I've always liked square photos so when I had the chance I had some photos laid out inside a square. I asked the photo store at the mall to print it in glossy paper and here's the result. Pretty cool, eh? I love how the white gives the photo an instant frame. I'm also changing my watermark, this time with a simple leaf. I liked my old watermark and had fun making it, but I always felt that it was too girly for me. I like leaves, they symbolize the earth, simplicity, being grounded, art, and beauty. I also had fun making the watermark using Picmonkey, which is what I used to create my blog header (hence, same leaf!). It's a more cohesive look, and something I can imagine using for years to come. Check it out if you want to create your own watermark too!
Capping this week off with a 3 Frames post. It has been a long time since I did a portrait shoot with an MUA and I can really say that for portraits, engagements and other sessions, having a professional do your face for you will work wonders. I worked with Kim Tan on this shoot and he is probably one of the best MUAs currently working in my city right now. Made me think that for any occasion where there is even the slightest chance that you will be photographed, you should have your face done. What's great about make-up now is that you can have that natural, not-too-made up look and still look gorgeous and Kim does that flawlessly and in record time too! There are other good MUAs out there too, like Barbie Viliran, Tanzy Tristan, among others. If you want to have good make-up done these are the people who can help you look gorgeous for any portrait. :)
And look! It's Friday! Great weekend coming up!
And look! It's Friday! Great weekend coming up!
I rarely post anything about what goes on behind my blogging but recently I felt confident enough to do a little tweaking with the HTMLs and the foreign-sounding codes that you can find in any Blogger blog and I thought I can do some changes there without hurting my layout. To cut the long story short, I messed stuff up, LOL! My comments were not appearing and this morning my Facebook LIKE button, which is such an easy way for readers to let me know that they visited, didn't show up. I'm glad online tutorials are always around to help me solve my problems. The links below helped me get my LIKE button back up and running in a matter of minutes and helped me solved my missing comments problem.
Don't you just LOOOVEEEE the Internet? I do! Morning everyone!
Helpblogger: Adding Facebook LIKE button to Blogger post
The Tech Zone: Troubleshooting Comments for Blogger
When I first met Sahar I thought she looked foreign and I was right. She is half-Pakistani and at 17 is a willowy beauty with the most striking pair of eyes. A budding model, she wanted to take portraits for fun and to add to her growing portfolio. Her boyfriend Jonas was also with us for the shoot since we were doing the shoot in his house (and what a house!).
Although we started late, Sahar got into the poses in no time and I was cranking my camera every few seconds to capture her every pose. She is definitely a natural model and she knew how to move, how to arch her neck and how to flutter her eyelashes just so for a really arresting stare. In short, I had so much fun! I would hope she and Jonas had fun too! The sun was out almost two hours after we started, which was a bit disappointing since I really wanted to stay and take some more photos, but you really can't take portraits in the dark so we called it a day. Here's the indoor shoot which took us about 15 minutes before we had to run outside to catch the light.
“I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
couples, couples, couples, couples, couples, couples, couples, couples, couples, couples, couples
Finally, this post is up. It's good to be back blogging about love and happy couples once again. Yolanda was a serious blow and for a week my heart broke a thousand times as I watched the news on TV .However, we also saw how unique Filipinos are in our perseverance and in our ability to smile in the midst of the worst calamities Nature can throw at us. And the amount of help we got! Mind-boggling, to see how the world came together, set aside petty differences, and got to the business of sending help our way. My faith in humanity has never been stronger.
Now off to talk about love. Specifically, the one that binds this cute couple together. :)
Indira and Bryan are perhaps one of the sweetest couples I have ever met. I got to meet Indira first and I saw how sweet she was with her sister. I got to see more of that sweetness when I finally got to see her with Bryan. This laid back, fun-loving couple literally chased away the fog and the rain that threatened to ruin the one day that their wedding coordinator, Ate Rona of Purple Parasol, set for their shoot. It rained that morning, and I half-wondered, half-dreamt, if we were pushing through with the shoot. I mean, there was fog in my corner of the city! We rarely have fog and when we do, it usually blankets the entire place in this gray, gloomy haze, so much so that you won't have any difficulty imagining yourself in Ireland or any other place that suffers from perpetual gloomy weather.
However, since both of them worked and had in different towns and had busy schedules, rescheduling the shoot was out of the question. We had to work the little light we had. Fortunately, the rains stopped midway during the shoot and we got a few hours of precious light to take photos. What made the shoot easier was the presence of family members who were there to help out by bringing lunch and even assisting during the shoot (special shout out to Malaika, I's sister who was the perfect assistant!) They made the entire occasion the very definition of a family affair. Indira's parents were also very sweet, gracious and very accommodating and I immediately realized where she and her sister got their sweet and cheerful dispositions from.
I will always have fun taking these kinds of photos. Seeing how two people can stay so in love after years of being together is such a comforting assurance that love can survive time and distance and all the other obstacles that most couples face. And there's also something about the way couples in love look at each other that is so wonderful to watch. They do not look at other people the same way! There's a look, a gaze, a smile, that appears only when they look at each other. And it's so wonderful just to be there, to be able to catch that.
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