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Lotus flowers for Gina Lopez at La Mesa Eco Park
ESCAPE TO SHILAN– a different kind of Baguio adventure
Take the aircon bus to Baguio and then a metered FX-Taxi that will bring you to Shilan, a quiet sitio of La Trinidad, Benguet. Shilan is exactly 11 kilometers from Baguio City via La Trinidad Valley-Halsema Highway. It has a higher elevation, 4 degrees cooler and, cleaner air at any one time than Baguio.
Upon reaching your destination, a bed and breakfast inn, nestled on the hill ( the only one in the place) will usher you to a magnificent view of the Cordillera Mountains and vegetable, strawberry, cut flower farms on the valley. Hoops! Hold it! Don’t be trigger happy! Keep those cameras holstered! Not yet! This is the time when get to meet your host, discuss the activity plan, menu and other concerns during your stay over three cups of home grown Arabica coffee that comes with a unique breakfast with an AAHH!!. While you are at it, you cannot help but notice with your photographic eye that the mountain colors change hues every hour, exciting you as to what filter, WB, exposure programs to use. On top of that, you notice the colorful small birds challenging you to take a shot as they don’t stay in one position longer than two seconds. A rare occasion for your under utilized expensive zoom lens. After breakfast and orientations, you are advised to take a nap and prepare for the shoot out. At 3pm set your tripod by the window, mount your camera lock and load! Ambush positions! You are about the witness the greatest show on earth that happens uniquely everyday, “The Clouds, The Sunset, And the Valley”. Fire at will! Fire during the golden hours until complete darkness blankets the valley. Tommorow it will present another show same time, same place and be better prepared.
The next day, you will be tempted to take your coffee and at the break of dawn. This is because in the morning of your life you shall look to the sunrise as it hits the mountains and the question you shall ask , “Did I fill my sd card with love that will last my whole life thru?” And the birds like tender babies in your hands playing catch me by the tree. I hope you can take it, cuz it can’t take long to capture it and will never have that moment again! Oh No! (my apologies to Richard Harris).
As discussed and agreed, Mackoy will guide you trekking to the mountain forest reservation. You will wear a good traction shoes, prefereably not so old because it has the tendency to break on the sole. You will not handle or carry anything except your camera so don’t have to pay it when you break it. Mackoy and company will carry all the supplies necessary for you to have lunch at the peak of the mountain picnic style under the pine trees. As you go along, you get to pick and eat wild ferns, cherry tomatoes, blueberries depending on the season. When you reached the peak don’t forget to ask the name of the mountain because the other one across the horizon is the famous Mt. Pulag. You are expected to be back at the inn at 3pm to have another round with the Greatest Show on Earth. They said they had
a guest who stayed the whole month of March taking pictures of the sunset.
Another place to visit is the Shilan Waterfalls. Its more or less 2 hours hike on the mountain trail. REFLECTIONS would be a good theme of your photoshots as you will be lead to quiet brooks with rocks in the size of a Volkswagen. A fine time to use bracketing and HDR photography. A less difficult hike is down the valley where you get to see different farms, meet the farmers and a water spring used for drinking and irrigation. Visit also the La Trinidad Trading Post and shoot vegetables in bulk and other human interest market scene for your stock photos.
You can stay there for a week or a month without hurting your wallet especially if you come in group and has a salary scale of call center agent. Ideal for team building too.!
On the way home, it is suggested that you leave early in the morning for the bus terminal. Buy tickets for the early evening trip. Leave your baggage and do the usual Baguio tour. Mines view, Wright, Mansion and Burnham Parks. Go to Market and eat a hearty meal at SM Baguio. Then back to terminal few minutes before your trip sked.
Contact the Inn owner and she will organize everything for you from your arrival to departure. Her e mail address is flamejoy9@yahoo.com
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LESTER COSTES IS FOUND!
Hi everybody! We found Lester roaming the streets of Bombay,India begging for food. JOKE! Lester just made his present felt on our website. We remember him as the guy who drives around to school with a skyblue Vauxhall v490. Its musical horn sounds like this, “tipitipitap, tipitap! ” If you have such a horn like that today, you will be considered psycho driver and everybody will avoid you. Lester does not smile much and does not have a boisterous laughter. But his bosom friend, Henry Butch Espinosa, is the only one that can make him smile and only one that gets to ride in his car.
Welcome Lester! Please give us your email add and facebook account.
LET’S ASK TOM PEREZ!
Hi Tom! For the update of everybody, We heard that you are in fishpond operations business. On top of that, (according to butch) you have also a resort in Pangasinan. From your email address we can surmise that you are engaged in tourism industry. If you want bookings to Hundred Islands, give the business to Tom.
We recall Tom to be mabait to us small guys ( those classmates who are first in line and seat infront of class). He belongs to the big guys. We can call him “komang” without fear of reprisals. Pero si Tom is kumakasa kahit kanino. From my faint memory inaway niya one of our teachers. (klassmates pls confirm this story and with details).
Tom! we need your input as commented by butch. Also with your good tourism industry association/connection you make reservations with discounts to Corregidor Island Hotel or any venue which we may agree upon later. Please include estimated cost per unit so we can forward the info to the Finance Committee.
Everybody can google Corregidor Hotel so you will know how much you have to save everyday up to 2016.
Please Send Pictures to Chito Canlas
The response to this site by classmates are so overwhelming that most of them like to send memorable pictures from their files. Your historical/current and future pictures and funny stories/anecdotes are most needed. Please e-mail then to Chito Canlas. Chito has a printing press, has an editorial board and hired Dan Brown to produce a coffee table book for distribution during the home coming. Please send it ONLY to Chito. Donot prematurely show it to others, as it will affect the value and excitement of the book.
PLEASE DONT FORGET TO GIVE YOU COMMENTS/REPLIES BELOW. See you on our next blog!
Please Help Locate Our Classmates
The following Classmates are all accounted for and are in active communication with our Chairman Obet: Charles Yench, Butch Apeles, Didoy Aquino, Avelino Catiis, Dong De Vera, James Chavez, Ed Cruz, Chito Canlas, Sambo Aquino, Niki Aquino, Ben Jacinto, Wily Suares, Tom Perez, Butch Espinosa,Ed Garcia, Tique, Manoling Gonzales, Leo Nery, Agusto Catiis, Gilly Galang, Lester Costes…
The following are NOT accounted for as of May 27, 2013: Ricardo Gonzales, Georgie Legaspi, Ed de Jesus, Mario Rodriguez, Jaime Noche, Jaime Jerome, Vicente Garcia, Pablito Lagunzad, Ed Joquico, Francisco De Jesus, Edgardo de Jesus, Enriquito Ganapin, Ben Gutierrez, Hector Corpus, Ted Llado, Jacinto Ocampo, Serapin Alvarez, Clemente Baguisi, Ed Denuna, Ernesto Leano, Ben Yap, Danilo Lantin, Benedicto Reyes, Teodoro Chengcuenca, Enrico Tonson. We would like to also locate our teachers, Roncal, Kleng Kleng, Even thou, Punongbayan, etc..
The Official Website of Don Bosco IV-D and Friends Batch 66
It is now official. By confirmation of classmates who are in touch with Roberto Santos Diaz, http://www.photoleon.net/blog is now the official website that will be used as the “Secretariat”, ” Information Clearing House” and Official Pronouncements and Guidelines for the Celebration of Our 50th Anniversary Reunion. The following are the initial arrangements and will be subject to change as may be made by the Organizing Committee as we go along towards 2016 Golden Reunion:
Tentative Date of Reunion.— January 16-17, 2016. Please plan ahead.
Tentative Venue.–Corregidor Island Hotel, Manila, Philippines. Overnight Stay. Tour during the day, musical entertainment to be provided by the musicians of batch 66 and awarding ceremonies at night. The Island is accessible by yatch from Manila Hotel.
Organizing Committee Members.– All living members of IV-D Batch 66. Roberto Santos Diaz as Chairman.
Committee On Finance.– Sambo Aquino, Manoling Gonzales, Wily Suares, Ben Jacinto, Charles Yench.
Committee on Programs and Entertaiment.– Dong De Vera, Tique, Catiis, Butch Espinosa, Mario Rodriguez, Tom Perez
Committee on Communications, Invitations, Research.– Obet, Ed Cruz, Ed Garcia, Gilly Galang, Leo Nery
Committee on Souvenir Programs etc.– Chito Canlas, Leo Nery, Apeles, James Chavez
ALL BATCHMATES ARE REQUESTED TO VISIT THE SITE REGULARLY AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO GIVE INPUTS BY ENTERING THEIR COMMENTS/REPLIES/LIKE/DISLIKE BELOW EACH BLOG WE WILL PUBLISH FROM TIME TO TIME.
Income Opportunity Ideas
Our group had a brain storming in order to come out with a blog on this category. We want something new and fresh ideas and tried to avoid the gimmicks that are considered cliche’. But on the second thought, we believe that old ideas may be new to the other side of the globe and may still work on other locations.
Below are the lists of money making ideas we agreed worth suggesting to a would be professional photographer. We invite our readers to contribute and extend the list. They may also implement the ideas free of copyright violation. As an act of penance we just request proper acknowledgement and refer at least ten visitors to our site.
Ideas as of May 19, 2013
1. When dining in a restaurant, take a picture of the food you ordered before eating. Show the images to the owner/manager and complement the food. Mention that you are a pro and has a website and you will post the pictures. Leave your card and suggest if they like better pictures for their menu, posters, ads and wall frames or need a good photographer for restaurant events you will make yourself available because they serve such good food. You just earned a friend and pictures of food for your stock photo at their expense.
2. Organize a Photo Tour? yeah, maybe. But this one is different. Organize a street photography! Reserve an avenue in a busy upscale business district. Accredit professional and wannabe photographers who will post themselves on the street like a paparazzi or street photographer in short. Announce to the public that this is a street photography day and those who would like their pictures taken like a celebrity can walk through the avenue wearing their fashionable clothes (or otherwise) behaving like celebrity/fashion model entering the Oscar’s Awards Night. You don’t need a Donald Trump to make money from accreditation and sponsors and sold pictures (edited and framed) not to mention souvenir programs. Don’t forget to get waivers from the models.
3. If you are attending a street procession, parade (flower, costume), Chinese Dragon Dance, bicycle race, etc., where there are colorful and historical significance. Position yourself to take images from a vantage point where a business establishment (restaurant, bank, store) will be part of the background. Sell the images to the establishment concerned. They may even land on the calendars they give away annually.
That will be all for the moment. Please add you ideas and make comments. We will include it on our next list update.