed and usinf flash to kinda freeze the car.

Shooting at the back of a Cab. Should have use a flash to illuminate the driver and the dashboard but for safety purposes I decided not to use it.

Some stuff in the house

This are the picture of some old/antique stuff in my parents house. We can call it antique since most of this stuff dated way back since I was a Kid so thats over 30 years ago.

I thought in shooting this stuff in Black and White to give justification on its age.

From what used to be a view all along Roxas Blvd then somebody begin dumping land fill in the water so the view only stretches from US Embassy to Manila Yacht Club. Hope this kilometer stretch of great view will remain for years to come.

Last Sunday I attended a Wedding Portraiture seminar held at Intramuros.
After the seminar around 5 pm i decided to go to Manila Cathedral to hear Sunday Mass and take the oppurtunity to take some pictures.

What are they looking at?

Ninoy Aquino, Evilio Javier and the rest waiting for the Manila Bay Sunset

Car Audio seen only in the Philippines

Shot from the FX I was riding yesterday. They used the CD Rom drive from a Computer as part of the Car Audio system. I've seen Discman being used in Cars (used one myself) as there are Car kits being sold in the market. But I never seen a CD rom drive used in Cars basically they are for desktop pc. If I'm not mistaken this are the internal type.Another Filipino ingenuity.(Sorry for the blur pic hard to shoot in a shaky moving vehicle)

I ask myself what are the stuff or things we keep that last for a longtime.Of course there are things that we keep for a longtime (like our houses, appliances etc) but how bout little things that were just surprise after a long time it still exist.
For me this pencil is one of them. I have this pencil with me for over 20 years. I remember I got this pencil when I was in first year college way back 1985 (wow long time).This pencil survive 6 years in college (I did most of my plates using this pencil). 14 years of work experience (which is 10 companies-including 3 years of work overseas). 5 Philippine presidents. It outlast 2 computers, 6 Cellphones, 4 PDAs2 Cameras, 2 Video players and 3 Television Sets. It practically oulast almost all of my stuff I can probably think of.
Well to this day I'm using this pencil as you can see on the pictures (It survive a lot of battles).
Heres for another 20 years hehehe.

A wild dive to the water

One wednesday afternoon while walking along Manila Bay saw this group of children swimming. I thought its a nice scene to shoot upon seeing me aiming my camera at them they try to impress by doing some exhibition summer saulting in diving to the water took some shot6 at them and this picture is my favorite.

Some data of the shoot.

Camera: Sony cybershot DSC-W5
ISO: 100
Shutter speed 1/250
Apperture f10
WB: Sunny

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Last Dec 26 to Dec 30 2005. The 2005 Pyro Olympics was held at the Esplanade in Pasay City. Were 10 Countries (I think) showcase their 30 minute fireworks display Luckily for me the event was held just in front of our office. I was able to sneak out during my break so I can watch the show and take some photos.

Since I work on a night shift I wasn't able to go to the event site itself to get a good vantage point. so I have to content myself in my position at the office parking lot. Heres what I got.

This CD features the music of the Eraserheads as performed by some of the country's Rock and Pop artists. Almost all of them did great justification of the Eraserheads music

The CD has 17 tracks of their hits among my Favorites were

Magasin -sung by Paolo Santos

With a Smile - sung by South Border

Ligaya - sung by Kitchie Nadal

Pare ko - sung by Sponge Cola

Huwag mo nang itanong - sung by M.Y.M.P.

Ang huling el bimbo - sung by Rico J. Puno

This songs and other tracks from this CD will definitely be included i my iPod.