view thru my eyes

Just sent my photos to news outlets. I had a terrible time yesterday as Internet service caused a headache. It's not that they are way behind here but the service provider I am using was terrible yesterday.

Photos on top were from last Friday. Ilonggos have a dedicated passion for Sto Nino, especially at this time of the year when the child Jesus is adored.

I'll try to post some more photos here when I get back to Metro Manila. I will be exploring other parts of the island in the last two days.

# posted by Paul Mata : Monday, January 29, 2007  1 comments

a Happy New Year to everyone...

I finally got to shoot a New Year fireworks spectacle. I situated myself at Makati City that night. My brother from the US was tagging along with me.

I had planned to shoot the fireworks from a flyover along Edsa so I could capture the skyline as well. But the location of the fireworks was not desirable, so the option for most photographers that night was to shoot somewhere else (namely, in Manila).

I stood my ground by staying in Makati.

It was relatively a nice shoot. The fireworks was announced to last for 20 minutes.

The thing about not shooting for the past week though was that I failed to check on my equipment, particularly the batteries.

So, as the fireworks was about to end, my camera's battery emptied out on me.I had transferred to another street and I had left my spare battery in the car which was about a 150 meters away from me.

I had 30 seconds to run back to the car. And that 30 seconds turned out to be the last 30 seconds of the fireworks display.

# posted by Paul Mata : Saturday, January 06, 2007  0 comments