Photography: Baptism: Ser Jacob

For some reason, I stopped blogging about the different event coverages and photo shoots that we (or Paul rather) does. Not that it was planned or anything, things just got busy (most probably) and while, we have been blessed with a number of commissions for the past few weeks, I realized that I should also get back to writing about them. So here I am! 

First, we have Ser Jacob's Christening; I'm not sure if his full name is a shout out to how 
George R.R. Martin wrote the "Game of Thrones" books, as someone who has read the books, I know that 'Ser' is how the knights were addressed in the book~if that is the case then creativity points go to his parents! 

I wasn't so sure about what to write about the event, given that I wasn't even there but as I was looking through the photos, I realized how as a parent (naks!) time is indeed a fleeting moment. Just earlier we were  buying clothes for Luke and I realized that before we used to buy small newborn clothes for him and now we're buying clothes for 9-12 months! (huhuhu) 

I suddenly missed how small Luke was before, he's big now and wrestles his poor mom. Have you seen his legs?! Just one leg drop will make you catch your breath! He also has this habit of throwing his full weight on you and just landing on you-completely taking the breath out of you (and not in the good way).  

So yes moms and dads, hold your little ones tighter and longer, smell their baby smell and treasure it. Make sure to celebrate the little things as well (includes Baptism) and always make sure to have beautiful photos taken to capture these moments~that will be over before you know it! 

Well what do you know, my sentimental side got the best of me (as it always does) and I was able to reflect and write about an important reminder from Ser Jacob's lovely baptism photos! Thank you Mommy and Daddy for trusting us and here's to more and more happy memories! 

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Preview: Ser Jacob's Christening

Last May 5, 2018 a friend asked me to capture a milestone for his 1st born son, Jacob.  Always a joy and a pleasure to be part of a family milestone.

Looking forward to post processing images taken and will be uploading more later.

I'd have to apologize since I haven't been writing or blogging about photography. I'll do my best to post something every so often.

PJ's Christening and First Birthday

While we love shooting and covering events in our hometown of Antipolo, driving to Manila is always a refreshing change, especially when we get to cover a lifetime event at the University of Santo Thomas church no less!

Which is why we were thrilled to cover Pj's Christening and First Birthday party.  Aside from Pj, being a totally cute baby, it was overwhelming to see this little bundle of joy be surrounded by family and friends who love him dearly.

Needless to say the kid has some awesome Baptism photos he can bring to school one day!

After his Christening, the reception was also his first birthday celebration and he left his white baptism clothes and appeared in a full F1 Racer getup! To match his 'Cars' theme of course!

Perfect for a little boy's first birthday party! Kudos to Mommy Pebbles for taking care of all the little details! :)

Thank you for having PCheng Photography cover these milestones in your life Pj! :)

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Sabina's Christening

Kat - Sabina's mom tagged me to shoot her daughter's Christening. I always adored kids and families, and I love to be part of important occasions.  As mentioned in a Facebook post: " My wife never had any photographs of her Christening."  The thought of that scares me, when it comes to important milestones of our family. As a photographer, I will commit to capturing these important moments.

 I'd stab myself in the eye if that ever happens to me and my future kids.

Back when Kat was working in the same office as me, I listened to her stories about her family's adventures. As I watch (Facebook newsfeeds) I got to see their family grow and then I recently discovered that Kat was pregnant and having a baby. It seems that they were blessed with a baby girl, Sabina Keila and I was honored to have been tapped to cover her Christening.

More photos here.

Calla's Christening

December was a really busy time for us, I think that the holidays puts people in an extra festive mood :p I was asked to cover yet another Christening for a colleague of mine at work. This time it was for Boss Ichi's first born daughter Calla.

It was one of those mass Christenings where in you would have to compete with other hired photographers to get that winning shot of your baby (the baby whose Christening you covering of course). I was surprised that the other photographers brought along with them their own lights. It was a good thing though as I was able to borrow of from their light for my own photos. 

I've noticed that some churches are becoming more strict when it comes to photographers and videographers covering their sacraments and ceremonies, for this particular one though, there were no rules and it was literally like a free-for-all for us photographers. 

Calla is indeed a lucky baby to have been born to a large, tight-knit and fun loving family who cooed at and passed her around with much love and care. I guess I'm lucky too because the babies whose Christening I've been covering lately are not cry babies at all (so far-which makes shooting much easier) I hope my luck continues :p 

Ica told me the story of when she was baptized back in 1986, one of her godfathers promised to develop the film of the christening, (kids, digital photography was yet to be born at that time-photos from captured in film and processed and developed in dark rooms-Google it) but somehow the film got lost and so Ica had no Christening photos, so whenever she had to bring photos of her Baptism for her assignment in school, she had to bring the baptism photos of her sister. I guess kids nowadays won't lack for photos of their milestones in life-what with all the mobile phones with cameras and selfie sticks that people bring around but I guess what I can bring to the table is that you get to sit back and relax and enjoy your event while I do all the heavy work and lifting - so to speak.

Juami's Christening

The Proud Parents with their beautiful dessert set up and cute Juami photos!

Benjo and I go way back, we were actually classmates in the First Grade in Lourdes Mandaluyong, Years late we found out that our office mates/friends in the BPO industry were actually common friends, and so the story goes. He eventually asked me to shoot for Air Asia's Philippine Patriots back in  - yes I also used to shoot and cover Basket Ball Games photos here.


So it was really an honor for me to have been asked to cover the Christening of his first born son, Juan Miguel or Juami for short :)

Now this was actually on that Saturday which I have hence forth dubbed as 'Shatter-days' since we came straight from work then attended the Tamron Goes Wild event in Fairview and raced back to Eastwood for the Christening.

So even if I was really tired I still wanted to take good photos of the event, this is after all a once in a lifetime event for little Juami who was so cute and charming, he wasn't crying at all and everyone was cooing at him and his cuteness.

It was nice to see his Grandparents hover over him, and you can see the love overflowing in their eyes, it was especially touching to see Juami hold on to his Lolo's finger.

It was a great gathering of family and friends to celebrate Juami being part of the Christian world.

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Alex's Christening and First Birthday

We attended a Christening and we weren't the godparents which is different especially since I always make the joke that "We're always the Godparent but never the Parent". Even if we weren't the parents or the Godparents we still had a role to play since we were commissioned to take photos of the event.

It was baby Alex's Christening and First Birthday Party and I just have to say that Paul really has a thing with kids, he'd always tell me that they (the kids) can't resist his charms, well you're preaching to the choir. 

We were extra excited for this event since the Christening was going to be at Christ the King Parish in Taytay AKA "Church in the Sky" and a church like that definitely deserves to be visited right? Technically you had to go "up" a road to get to the church, you take a left when you reach Muzon a Elementary school and just go 'up, up'. Once you reach the church it's really beautiful and it really lives up to its name. It was a nice and peaceful church, with it's location away from busy streets and public markets it's really easy to focus and pray without all the distractions. 

The Baptism was really well organized, it started on time and went on real smoothly. :) 

After the Baptism, guests proceeded to Max's in Taytay for the reception and I just have to go ahead and mention that with the recent renovation of the place, there were more function rooms, we love the ambient light in the room and the set up with the separate tables and chairs. 

There was a variety of entertainment for everybody. Funny clowns for the kids but who still catered to the humor of the adults (at the expense of the kids though), a salon for the young girls to get their hair done (along with temporary color, nails painted and they could even have their faces painted. Needless to say the adults enjoyed the salon's services too!