When we had our pictorial with Claire, she was very easy to work as she was very cooperative to the ideas I tell her. She was also accompanied by her nice and supportive mother and sisters who also made her comfortable during the shoot as Claire told me it was her first time to do this kind of pictorial. She was a natural infront of the camera. When I was taking pictures of Claire, she reminds me of Claire Danes plus Taylor Swift combined, and I can just feel that Claire is a talent just waiting to be discovered by model headhunters.

Anyway, we had fun covering her debut. To Claire, wish I got your autograph because I could sense that you’ll be big someday. So if you’ll find below after your pictures, I also posted pictures of us with you so if you’ll be famous someday, I’ll have this blog to show-off as evidence that we are friends. hahahaha!

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photographed by: OneHappyStory

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we just can’t resist to also have some pictures taken with ELMO. He’s Filipino by the way, look at his hands. hehehehe..:)

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This has got to be the most intimate debut coverage we have attended to. Not that it is better than the other debut celebration we have covered, it is just a simple celebration attended by Marianne’s childhood friends and her very cool relatives. Due to very busy schedule, me, Cocong and Gary were the only ones who were able to cover this special celebration and I could say, it felt like we were not actually doing our work but were more like one of the guests of the party. Maybe because the celebration was held in their house that it has this homey ambience. It was heart-warming and nice to talk and laugh with her very happy and fun loving mamala and papala ( that’s how they call their lolo and lola, very cool how it sounds. ). To Marianne, happy 18th birthday and in behalf of OneHappyStory, we promise that we will cover your wedding day ( in the future ) for free! Yes! It’s free, as long as it will be held in Las Vegas! hahahaha! We had a great time with you, mamala and papala. We would also like to thank Marianne’s mom and dad for trusting us. yahoo!
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photographed by: OneHappyStory

mua: Jeri Udasco

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with the birthday celebrant…:)

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Photo shooting outdoors these days has been very difficult lately as we just got hit by monsoon “Juan”. My shoot with Marianne was no exception.  Her mother, who is still in the States, wanted very good pictures for her daughter’s debut. Frequent emails from her about her ideas on the planned pre-debut shoot then followed. Our idea of having a warm afternoon shoot did not go as planned because when the pre-debut shoot came, “Juan” was also tagging along with us. But we didn’t stopped from getting nice portraits of Marianne. Jeri Udasco’s nice make-up job on Marianne can’t be left unphotographed.  So, with great faith, we still trudged amidst heavy rains to Opol beach as we can’t think of any other place that we can have a small chance of having a better weather than along the city proper which was already getting beaten up by the heavy rains. Eventually, the weather turned positive toward us as the rain became very light and we can finally have some fun shots along the shoreline. We had fun working with Marianne as she was friendly and was also having fun being with us. This is part one of two of getting to know Marianne…:)

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photographed by: OneHappyStory

mua: Jeri Udasco

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One thing Noi wanted for her debut party was to have a nice outdoor party. Everything was nicely planned and coordinated. The decors were beautifully arranged, delicious food served on the buffet table, everyone close to Noi were already there. All was perfect until rain came in. Yup, Mr. Rain paid a visit and I could see that Noi was getting worried already. 6PM, heavy downpour. 7PM (supposed to be the start of the program – still drizzling ). Noi was already adviced that the party will be moved to the ballroom. But Noi was faithful that the rain would stop sooner, nothing can stop her from having her dream debut party. In our part, it was still cool, we are always armed with plastic bags to cover our cameras when situations like this arise. I was thinking, “this gonna be one wet party”. And around 8PM, Noi’s prayers got answered. The rain stopped and everything just went into place. The guests were still there and enjoyed the night away. It was Noi’s dream party come true just an hour late.

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photographed by: OneHappyStory

coordination: TINES and CO.

location: CHA-LI BEACH RESORT

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During our pictorial, heavy rains pour down on us. Our ideas for the pictorial also went along with the rain water and we had to immediately decide on plan B. So we decided to go to Chali Beach Resort and try to work out some indoor shots. But as we arrived in Chali, the rain stopped and God gave me this soft lighting which you always get after a rain. I smiled and whispered to the heavens above; “Lord, You often change my plans and ideas for a shoot, but from all the shoots that I had, it always turns out very good, You always surprise me!” Even though we only had a short time to do the shoot, still we had a blast and ended up having very nice cool shots. yeah! Rakenrol! This is Noy’s predebut shoot.

photographed by: ONE HAPPY STORY

location: CHA LI BEACH RESORT

and NOY wouldn’t be a great person without the support of her loyal fans, her cool Mom and Dad and her Berkz.

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Finally, the kid we used to jokingly tease around is now a lady… And also not to mess around because she is an MMA practitioner.  So guys, this friend of mine is a lady not to under estimate with. She may look like harmless and soft as a feather, always remember,  she can seriously kick someone’s butt.

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photographed by: BON ASERIOS

location: CHA-LI BEACH RESORT

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photographed by: BON ASERIOS

video: ATOY MARTINEZ HI DEFINITION VIDEO

location: APPLE TREE

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One thing about being a photographer is that you have to accept whatever situation nature has to give during a shoot. Summer sun was ferocious that day. We had to walk around 20 minutes under the heat of the sun going to the shooting location. But nonetheless, we still had fun shooting April’s pre-debut shoot.

photographed by: BON ASERIOS

debut | cagayan de oro city
These are my share of photos during a debut me and Aye covered.
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meeting en-en was cool. she is a cool person period. that is a fact as the testimonials of her friends coincide with my description of her.
congrats en, more birthdays to come…and uhm…that’s all…hahaha…im pretty much blanked out, not much to say…guess i have to sleep longer hours

location: Pearlmont Inn
make-up: Rusty Pimentel
hair: Ardelon Bernaldez
dress/gown: Mark Yaranon

photographed by: BON ASERIOS www.bonaserios.com
with: Dan Mejia

*later that night, Aye and Awing passed by “nakikain” hahahaha…

videography by: ATOY MARTINEZ high definition video

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