Series 12: Mt. Tapulao Trek - Zambales

August 5th, 2005 | 1 Comment

This black and white series covers the time I had my Mt. Tapulao trek together with club members in Zambales two weekends ago.

Related posts:

Trekking preparations
Mt. Tapulao (aka High Peak) - 2037m, 1
Mt. Tapulao - the trek, 2
Mt. Tapulao - on being a sweeper, 3
Mt. Tapulao - trekking gears, 4

Migration to Pixelpost from Wordpress

July 20th, 2005 | 2 Comments

NOTE: I have long switched back to Wordpress for the photoblog and doesn’t use Pixelpost anymore. Also, Ramin Mehran’s script doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Pixelpost, in the end, proved to be a much better photoblogging tool than current implementations of Wordpress like Pictorialis. Its much simpler and has a great community of developers as well as users that make it a viable alternative. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have anything against Wordpress which is a great regular blogging software. Its just that I haven’t found a template that will fit my photoblogging needs.

I started testing Pixelpost Friday night and until Saturday, while I was successful in installing it, Ramin Mehran’s, script, Import from Wordpress to Pixelpost just seemed not to work without errors. I was already getting exasparated that I just posted at the Pixelpost forum about my problem as well as emailed Ramin. Nice thing about it was that he was quick to reply. Since I still experienced problems with it, I then had him access my server files to take a look on what’s the problem. Fortunately, he has found it, made adjustments, and voila! My photoblog, Binary Silver was now migrated to Pixelpost. I just have to make some minor adjustments as some comments were repeated on all posts.

To Ramin Mehran, one of the developers of Pixelpost 1.4, my wholeheartfelt thanx for your help. You’re a godsend!

The old Binary Silver using Wordpress 1.5.



The new Binary Silver using Pixelpost 1.4 using a template by JLSpurling’s Light White.

Series 11: A short trip to Culion

July 5th, 2005 | No Comments

2 June, me and three of my lady staff took the flight from Puerto Princesa to Coron for our annual company outing. And from that day until the 5th, besides enjoying the sea, sand and sun, took my time photographing life as it occured in these fabled islands:

Culion, established as a leper colony by the Americans to house lepers that were found scattered in the streets and homes around the Philippines but now a wonderful island rich in history minus the lepers (okay, I was told that there are still people afflicted with this disease but only few - nevertheless, its nothing to worry).

Calauit Safari, part of the tour package but the African animals are just too few in numbers and kinds.

Coron. Such a wonderful place! Except for a miscommunication with a man while I was doing my photoshoots, the people are friendly, views and sceneries are just wonderful and they don’t mind me taking pictures.

This series includes 31 photos during this short trip (short but I was able to use up around 10Gb of photos in RAW - thus the great number for this series) taken in these islands in the Calamianes group.

Series 10: Church activities

June 17th, 2005 | No Comments

This new series focuses on church activities in Talisay City, Sibonga and Carcar (all in Cebu) during last March’s Holy Week when I was at home during that time. These are some of my favorite shots from the opening series image, to the candle vendor and boy outside of Carcar church as well as the the two men looking at a child at the back of the sacristy at Sibonga church.

Series 8: Pahiyas 05

May 23rd, 2005 | No Comments

This series started already at my photoblog, Binary Silver. This comprise 10 photos taken during the harvest festival at Lucban, Quezon and includes colored as well as black and white photos. Its not only limited to the views of the decors that identifies Pahiyas but also those that I’ve seen: the procession, the vendors, Lucban longganisa.

This is the first series output from my Canon 350D. Due to the different photo dimensions as compared to my Canon G5, I’ve increased the photo size from 500×375 pixels to 600×400 pixels.