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Asuka Langley Soryu at Ateneo Grounds

Cosplaying is fast becoming a popular hobby or pastime to many Pinoy youths nowadays, ever since the manga and anime invasion. Lots of cosplay events are sprouting all over the country. Imitating or impersonating their favorite character by wearing costume, wigs, make-ups, accessories and even weapons.

Everyone brings out their creativity through their craftsmanship. Specially the accessory and weapon section. When you take a closer look on their giant swords, guns, amulet, belt and other special effects. You’ll be amazed that its just made from ordinary materials you can found in your house, like cartons, rubber matting, tin cans, and even newspaper.

I think more girls are lured into cosplaying than boys. One of their favorite character is Asuka Langley Soryu, the 14-year old fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like my above photo taken during the Ateneo D15GUISE Cosplay event last month.

I hope cosplaying gets additional boost and support from the government. As these would give the young (and not-so-young) an alternative way to become more productive and at the same time shun from bad habits.

PnSers Camera Club

It was the first photowalk for 2011 for the PnSers Camera Club. And I’m happy to say that it was a huge success in terms of attendance! Seven new members joined us that day, which make us 17 indians, all together swarming and shooting all over the place.

Caleruega Chapel

Waking up early due to excitement, yet I know some even hasn’t sleep at all haha! What more if were going for a bahamas cruise for our photowalk lol! Coming from different places (Metro Manila, Cavite and Rizal) and conveying on 4 vehicles. We first trooped down at 7-11 at Tagaytay Rotonda to wait for other indians to complete the delegations (naks delegations daw!!!). At last! at around 10AM we finally arrived (after we got lost haha) to our first destination. The famous sanctuary in Tagaytay, the Caleruega. It has a Mexican inspired architecture, great landscapes, and has an amazing garden with lots of flowers I seldom see on flower shops.

Bench at Caleruega

After landing at Caleruega, everyone was already starving. Good thing one of the members (Nhald) who just celebrated his birthday, brought a lot of tasty siopao! While Jackie brought some ice tea and Simonn (a new member, brought some yummy cookies).

Kabibe lababo at Caleruega

After munching (or while still munching) a few indians have already unpacked their gears and waste no time to spread out and start shooting haha! (addict ba? haha). The whole place was enormously big, plus it has a lot to offer to photographers like us, that it took us almost 4 hours before we decided to eat lunch haha!

People’s Park in the Sky

Sonya’s Garden was supposedly our next stop after Caleruega, and also for lunch. But one member (clutch) who was ahead of us at Sonia’s, told us that place was too crowded because of a wedding celebration. That’s when we decided to find another place to eat, and that’s when we found Verdi Grille where we ate a healthy lunch of bulalo, lechon kawali and grilled chicken (pulos pampa high-blood hehe) plus the bulalo soup is unlimited haha!

We reached People’s Park at pass 3pm already. The climate there was tremendously different from the rest of Tagaytay, its superduper chilly!. Cold wind welcome us as we hike all the way to the top. Great landscapes and sceneries are abundant up there. North to South, East to West there’s a vantage point for us.

During our short stay there, we stopped time doing group shots, and having a cat as a model for a mini-photoshoot hehe. The clouds seems to got heavier way past 5pm and landed on us haha! Its foggy everywhere and the temperature also dropped, good thing most of us have jackets (excluding me wahhh).

Sunset at People’s Park in the Sky

We’re lucky we stayed there long enough to get a spectacular glimpse of the sunset. Although its like the sun is playing hide and seek with us, as the clouds appear and disappear from time to time, that’s why there’s a 10 – 15 seconds interval before we could shoot another haha!

We left at People’s Park in the Sky at around 6pm, all tired but satisfied. Everyone was looking forward to do a photowalk again.

Hapee with FudGee

Ahhhh…I finally got the time to blog about FudGee. FudGee is the name I’ve gave to my new bridge type point and shoot camera. Its actually a Christmas gift for myself hehe. Its popularly known as Fujifilm Finepix S1800.  I consider it an unspeakable upgrade for me. Imagine, coming from a 6X zoom and 7.1 megapixels Canon A710IS, and now FudGee, with a whooping 12 megapixel sensor and an 18X optical zoom whapakkk!

Some of its cool features is that it have an electronic viewfinder (EVF), its capable to record HD movie at 1280×720 resolution, has an 6,400 ISO, panorama mode, burst mode, Auto scene recognition (level-up of from the regular AUTO Mode) and my favorite, the SMILE detection haha! And best of all, with all its cool features,  its the cheapest bridge camera in the market today!!!

All of these are kinda new to me that’s why I’m excited to explore FudGee more each day. Sadly, due to lack of time, I seldom used it (barely a month old, with less than a hundred shots, as of this blog).

Looks like me and FudGee will be going a long way as FudGee gave a sign by winning 1st place on the first photo challenge that we’ve joined .

The photo above is my winning entry. Titled: “Hapi with my Fuji” – Theme:HappyNess, coinciding with this, I’ve recently done some editing on my header image. As you can see, I’m now holding a Fuji S1800 on my hand haha!

Wanna take a peek of what me and FudGee captured lately? Do check out my Flickr photostream HERE!, and do visit us www.pnsers.com