Yipeee! I’m in 3rd place finally!!!! Its actually my first time being third at dpreview and I’m really very happy, although there’s regret that I missed 2nd place by two points only (3,464 and 3,646 points). Nevertheless, I’m still proud of my photo being on 3rd place out of 71 entries at the “Portrait shot using HDR” Photo Challenge at dpreview.com.
This again was a milestone for us point and shoot users, specially my club at PnSers.com! It just proves that its not the camera but the photographer! Or the tagline of our camera club, we say “its not the bow, its the Indian!
Some comment I have received from this photo is that he looks like Moses with a tablet on his hand. I haven’t thought of that, but hey, he sure do look like Moses. 
Kudos to all my friends and colleagues for their votes, and for inspiring me to shoot more quality photos! Maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat! And lastly, thanks to the old man at Quezon Memorial Circle for letting me capture his portrait. Hope to see him again and thank him personally.
See the results here: http://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Entry.aspx?ID=541395&View=Results&Rows=4
I almost do the zumba dance after knowing I got shortchanged by this dishonest sales clerk of a botica somewhere in Greenpark.
This is how the story goes…
It just happened that I have two 100 peso bill on my pocket. The first 100 bill left my pocket when I gas up my ride. Then I went to a this botica to buy a couch syrup for my stubborn cough. The sales clerk is kinda jerky as I order the cough syrup. She ask, tell and brag anything about this cough syrup, saying something like (Sir hiyang ba sa inyo ito? Mabisa ito at mura pa!, Eto ba madalas nyong bilhin? etc…)
After nodding to all that she says. She finally hand it over to me then I paid her with my remaining 100 bill. She saw me having difficulty reading the brand name (because at that time I’m not wearing my eyeglass).
Afterwards she came forward while I was still figuring out the brand name and hand over my change. I got surprised that its only P13 pesos when the cough syrup only cost P37 pesos. She should have gave me P63.I asked her hurriedly about my incorrect change which she likewise quickly reacted by displaying a P50 peso bill she blatantly stretched with her two hands. “Sir this is what you gave me!” she said. I’m kinda startled of her quick reaction (nakuha ako sa biglaan) and at the same time confused with what she says, I still nod and told her OK. But deep in my mind, I know there’s something wrong here.
Its only on my way home that I realized I was deceived by that botica sales clerk at Greenpark.
The fact that;
- I only have 100 peso bill
- The P50 she was holding was supposed to be included on my change from my P100 (P63 dapat pero yung P13 lang inabot nya)
- Let’s just say that the P50 bill is mine. She goes to the cash register, got my P13 pesochange, then came back to me still holding the P50? Isn’t that kinda weird?
- She’s a real mean con-girl so BEWARE!!!!
I decided to go back, but wattaheck, pamasko ko na lang sa kanya yun! 
Every ride I made, I make sure I documented all the important statistics along the way. Odometer reading and gas mileage are the two most important. That way, it will be informative for other riders when I post it on my blog. They’ll have an semi accurate data of the length and gas consumption just in case they’ll planning to go to the same place i’ve been.
Okay, so here’s how what I do before. I usually brought along a pad paper and a ball pen whenever I’m on a long ride. Jotting down all the details when we stop for gas, eat or rest. I suppose to do that religiously, but sometimes I simply forgot about it. Nevertheless, what matter most is that I got the departure and the arrival reading of the odometer hehe.
And so, on my last ride, I made a kind of upgrade from my paper and ballpen strategy. I now used my Samsung Corby mobile phone. Its 2 megapixel camera is just enough for me to journal my ride and got the stats that I want more easily. Of course if you have a much nicer phone, much better, as long as it have a handy-dandy camera.
Instead of my usual style of writing it down, I now have the power to get the data I want with just one click on the shutter. Isn’t that amazing!
Not to mention I can still shoot some nice photos of the surroundings. There’s only one mistake that I made, and that is I forgot to adjust the time on my cellfone to GMT+8H. I only found out about it when I got home. Next time it would be perfect for sure hehe!
By the way, all the photos here are captured during our Halloween Pagudpud Ride
