oh yeah, i entered this year's idg calendar contest. actually, the whole office (almost) joined! thanks to my's insistent reminders that made us scour the folders of our thousand photos. of course, majority of these photos were taken to amuse ourselves and in a way, discover the professional models in us, so it was hard to find really good ones that can be considered as entries. cath was lucky to have a bunch of nice ones, which she sent to everyone for us to single out the nicest to help her decide which 2 photos to send.
i haven't got a lot to choose from. most of the pics that i've taken are either of and about me or just the usual rural or beach landscape or not so spectacular urban setting pics. to make things worse, i lost most of the nice ones (based on my standards only) that i've taken in our sagada and palawan trips when my hard drive crashed sometime in june last year.
good thing, we took to dumaguete this year and made a short trip to siquijor as well. there, we stayed in coco grove, which was nice and cozy. and in this resort, zel and i happened to bump into 9 wooden bowling tenpins sprawled in san juan's white sand near the resort's swimming pool and parked surfboards. we didn't see any bowling ball and the tenpins are missing 1, there were only 9 of them, so i just took 1 shot of these tenpins before zel arranged it. then, that was it.
when uploading the photos from our trip, this photo turned out to be one of the nicest! i made it my wallpaper for the rest of august, but i haven't changed it since then. cath even said that she thought that i (again) downloaded it from the net! and after zel's pushing, i decided that this one would be one of my entries. i was thinking of including one of my moto razrvx pics of the bangui windmills, but decided to send one photo of the hanging coffins of sagada instead. i thought that they'd like cultural stuff better.
then it was announced that my photo named "strike" was one of the top 40! super happy! and online voting (and editorial preference) would determine the top 12, so we promoted the 4 PH entries that made it to some of our ap & asean colleagues. my "strike" didn't make the final cut (zel's and elke's did, congrats!!), but i'm glad that it was chosen... i've taken a calendar-worthy pic! wahahahahaha! big deal ba! it wouldn't hurt to put some extra effort next time.
and here it is!
i haven't got a lot to choose from. most of the pics that i've taken are either of and about me or just the usual rural or beach landscape or not so spectacular urban setting pics. to make things worse, i lost most of the nice ones (based on my standards only) that i've taken in our sagada and palawan trips when my hard drive crashed sometime in june last year.
good thing, we took to dumaguete this year and made a short trip to siquijor as well. there, we stayed in coco grove, which was nice and cozy. and in this resort, zel and i happened to bump into 9 wooden bowling tenpins sprawled in san juan's white sand near the resort's swimming pool and parked surfboards. we didn't see any bowling ball and the tenpins are missing 1, there were only 9 of them, so i just took 1 shot of these tenpins before zel arranged it. then, that was it.
when uploading the photos from our trip, this photo turned out to be one of the nicest! i made it my wallpaper for the rest of august, but i haven't changed it since then. cath even said that she thought that i (again) downloaded it from the net! and after zel's pushing, i decided that this one would be one of my entries. i was thinking of including one of my moto razrvx pics of the bangui windmills, but decided to send one photo of the hanging coffins of sagada instead. i thought that they'd like cultural stuff better.
then it was announced that my photo named "strike" was one of the top 40! super happy! and online voting (and editorial preference) would determine the top 12, so we promoted the 4 PH entries that made it to some of our ap & asean colleagues. my "strike" didn't make the final cut (zel's and elke's did, congrats!!), but i'm glad that it was chosen... i've taken a calendar-worthy pic! wahahahahaha! big deal ba! it wouldn't hurt to put some extra effort next time.
and here it is!
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