Holy Week in Baguio

Went up for the Holiday with the family and my new toy!! Got myself a fisheye! Use it for 3 days straight and you kinda get overwhelmed by it. or it could be just me! hehe

Hey! that's my foot!

Here fishy fishy fishy!

First shot with my new fishy! This is the view from our condo. not bad! hehe

WHAT?!?! ME?!

Went to our OB-GYN and man the news we got was priceless! Make a wild guess!
Let's see how that lil ol peanut turns out!

PSYCHED!!

Junnal and Lala's Wedding

First time to go to shoot an Iglesia ni Cristo wedding. It really was something else, the men stayed on one side of the isle and the women on the other. Well, theres a lot more I noticed from my religion (Catholic) and other Christian churches, but lets not get into that right now.

Congratulations guys!

Happy Valentine's Day to ME!

Got the best Valentines gift ever! Wouldn't trade this for anything in the world! Thanks honey!

Picture Porter Elite
from Digitalfoci

A little too much at first glance, but after you see all it can do... maybe you would think things over.

This is the Picture Porter Elite from Digital Foci.
It Basically is a media storage handler for all your digital media, whether it be music, photos or video it stores it, plays it and views it. Its 40gb up to 160gb hard disc gives you more than enough space to store just about anything! Although currently all i have left is the 120gb. First weekend i had it, the 160gbs were wiped out! It's in its carrying and display case.

It has an on board CF I/II and microdrive also an SD, MMC, MS reader! just plug your memory stick in and download it into the picture porter.



Play your music and videos even without earphones. It has a bulit in speaker that gives out pretty decent sound. Audio outs and video outs from the porter allow you to play your music or video on your component system or your plasma screen at home! Video and Audio ins are also supported, so you can record your favorite show or DVD movie striaght from your source! For scheduled programs there is also a timer on the porter so just set the time and leave it! it will record everything on that time frame... pretty cool huh?

An FM reciever adds a little want to this little toy. included earphones also serves as your antenna Everything that you need for everything i mentioned here is included in the picture porter elite box! Well except for the stick adapters for you RS SD or the reduced MMS and the MS duo and MS M2.



It supports almost all kinds of file types, but whats even better is that it stores RAW files. Heres a photo shot from my canon 30D. Dumped it straight from my CF card and viewed it. It takes about 4 minutes to transfer a whole 1gig CF card to the porter.

Here are the manufacturers release notes...
Your Ultimate Digital Camera Companion
With Picture Porter Elite, you can instantly back up your precious pictures so you can keep snapping away. Simply insert the memory card from your digital camera into Picture Porter Elite and download images into its built-in hard drive. Never worry about running out of memory card space again. You can copy and archive photos directly from memory cards, without the need for lugging around a heavy laptop. With its large LCD display, you can clearly inspect the photos before deciding which are keepers and which to need to be re-shot.

Picture Porter Elite works with all popular media card formats, including CF I/ II, MD , MMC , SD/HC Card, Memory Stick, MS PRO, and MS Duo, MS PRO Duo, and xD-Picture Card. You can also easily make yourself copies of photos taken from friend's and family member's digital cameras for instant archival of special picture moments.

Portable Digital Photo Album & Entertainment Center
With its high-capacity hard drive, you can now carry your collection of digital photos and video with you and view them anywhere. While viewing photos on Picture Porter Elite's large 3.6" LCD screen, you can rotate, zoom, pan, view EXIF information and histogram, and play picture slideshows of your images (including RAW image content!) . You can also connect Picture Porter Elite to a TV and share your photos and music with family and friends on a big screen in the comfort of your living room. Picture Porter Elite also supports various music and video formats so you can keep your collection of media content in one place for easy access.

Print without a Computer
Picture Porter Elite supports the PictBridge standard so you can print directly to any PictBridge compliant printer without a computer. All you have to do is connect Picture Porter Elite by USB to a PictBridge compliant printer and print JPEG photos as you view them on the Picture Porter Elite screen. Imagine the convenience of printing photos directly to your printer without the hassle of using a PC or complicated image-editing software!

Voice/Video Recorder
With built-in microphone and recording capability, you can use Picture Porter Elite as a voice recorder to record lectures, interviews, or conferences. Picture Porter Elite also records videos straight from TV or any other video source with a scheduled recording function. Using high-compression MPEG-4 encoding, Picture Porter Elite keeps the file sizes small for easy sharing while maintaining a high level of picture and sound quality.

Data Bridge
Compatible with Windows and Mac, Picture Porter Elite lets you easily transfer files to and from your computer through its high-speed USB 2 connection. Moreover, bi-directional data transfer lets you copy files directly from any memory card to the Picture Porter Elite hard drive and vice versa.

Photo Safe
from Digital Foci

This is you basic transfer tool straight from your digital cameras memory card straight here without the use of your computer. Currently, i have 80gb and 120gb models on stock.


Straight out of the box, you notice its a fairly simple gadget, turn it on, stick your card in (and not in any obscene way hehe) and you can transfer your 1gb cf card in around 4 mins.

It supports CompactFlash I & II, MicroDrive, MMC, SD/HC, Sony Memory Stick, MS pro and XD but anything smaller you're going to need an adapter, which comes with the reduced cards you buy anyways, so no problem!


Fits in your pocket as scaled here right beside a pack of smokes.

Here are the manufacturers product details...
An essential digital camera companion – a portable photo storage device
Imagine being on vacation and you are snapping digital pictures like crazy. Having Photo Safe with you means having a place to save your precious pictures so you can keep snapping away. Just insert the digital camera memory card into Photo Safe and directly download images - no cumbersome cabling or computer needed. Never worry about running out of memory card space again. Photo Safe frees up expensive memory card space and lets you reuse your memory card to keep shooting. When you get home, simply connect Photo Safe to your computer to retrieve your saved pictures.

Photo Safe easily copies the entire content of your memory card with the convenient one-touch Auto Copy button with copy speeds of up to 3.4MB/sec, so a full 1GB card can be copied in approximately 5 minutes. (High speed card will copy faster - for example, it can copy a full 1GB Ultra II SD card in about 3.5 minutes). Photo Safe works with all popular card formats, including CF, MicroDrive, xD-Picture Card, MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo. You can also make copies of photos taken from friend's and family's cameras by inserting their cards into Photo Safe for instant archival of special moments.

Its text/icon backlit LED screen shows key system information, including operational status, battery life, remaining hard drive capacity, and active partition (Photo Safe supports multiple hard drive partitions). Copy status indicator displays percentage completed during copy, copy confirmation, and number of files copied upon completion.

A unique folder name that indicates media card type and copy sequence is automatically created for each copy task to help you keep organized. When you get home, simply connect Photo Safe to your computer to retrieve your saved pictures. With its user-replaceable Li-Ion battery that is rechargeable via computer USB port or external AC power, Photo Safe provides the ultimate convenience both at home and on the go.

When connected to a computer, Photo Safe also functions as an external hard drive and memory card reader. Use Photo Safe to back up and archive digital images, music and important files from your computer through its high-speed USB 2 connection. Photo Safe is compatible with both Windows and Mac.

Shangri-la Mactan
Cebu

Went to Cebu to attend a wedding. Perfect weather! we were really lucky! Got a lot of sun and really cool weather in the evenings... Parang hindi Pilipinas sa Mactan!

Oh by the way... this is a perfect example of why you shouldnt delete photos from your camera... didnt even notice the bent over lady till i uploaded to my computer. hassle. and i thought this was my money shot. hehe

Boracay

November 2007

Went to Boracay the day after halloween and i thought of sharing my photos... different take this time. No day time fancies. Hopia like it!

Happy Birthday Boss!

It was my friends kids birthday and we thought of taking his photo for the party. He was dressed in traditional Chinese clothes, but the kicker was... look at his expression. Like a Triad Boss Who's pissed! haha