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Shadowland. // January 22, 2010

I was on my way to the library when I noticed the shadows that the signage made and found them really pretty. I had to walk across a wide expanse of space to retrieve my camera from where I left my stuff¹ and when I came back out, the sun was in hiding.

So, I waited for it to come out.

Hi, clouds. You’re real pretty, but get outtatheway!

And then, the sun came out.

Pretty.

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¹ Lesson Learned: You must bring any sort of recording device wherever you go. Think of everything that you will miss!

 

September Five was a Portrait Saturday. // September 5, 2009

If you’ve been around for a while, you might remember a post I made a few weeks (months?) ago where I talked about my friend, Gabby’s portrait project called “These Portraits”. Today, we did a different, although also portrait-related, shoot. I took some behind-the-scene shots. A preamble to this preamble: I was in a pretty nasty mood the day before. So, when I pulled myself out of the house, I resolved to take a few photos. I sort of fell out of the whole photography thing (for reasons unknown even to me), but taking photos today, even if they were kind of dumb, made me feel really nice.

I think I’m bringing the camera around a bit more often. I miss they way I used to see the world, when I held a camera.

My Flickr • Gabby’s Flickr

Paulina Paige.

Gabby and her medium-format camera. Drool.

Yay.

The rest of the photos: Continue reading September Five was a Portrait Saturday….

 

September Post No. 1 // September 1, 2009

This means several things:

1. Today is the first day of Hogwarts, aka my real school.
2. Today is the birthday of someone who will not be named because I am ashamed that I know this birthday. Ahem.
3. Today is the beginning of my birthmonth!

As such, I got this pretty stupid, ambitious idea to blog here everyday for the whole month of September. They’re not going to be big-ass, profound posts, just random what’s-its from day-to-day. Obviously, it’s not going to just be stupid things everyday either. Just. I’ll just be around more is all. Yay.

So, yesterday, I bought a Flickr Pro account. I had been thinking about getting one for a while, but kept on putting it off so I finally asked my dad if I could borrow his credit card and he obliged. After entering the information, and confirming my order, I realized that I probably couldn’t afford it right now (given that my current laptop is still being paid for. By me. HEH.) but then I justified this (seemingly) impulsive purchase by telling myself that it’s a birthday gift. To myself. So, I spent a few hours yesterday updating it with old photos that I had lost the will to put up on my Multiply account, which used to house all my photos.

Because I am a needy loser, here are a few of them:

After tinkering with the interface a bit more, I realized that it actually was a good purchase, since there was so many things you could do for a relatively small amount of money. And I don’t know, it seemed really useful to me, since I plan on hosting my photos over there from now on.

I actually missed taking nicer pictures when I was looking through my old things.

In case anybody wants to look at it, here is my Flickr account: PRESIDENTS. Add me if you have one, too. I only have 28 contacts, so far. It’s getting a little lonely.

 

These Portraits! // July 31, 2009

I have a backlog of exhibit posts, but I wanted to post about These Portraits, which is a project my friend Gabby has been doing for the past few months. What exactly is These Portraits about?

Here’s the gist, for each portrait I take, I donate P20 to Rock Ed Philippines’ Rock The Rehas project.

It’s super-cool because a) it’s for a good cause, and b) she’s a really good photographer. We were supposed to shoot today, but stupid things got in the way, so I’ll post about the project instead. Here’s a bunch of portraits she took for These Portraits:

One of my favorite photographers, for real.

Since our plans for today, fell through, I ended up drinking coffee and educating myself about current events, via the newspaper. Also, mostly driving around the city with my grandpa. It’s his favorite past-time, aside from watching boxing matches or UFC. Check out his cool digs:

Plaid on plaid FTW.

I love him a lot.