Archive for the 'Nature' Category

Who’ll Stop the Rain?

It’s summer and raining, what more can be ironic than that?
I’ve been planning to wash my clothes since Saturday, the sun was up on that day but I missed doing the laundry because some jerk messed up with my schedule. Sunday was church & boxing day (nobody messes up with that), so no wet [...]

Bohol Tarsier, tourist attraction no more

My wife & I visited Bohol last December and I blogged about our wonderful experience. Part of the tour package is the Tarsier experience where you can come close with these tiny beautiful creature.

I’m not sure about the others, but our tour guide, Joel forewarned us not to use flash when taking photos of [...]

Lunar Penumbral Eclipse

It was on the news, a phenomenon called Lunar Penumbral Eclipse will happen, it was schedule to happen at 20:36 Philippine Standard time yesterday night. I researched the net regarding this, according to Wikipedia:

A penumbral eclipse occurs when the Moon passes through the Earth’s penumbra. The penumbra does not cause any noticeable darkening of [...]

Bohol Escapade Part 4: Dolphin Watching & Balicasag Marine Sanctuary

I just came from shooting the Feast of the Black Nazarene today, I will share the photos here in the next few days. Meanwhile, I’ll finish sharing our Bohol escapade.
Our third day in the island started early, the motorized banca that would show us where the dolphins are leaves at 6AM. The whole [...]

Bohol Escapade Part 2: Day Tour – Sandugo Site, Baclayon Church, Lo-ay Bolo Makers & Bilar Man-Made Forest

Our schedule for our 2nd day in Bohol is the countryside tour which includes the Blood Compact site, Baclayon Church, Bilar Man-Made Forest, Chocolate Hills, Loboc River Cruise, Tarsier & Souvenir Shops.
According to our tour guide Joel, the whole tour will take about 8 hours & 300 kilometers. We left Panglao Islands around 9AM [...]

Haring Araw

I have this thing about the sun, specially sunset & sunrise. I can’t help but admire it’s beauty, it’s power to change hues before one’s eye. From a calm soft light in the morning to harsh bright during noon, into a sad yet beautiful orange color when it sets.
This maybe the reason why [...]

The Moony 11 Rule

Officially, this is my first moonshot na matino.

It’s been my long frustration to shoot the moon, since it was full moon tonight, I took my camera & refreshed my brain on what I have read about shooting the moon. I went back to the basic Moony 11 Rule, based on the sunny 16 rule, [...]

Work & Play at Nasugbu, Batangas

I received the call about 10:50PM Thursday night, the guy was saying that if I can shoot for a pre-nup the following day. After a minutes of discussion & negotiation, I agreed to take the job.
The pick-up time was Friday, 14th of December 2007 at 7:30AM, the location was set at Matabungkay Beach Resort [...]

Life Cycle: A Prey’s Ordeal

I was watering the garden when I saw a butterfly being mobbed by ants. The poor thing was fighting hard for it’s dear life. I took the poor insect, brushed away every ants in it’s body & place it to a plant.

I need an answer please

Hindi normal na nasa ibaba ang camera ko, I always keep it in the bag para safe from dust, mist & everything else. Pero nitong nakaraang linggo, may bagong bumibisita sa garden namin, bukod sa butterflies at iba pang insects, may mga ibong Maya na paikot-ikot.
Pero may kaka-ibang huni akong narinig, kakaiba sa huni [...]