Katrina Manlutac's Debut Party 11.27.11

I was just supposed to shoot videos for that event. But Wella Fan, the main photographer of the event and the person who got me as videographer, had her flight from a wedding in Boracay delayed. So I helped Mao, her 2nd shooter to shoot some photos. Two pairs of eyes are always better than one right? :D Wasn't supposed to bring my Nikon D40 that day but at the last minute I decided to put it on my backpack with the intention to use it to shoot some BTS.

Preparation Venue: Eastwood Richmonde Hotel
Debut Party Venue: The Glass Garden

Shot under Wella Fan Photography
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The Glass Garden

The Debutante

fishball food trip

was out yesterday and we were at Metropolitan Hospital in Masangkay and we decided to go for that fishball stand we were so fond of when my mom was confined at that hospital. so here's a few photos of our food trip. :D

the fishball stand at Masangkay. there's the kwek-kwek (quail eggs wrapped in flour), fishballs, squid balls, and kikiam.

Jeremy holding a plastic cup filled with 10-peso worth of fishball.

here's my cup of fishball with the combination of sweet sauce and onion-laden spicy vinegar

Intramuros is ♥

Today is November 15, 2011 here in Manila. A year ago, on this same day, I went out for a photowalk with a guy named Jeremy Sauza Cruz. Little did I know that he would soon be my better half, my soulmate, my God's best. So in remembrance of that day, here are some of the photos I took that day of the walled city named Intramuros.

WISH, My Persian Cat

With Puss In Boots showing in cinemas nationwide, I decided to feature my uber-adorable persian cat named Wish. Some says she looks scary because of her eyes. But boy, wait til you spend time with her! She's as moody as yours truly, she's a snob when she doesn't want to play with me, but she's as crazy as any cat could be. She knows when we're talking about her, she sleeps in a position the exact same way that I do, and she lounges around like Cleopatra. Oh! And she would love to eat adobo, cheese, menudo, sinigang, nilaga and pandesal but we don't allow her to eat rice meals. :D

She loves chewing on my neighbor's plants esp. the sabila plant.

Wide-eyed

Snob

Always guarding the refrigerator.

Sleeping on my bed

♥ weddings! ♥

this year, I was blessed to cover 2 weddings at church already. both were a learning experience in terms of wedding coverage for me. and why I am photoblogging on weddings? because most of the girls from the Victory group I attended last night were already engaged. oh yes love love love is in the air! ♥ so here are some photos of wedding symbols and extras that I took.

[EPHESIANS 5:22-33] ²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.  ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{[c] 32} This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

[THE COINS]

[TWO HEART] Two butterflies plus a heart under them.

[LOVE FRAME] This was the photobooth design for the wedding.

the bouquet and the candles

[THE RING]

♥♥♥

relationship stages

was dining out tonight when i saw lots of couples having dinner and it reminded me of 3 photos I took a few months ago on different occasions. all 3 photos were of couples in different stages of a relationship. let's meet them! :D

The GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER stage. In this stage, you won't get to see holding hands yet, or the guy putting his arms on the girl's shoulders. All you'd see would be lots of talking, lots of slight brushes on each others' skin, and lots of giddy smiles.

The HONEYMOON stage. In here, they've gone past the getting to know each other stage and they are now too close for comfort. You would often see them walking hand in hand, hugging each other in public, and doing lots of romantic things together. Just like this couple. Biking in a park.

The LOVERS QUARREL stage. Or some would say, the STRANGERS AGAIN stage. If it's just an LQ stage, the couple would be seen aloof towards each other in public, with one of them casting nasty looks toward the one who made a mistake. If this is the STRANGERS AGAIN stage, then the couple has now grown apart from each other, without a need for the other in their life that they have drifted apart. Soon they'll be bound for HEARTBREAK AVENUE.

:D

Franco

was listening to my iPod today when I suddenly missed all the loud music i used to have in my iPod Touch (stolen months ago). So in remembrance of my iPod Touch, here's some photos of the band Franco that I took when Jeremy and I attended OPPAP and Dakila's Rock for Peace concert a few months ago. :D

Buhawi Meneses on Bass

Gab and Buwi

Franco

Buwi

Gabby Alipe

Buwi, smoked.

lensflare indoors

I was at Robinson's Galleria a few months ago when I noticed this indoor plants placed directly under some lights. When I took a few photos of them, the photos looked like I took a photo of the sun in the Sahara. Here are the photos:

flowers

i love flowers so much and they are one of my most favorite subjects in the world. put a flower in front of me and i will take dozens of photos of that flower. they add joy to my life just by merely looking at them. i love beautiful things and they are by far the one of the most beautiful things that God has created. so here are a few of the photos i took with flowers as subjects.

[BALAHIBONG PUSA] One afternoon, while I was at my lola's house next door, I saw this unfamiliar plant in her garden. I was amazed by it because it was something new to me, a plant that has a flower I haven't seen before. They call it balahibong pusa or in english cat whiskers.

[HARDENED BEAUTY] I was on a photowalk with Jeremy last November 2010 in Intramuros Manila when this flower caught my attention. Jeremy did not even notice the flower until I showed him the photo. I don't know why it caught my attention but somehow, the flower was put exactly in the path I was taking, like serendipity.

The first photo I took that day that Jeremy and I had a photowalk in Intramuros. This made him notice my love for flowers, something he made a mental note of.

[CHASTE] This flower was on my front porch, a plant that belongs to my neighbor. Seeing the pure white flower against a dark background just gave me a thought on purity and being chaste.

[EUPHORBIA EUPHORIA] This is one of my babies, one of the plants that I have in my mini garden.

[CRADLE] This flower caught my attention while I was outside looking at my plants because it gave me the thought that it looks like it was cradling something precious.