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January 20, 2008

My husband and I love photography! We enjoy going places, just the two of us, and just start taking pictures. We’ll bring our trusty Canon A40 and our Canon Rebel XTI and we’d be good to go. We’ll swap the two cameras between the two of us and get lost in the world. At the end of the day, we’d feel accomplished. Not just because of the shots we take but also because we have the whole day for just the two of us.

I have to admit, hubbie has a better eye when it comes to compositions. He finds angles that I rarely see. But he always says I take better portrait photographs. Well, I just try

There’s a high I get when I’m in any place and have nothing on my mind except taking pictures. I see a subject and really get into it. But don’t get me wrong, I don’t always come up with very good compositions. But I think that’s where the ultimate high comes from – that one shot that would make you say “Hey, this isn’t so bad!” No matter if you’d taken a hundred photos before you got to that one good one. It still was worth the whole afternoon for me.

We’ve taken a lot of pictures already for the past two years. And I’m really counting on us taking so many more in the years to come. And hopefully our photographs would get better and better – just like wine… just like a good marriage.

A New Template… And Every Other One

January 13, 2008

So finally! I changed this blog’s template. I am enjoying my new Wacom Tablet and this template is the product of this whole night’s effort. I like doing templates. Actually, I enjoy doing templates. It just takes me a while to get satisfied and convince myself that I’ve done good. So there were so many times that when I did a template and didn’t get to finish it in one sitting, for sure, I’d change my mind the next time I work on it again.

I’ve been doing templates for blogs for quite a few years now. I’ve done them for free for friends. In fact, manilena.com was originally supposed to be the house of all my blog templates (until I decided to do something else).

So this week, I needed to list down templates I’ve done in the past and suprisingly, there’s quite a number of them out there. (Not even counting the ones that aren’t up anymore, and so many from my own websites, or the ones who have picked up my designs that I don’t know of).

I was thinking of placing thumbnails of those websites in here but I’m a little tired already from working on the template. But I’ll list them here and maybe next time I could go back and put in the thumbnails.

Some of the news items where I’ve been mentioned (as Ate Sienna or Gigi Manaloto):

From Blog-o-rama (Manila Bulletin)

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2005/05/03/TECH2005050333939.html

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2005/03/29/TECH2005032931540.html

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2005/04/18/TECH2005041832908.html

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2005/09/26/TECH2005092645314.html

From Annalyn Jusay’s blog:

http://www.annalyn.net/2007/12/22/the-rest-of-the-bloggers-speak-about-our-blogging-achievements/

http://www.annalyn.net/2005/05/03/the-fairy-godmother-ate-sienna/

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Jim Paredes’ Photography Site: http://haringliwanag.pansitan.net/photos1.php