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Backpack Photography Batanes 2012 Join our 3-island Photo Tour and Workshop. Explore the verdant sights of Batan. Spend an overnight on serene Sabtang. And venture to the wilder coasts of Itbayat. Experience Batanes in a new light. See details here at Backpack Photography!

Servier with doctors at La Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, Bataan Yesterday, I had a pleasant roadtrip to Bagac, Bataan. This was for a Travel and Landscape Photography Lecture to be held at La Casas Filipinas de Acuzar for Servier and their doctor clients at The Medical City. It was just a short lecture but a fun one since I could see the doctors were very enthusiastic about the topics discussed. We drove after to Sisiman Bay but I wasn’t able to shoot as much. Sisiman in Mariveles has marvelous landscape that I would like to visit again some time soon, same with La Casas. But in the mean time Iwould like to thank Servier for the opportunity to do a lecture and the doctors for attending. It was my pleasure.

  The Kata Hybrid In my continuous attempt to keep my travel gear light as possible for my personal travel, I’ve been looking at some options in terms of camera bags. Before, I had two bags with me, my Kata Sensitivity Bag and my regular 30-liter Deuter Backpack. While I really like the efficiency of the Sansitivity-V for its size, it’s really hard to travel with 2 bags in tow, especially when you’re always on the move. When I found the Kata Hybrid-537 D-lite Shoulder Bag while doing some window shop on a camera store, I thought it was ingenious that I can remove the compartments making it more compact if I wanted to so I bought one at Island Photo. After months of having it with me, here what I thought of it.

Macau on Inflight's City Guide If you are flying Seair within the couple of months October and November. Don’t forget to check out the recent issue of Seair’s InFlight Magazine. Main feature here is Puerto Princesa. I also wrote a short article on Macau for their City Guides and featured some of my photos there.

SMUG Metro Manila group hug last night It was an exciting night for us co-leaders, Tracey Heppner and Me . It started with an idea of bringing the exciting SMUGs community here in the Philippines which is really popular in the Europe and USA. And finally officially launching it here was a really exciting endeavor. It was really an informal night of getting to know each other during the launch but it was the groundwork that would lead to other exciting activities for the coming months.