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I kind of dropped the ball back when I said I’d post 100 pictures from the Philippines trip, ten at a time. I’m going to try and finish that off within the next week.

Slightly late, but it’s been on my list of things to do and I needed to cross something off.

Excluding anything from the actual anniversary ceremony (which are simply too important), these are my favorite pictures from the Philippines trip. For this week, I’m posting one per day. At the time, I was still jet lagged, so I fell asleep in the afternoon and woke up in the middle of the night. It was one of those moments where I knew I better take pictures or I’d regret it later. Here’s my post about that day, where I use the word cacophony and recall a ridiculous dream.

Also, I had no tripod. I used a t-shirt to keep the camera steady and placed it on the balcony ledge. That’s a Shoe Mart in the background on top of the hill on the left side.

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I don’t think I’ve posted these yet. We took these in the summer at Kerry Park. I don’t think I was supposed to smile. As far as I remember, I set my camera up on a tripod, I used a flashlight from my car to shine on the person to help with the auto-focus, then I switched it to manual focus and opened the shutter for 30 seconds. While it was open, I used Paul’s camera to set off flashes from different angles. My guess is that’s the exact process professionals use.

Featuring a member of USA’s national Throw, Hike, Surf team.

Look at him. He loves it.

Went on a field trip with my print production class to Scanner, a print press place. To sum it up, there was a bunch of expensive, industrial equipment, and half of the stuff just isn’t used because the industry is mostly digital these days. For the most part, it was impressive (pun intended), but I’m still slightly disappointed because I was expecting something more like this video (featuring Jerry).

Jason sees something very intense. I promise I was there.

I tried using my fisheye lens again. I’m starting to like it more and more. I’m improving with the manual focus, but I’m still nowhere close to good. Only like 1 shot in 20 is really sharp, but it sure feels good when it happens. It seems to work well for parties. The pictures were very warm to begin with because I had the wrong white balance about half the time. I don’t know if this is much of an improvement, but I tried.

Yeaaaaaah Marvin grab us a piece!

I hope you enjoyed my miniature poem. I feel like these two pictures worked best in black and white. I could say something like it brings out the texture of the concrete but it’s mostly because the fluorescent lights in the foreground blow out the pictures and it’s even worse when you can see that the lights are orange. I have three more in color, so um stay tuned!

There’s a dog camouflaged in the first picture. Heartbreaker. These are all still taken from the trip up Baguio. The last two are at the Lion’s Head, which is up the mountain and sort of signals the entrance to Baguio.

I shot 999 and I’m hoping to post 100, ten at a time. A lot are going to be from the trip to Baguio, shot out the window of a van. Here’s a little bit of jeepney wikipedia:

Jeepneys are a popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. They were originally made from US military jeeps left over from World War II and are well known for their flamboyant decoration and crowded seating. They have also become a symbol of Philippine culture.

Jason presents the city to investors or something like that. We got lucky at one point and got to ride the monorail by ourselves. And a few pictures from a store possibly similar to what OJ robbed.

Shot these in the car as the Luxor beam got brighter and brighter. I was kind of a 9 out of 10 in excitement. I thought this was a pretty good idea but I guess I didn’t have the shutter set fast enough.

1. XRW (Extreme Rock Walking)
2. Old kids
3. Me cutting onions
4. Paul holding a worm
5. Tubo cutting a worm
6. Glenn rowing
7. Someone told another funny
8. Avara Kadabra. Unforgivable
9. Old kids and young kids

1. Baseball
2. Nude sign
3. Bart Simpson (By Tubo hahahahahha)
4. Guy with t-shirt
5. Supposed to be a butler with a bow tie
6. Saturn
7. Spider
8. Bomb
9. Another spider
10. Earth
11. Real mature Cess

Middle of summer. More toward the end. August-ish. I’m supposed to be giving her a rose in that picture if it doesn’t make sense. And I thought my pose was cooler at the time than it actually was. No big deal.

The interstate 15 scenery from San Diego to Las Vegas is non-existent. Good bonding time though. Just never do that drive alone. Right at the start of the trip we switched to AM to hear the traffic and we heard, “Car fire on I-15. All lanes closed.” In the second to the last picture, Jason is doing what all safe drivers do–applying eye drops. Slightly worse than texting on the danger-scale. But ladies, we’re dangerous guys.

The three of us before sitting in the car for five hours. I guess it’s time I buy some aviators. Maybe next summer.

Straight off the flight and looking for food. We ate at a decent sushi joint and met Keenan Thompson (not that one). As you can see, he was looking for INVESTOR$. Donation box was pretty sick so we had to contribute a little to his modeling career.

Some fun while firing up the grill.

My first time shooting the Space Needle.

Yep, we felt a little old at Funtasia.

Still no luck with the manual focusing.

This showcases my skills with manual focus. Practice makes perfect and I enjoy the perspective so I guess I’ll just keep practicing.

I understand some people aren’t fans of my pictures of beef. I don’t care. This is also the first set of photos that are linked to my Flickr account. I’m going to try this out and see how I like it. Just yesterday I streamlined my process of preparing and uploading pictures for the site and now it’s sort of slowed down by this whole Flickr thing. But I’m probably going to keep it this way because the pros beat the cons by far.

Pretty much San Diego: Stray Shots. This is the end.

Mostly taken at the Carlsbad K-1 Indoor Karting Facility. For some reason they base rankings on single best lap time rather than average time (aka best total time). I got passed by Dale Earndhardt and Mario Andretti and that’s it. Didn’t see the other guys the entire time. I placed last of the five of us. Doesn’t make sense!

Taken at the Night and Day Cafe. Jason swears by the place. And it delivered the goods. Really feels like a diner. As if I know what that means, but the employees (meaning the one cook and his assitant) really set the atmosphere. Service is slow but everyone seems to expect that so it’s not some awful surprise.

This is the first set photography entry I did from start to finish in Ubuntu. I’m running Photoshop 7 with Wine. So far, I can’t really say that I miss CS2. I was still able to create a few actions and batch. I can’t save for web though, which is sort of awful. Maybe I’ll learn some GIMP scripting. I have all summer. gFTP is kind of tedious, because I’m so used to dragging and dropping from file browser windows.

About the pictures, we must’ve eaten a dozen pounds of meat at the place. They bring rods (I like to call them swords) of meat around and cut pieces off for you. It’s good stuff, but I wish you could just request a certain type. You feel sort of obliged to eat everything that comes around.