February, many of us considers as the month of Love. But for Filipinos, not only is this a month of romance but also this is a month full of preparations and events in which this will be the month most of the people are preparing for the coming March, may it be graduation parties, end of school balls, and other events that usually culminates in March. So in this case, February becomes a month of prequels to ending events one of which is a school’s promenade. Prom is a formal ball which is held more often than not at the end of an academic year so this means my fellow colleagues in the events business is surely busy getting hired for these events. One of whom is Ma’am Alma Mae Roa of Cameron’s who is one of the famous/great designers here in Cagayan de Oro City and we were really honored when she chose us to photograph her clients wearing her creations. And I just also want to say thanks to Ma’am Mae, because she also designed our new outfit which we will be wearing during our shoots ( we’re pretty stoked about it! )

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photographed by: OneHappyStory

outfits by: Alma Mae Roa of Cameron’s

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to be continued

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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Random shots taken using a film camera.

photos taken using FUJICOLOR CN135 100.

by: storyteller Bon

pews inside Mt. Carmel Church.

Kris and Dottie’s wedding

beautiful Flower arrangement, unfortunately, had to transfer inside a function room as it just rained cats and dogs later that night.

some film shots during my recent engagement shoot…very cool set I could say.

these shots taken during my trip to Valencia City for an Arabian themed birthday party in Roadhouse.

our trip to Samal Island, Davao City

kids of the seas.

with fellow OneHappyStory crew members, Cocong (the guy with long curly hair –  2nd photographer), Garry (guy with the short hair – our technical crew member )

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Family portraiture for me is one of the jobs I love to do. It is also as heartwarming as covering a wedding.

But the difference between the two, family portraiture is ajob where I have to immerse with the entire family from the kiddos to the lolo and lola so that they would be comfortable to me yet I still have to be a little bit out of sight so as to capture those real family moments. The location was at the Casino’s farm in the outskirts of Impasug-ong.  The place was around 1 hour away from Cagayan de Oro City so we had to travel early. It was also my idea just to be sure that I’ll be having some nice shots with the kids running around before they ran out of energy. But that I was wrong, the kids were all over the place skipping their afternoon naps. It was I who surrendered and got a few zzz’s early in the afternoon.

All I could really say is that, I had a fun day with THE CASINOs……not forgetting to mention the tasty lasagna and the family’s signature version of the appetizer bagoong.

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photographed by: BON ASERIOS

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The photography workshop focused more on letting the participants acquire that “photographer’s eye”. And so I chose to share my knowledge on how to compose a photo instead rather than focusing more in editing. My aim was for them to be very observant with every detail when they frame their photo. That each photo has its own story to tell and by putting those in a harmonious way would create a story. This workshop, we tackled from landscape photography, food, fashion but I decided to do more portraits as doing portrait photography is the usual kind of photography.  They are only using kit lenses and I taught them how to use them in portraiture.

So here are the shots of my participants and after teaching them basic knowledge using Photoshop and just guiding them through, they were the one who edited their photos. Editing was more of their own taste rather than me dictating what they want to do with their own photos. Again I would like to thank to the Lord God above for giving us a wonderful weather for the shoot, my participants who showed in my workshop with great enthusiasm and to the organizer of the workshop, Ms. Pickle Flores, for letting this workshop possible. I hope that a Razzle Dazzle part 2 will be in store in the future. So I am also calling out you people who are interested to learn photography that I am open to one on one workshops or group workshops, just shoot me an email…

photos 31-37 are photographed by me.

Once again THANK YOU SO MUCH…

portraiture | portrait | Cagayan de Oro city

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sliver [?sl?v?] – 1. A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter.

The shoot was about breaking free from doing the usual shoot. The idea was doing a fashion type photoshoot but the photos portray not the clothes they wear but the emotion and the feelings the pictures gives you.

This was a visual art side project I had after I was invited by Essa and Mai of a photo shoot they had in mind. Essa and Mai are close friends of mine who came up with a nice and unique idea for a shoot.  Their idea was inspired from the yin yang symbol and also to make do of simple garments for them to wear and it was my part on how to interpret their idea and make it like a high fashion shoot. My aim was to take their picture and direct them in such a way people will see first the emotions and the poses they did before the people realizing that they are only wearing simple linens.

We would like to thank club TILT management for giving us full use of the club area.

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And by the way, I’ll be doing a photography workshop this coming April, please stay tuned for more details. Interested participants can now contact me for reservations. Only 15 slots are available. Hope to see you.

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conceptual art by: ESSA SANTOS and MAI MISA

photographed by: BON ASERIOS

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Katrina and Jerrold

Today is Valentine’s Day. Last week I had a photoshoot session with two young couple who are very much in love with each other and nope they are not getting married soon. They just wanted to have this photoshoot for them to enjoy. It was cool. It is a great idea for a date. Anyhow, I told Katrina to write something about the shoot so that I could also post it along with the photos. It was a great day, nice people to work with, guess it was one of those happy days that nothing seems to go wrong.

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Being young, carefree and in love is something worth savoring. You never pass this way again. Not quite grown up yet to say it’s an engagement, but not too juvenile to say it’s just some fling. Every snapshot is a moment frozen in time. A fleeting moment that soon becomes a memory and to be able to capture the essence of your love and youth in a photograph is an arm’s length short of magic. So before t-shirts are traded in for ties, school books are traded in for taxes and we’re somewhere in between young love and forever, we might as well ham it up for the cameras and let loose.

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And before anything else, me along with Team Oro would also like to announce our warm welcome to Katrina as our fellow member in our team. She is doing apprenticeship for videography under our team…clap! clap! clap!

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photographed by: BON ASERIOS

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And so the month of Prom nights came. Camille, the first time I met her during our meeting before the shooting day, was your typical girl. She was shy and don’t talk much. Well I don’t know if I am correct with my first impressions of her, I tried to divulge more of her to get an idea what kind of treatment I’m going to do during our shoot. She showed me some photos, and luckily, she wanted what I usually like, a photo shoot in an open and grassy field. I really like taking into my framing the sway of the grasses in unison with the moving clouds. It gives that cool feeling in my photos. And so the day of the shoot came, Camille was glowing with warmth, her mother and sister was also there to support her and a very nice weather, nothing was going to hinder us from getting nice photos, well aside from that I only have an hour to do the shoot as we we’re doing the shoot an hour before Camille’s prom night.

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photographed by: BON ASERIOS

gown: GIL MACAIBAY III

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portraiture | portrait photography | Cagayan de Oro City

It was January 2 when we had this shoot. The cousins decided to have a hippie theme and to my delight they really did their homework. YES! And on top of that, God gave us a beautiful rainbow to be our background, such a nice sign to start a new year.

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Sharese contacted weeks before their wedding day that she wanted me to take their portraits as a couple. It is a huge compliment for me especially when I know that the couple is very appreciative of my work and trusts me whatever I command them to do. The shoot went well even though we started around 2pm in the afternoon. We were also thankful to Sharese’s bestfriend who were very supportive to have their place to be our photoshoot location as we only had one day to prepare.

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photographed by: BON ASERIOS

location:  Sabellina’s Residence, Aluba hills

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thanks also to STEPHANIE GO of PARASHOOT for the assistance.

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