Been Gone for a While

Okay, make it a looong while. Unfortunately, I've been really busy, more unfortunately its not about photography. It wasn't even about my day job. Me and my wife were stuck with some legal issues on our recent home purchase. That took a lot of my time....and funds. Between that and my walk-all around lens breaking (unrepairable) I'd say I haven't had a really great life. LOL. Alls well, though, as we were able to settle out of court and we're happy to say, that we love our new home. And the broken lens did not go to waste, as I sold it for parts and got a decent, almost equal-in-spec Nikon glass as replacement.


Any ways, I wanted to share my recent vacation. We recently came from Coron, Palawan for a well deserved vacation.

The sun wasn't really cooperating, but when it did, it gave us some amazing light. With the help of some nice clouds acting as huge softboxes, we got all the shots below with only available light:

I took the chance to bring some lighting gear just in case we get a chance to shoot some themed model (my wife of course) shoot. We saw this great house from the 1800's that was torn down back in the 40's and all that's left was walls with some great grungy textures and graffiti. Two strobes used with the shots below with either both with snoots, or an umbrella -snoot combo.

That wall was so pretty that I decided to join in the fun as well!

Some group shots:

We also got a chance to help out with a local bar there and took some photos for their brochure. We were glad to help, especially when we get free drinks. More on this on a future post. Man I love Coron!