Just dropping by to greet you all a Happy New Year. I’m wishing you all more laughters, love and great health. For us creative people, more ideas to inspire others.

Taken at Mana, Davao

I have a lot of plans for this year, for Yellow Hauz, Artisan and for myself as well. I really hope they will come to reality as I plan it to be. As I was watching Eat Pray Love, it made me think of a word for myself, and somehow I’ve thought of inspire. I have been thinking of that word in case I’ll get a tattoo. It’s such a powerful word that it involves bringing the best in others, and that is such a wonderful feeling.

As Steve Jobs said “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish,” very well said, coming from the greatest inspiring man of all time. How about you? Have you thought of your word goal?

I got addicted to Jack, my lomo cam… It’s actually a little harder than using Oris {my Nikon d40}, it’s inconvenient and expensive. Taking the shots were not as easy as I thought, and the process of going to the mall to have it developed and scanned; the expenses you occur for the film and contact print, whew! All that effort… but it’s all worth it… I tell you.

First film roll was totally experimental. I took this months ago, I was just lazy to post it, hehe… Anyway, Heintje, gave me his old films {luckily, he likes keeping his old things}. It’s a 35mm YKL, though expired, still very much okay to use… then I have it developed in NCCC Mall and here’s the result.

When we went to Tagaytay for our Manila shoot, of course I brought my little baby with me. Heintje {the one holding a camera} also used his beautiful old Mamiya medium format camera {lower right photo}. It’s like we had a film gig, lol. Anyway, he knew an old time developer shop there, so I had this film developed too. Oh I really liked how they developed it and their contact print were very nice too, feels like you’re an old timer photographer, hihi.

After using my expired films, I bought one of the Lomo film bundles-Red scale {available in GMall} for a change. I wanted to try the saturated color film but bought the wrong one. However, I think, it looked okay though…

After 10 rolls, I am still not an expert. I’m still having a hard time taking the right shots. Most of my rolls are overexposed or under exposed until now. My golly… I don’t want to count how much I spent already. But nonetheless, I really find it fun, especially, it’s still not yet popular here in Davao.

Hopefully, after my 12th roll, I’m getting good at it…. and hopefully, I can buy my next lomo cam… I’m eyeing for Lubitel. But for now, I’m truly happy with my little Jack.