Photography: Baby Photoshoot: Laurisse

We love taking photos of your babies! 

With three older Ate's, Issi's mom has her hands pretty full but that's not an excuse to make sure that she has a great Christening celebration up ahead. We were tapped to do a baby photoshoot at the comfort and convenience of their home, for photos to be printed for the reception and here are some of the photos. :) 

No need to go to the mall to have your own baby photoshoot done! 

As a mom, I know how much energy goes through getting your baby ready to leave the house, it is like a production number with all the things that you need to bring, as well as the costumes and props for the shoot but if you can have the photographer go to your home instead-now that would definitely take a load of what you have to think about! 

BONUS MATERIAL

While Paul was trying to get the exposure for the photoshoot, Issi's Ate came along and was curious about all the excitement. Paul asked her to join the test shots :) 

I belong to a trio of sisters (feeling Charmed ones) LOL and it is a unique bond which can't easily be described, you grow up being protective of each other yet also being conscious and competitive at the same time. You argue about borrowing each other's clothes and shoes and beauty paraphernalia but you still do it anyway.

No matter what happens, it doesn't matter how many years pass by, or how many boys may come along the way, you always come back to that familiar bond that only those of you in that special circle understand. Shout out to my sisters~unfortunately you have one sentimental, cry baby for an 'ate'.   

I know Issi or her sisters may not know it yet but they are also part of that special bond and sisterhood and it is a beautiful thing, indeed. 

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Kevin & Aimee

Aimee and I go way back in College. So we were really happy to have been asked to do an engagement and family shoot for Aimee, Kevin and Naomi, our Godaughter.

Naomi has always been very smart and at four years old, she's very talkative and inquisitive (in straight English, mind you) and is obsessed with Zombies, Ninang Ica could not be more proud :) 

We took the lovely family up a hill inside our subdivision. It was a beautiful afternoon and despite almost running out of sunlight we were still able to take lots of photos!

Kudos to Kevin & Aimee's team of make up artists, assistants and to Kevin's mom for helping out, they had props ready and this made the shoot so much easier :) 

We love the photos and can't wait for December - for the wedding!

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Dizon Family Shoot

We were excited to have been asked to shoot the Dizon family. Seeing family shoots in controlled studios has been so common you can find it in most Filipino living rooms so we wanted to do something more natural and take it outdoors. 

We scheduled to have the shoot at 30th Track in BGC. Since BGC is camera friendly we shouldn't have any problems with guards asking us to stop shooting. 

Although we only had a few hours of sunlight left we were still able to capture beautiful photos of the family. They recently moved to the South And have yet to fill their home with pictures. We're honored that they'll be using our photos. 

Family shoots is also a great idea since Christmas is just around the corner. You can have photos for your Christmas Greeting Cards! 

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Sam's First Birthday

It's funny how the people you knew way back in College have a funny way of coming back in your lives and I feel really blessed that we still get to see our friends from Hugh School and College, I guess it's one of the perks of not moving away from Antipolo. 

A couple of weeks ago we were asked to cover Sam's first birthday. Sam is actually the nephew of one of our College friends and his mom was a batch lower me in College. It was nice to see familiar faces and get to see family and friends come together to celebrate a milestone in little Sam's life.

Happy Birthday Sam!

More photos here!

Be happy. Love Your Life Now.

Quick Dip in the Sofitel Pool :) 

Life is never easy, there are always challenges, struggles and trials but sometimes all we need is a positive perspective and a little luck to help us be happy and love our life.

Lifestyle TV has this beautiful campaign about loving your life now and with all the negative energy and bad news going around we definitely need this touch of optimism in our lives. 

I saw online that they were having a Love Your Life contest, mechanics were to simply cut out paper hearts and have a photo taken of holding this up against something that makes you love your life now. 

It was very simple and had such a positive outlook that Paul and I jumped at the challenge. From the different things that we love in life we decided to feature photography/photos. We took some printed photos we had, an old Minolta film camera and an old film and set them up on a piece of wood which was actually cut from one of the trees in the house. We cut paper hearts and scattered them on our set up and had one hand (mine) hold one paper heart. It was fun working on the styling and the shoot and doing the write up for the piece. 

This was our entry in the contest :) 

With a little hard work and a little luck we won an overnight stay for two at Sofitel Manila with breakfast and Statement Tees! 

We were so lucky and winning the hotel stay came right in time for our 10th anniversary (as a couple) and Asia Pop Comiccon (will be posting more on that soon!) which was held at World Trade Center -just across Sofitel! Talk about great timing and coincidence right?! 

Sofitel was just so beautiful and luxurious it was so easy Love Your Life! We were working hard covering APCC and we got to go home to what was literally a stone's throw away and it wasn't just any home but a room in Sofitel! We had only won a Superior Room but we were upgraded to a Luxury Suite! After a long day covering the event we got to rest, in the best way possible. 

The next morning we enjoyed the Manila Bay view, swam a bit in the pool (which my Grand Uncle designed by the way) and had a hearty breakfast. After relaxing for a bit it was time to Check Out and go back to covering Day 3 of Asia Pop Comiccon. 

It was an unconventional way of celebrating an Anniversary but Paul and I are very passionate about what we do and getting the chance to take photos, cover events and write makes us love our life! 

Thank you to Lifestyle TV and Sofitel! It was a great misadventure! 

#LoveYourLifeNow ❤️❤️❤️

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Team Rey Photoshoot

Last year Rey was part of Team Gian's Best Team Photoshoot, ironically (or was it a twist of fate?) taking center stage in the final tarp which was printed. Now he has his own team and just to prove how hard working and dedicated he is, had his own Best Team Photoshoot.

Fortunately we were able to find an undiscovered location which made their shoot fun and a little bit adventurous (I mean look at that view!)

Congratulations Team Rey!

More photos here.

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.

Team Ross Photoshoot

It's always a challenge to shoot large groups which was the case for Team Ross but the good thing about them is that they are also a fun group who didn't mind squeezing in tight for the photos.

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Team PCheng 2014 Recap: A look back at the year that was

2014 was a big year for us. We had big projects and arguably more projects that we ever had and we're very grateful for that- it just shows that all our hard work is finally paying off. Aside from the increase in projects we also got new equipment to help us with all the Team PCheng work, until recently Paul and I would have to share with my old HP laptop when working on photos for him and writing blog posts for me. Now this old HP laptop, is really old and really slow, we suspect some hardware problem with the heat sync or the cooling pad, or the thermal paste with the processor, something like that (I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about-because I don't). Basically the laptop overheats so much that it's so slow we have to put electric fans in front of it just so we can (barely) use it. But last August 2014 I won a freaking iPad mini! (Thank you Sky Cable! ^_^)

Julz Savard of Save Me Hollywood opening for Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
in March at Eastwood City. 

The plan is to have the laptop fixed - you know just in case we need to bring work with us or maybe travel and work at the same time or have work as travel (any excuse just to travel, because we're not just a couple of nerds who like to stay at home to watch movies and DVDs, we like to travel too! And my wish for 2015 is to get to travel more :p Even if it means bringing work along-we do 't mind). 

So going back to the recap - Paul and I had to take turns using the really slow laptop, so having the iPad, I got to do blogging and some social media managing on the tablet while Paul worked on photos on the laptop. Before the year ended though we were finally able to get a new PC (thanks to our 13th month pay) and so even if it's not the PC specs that Paul would have liked it definitely has made things faster for us. It's really important for me to mention this upgrade as I am eternally grateful for it, especially when I think about how we would have to take turns with the old laptop before but now we each can get some work done at a faster and more efficient speed. Definitely a big highlight for our 2014! ^_^

We were tapped by Tokyo Bubble Tea to feature their new Milo Series of Drinks as well as other yummy food - hoping to get to blog more about food this year -
gotta watch the waist line though! :P 

Although we, for some reason covered less music shows, concerts and gigs for this year (blame our ugly schedule, which aside from night shifts also meant working on weekends) we got to have a wider scope of things to cover and blog about. For one, it was our first year to be part of Nuffnang which meant more blogging opportunities for us. We got to attend a couple of blocked screenings and win and enjoy prizes - remember all those Cadbury chocolate?! Yup- all thanks to Nuffnang! Definitely looking forward to more blogging opportunities with them and maybe win even bigger prizes in 2015. 

And as if we were cementing our foot hold in the blogging community, it was also our first time to attend Blogapalooza - we had fun even if we were dead tired since once again we had to come from work :p Will definitely attend this year but will make more preparations (file leaves and get enough rest) ^_^

Sealed with a kiss. Our biggest project up to date getting to cover the
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Dayanghirang.
#DevAndEmEverAfter

Carvings at Pinto Art Gallery in Antipolo. 

This 2014 we also got to blog and feature a couple of galleries and attend opening of art exhibits of some artist friends. Hoping to get to do more of that in 2015 ^_^ 

We also officially became a partner blogger for Amplify.ph :) so even if we haven't been covering as much local gigs as we would have wanted, we got to feature a lot of up and coming local acts on the blog. We even got to meet Iligan based band Loop when they came over to Manila and for us who support local music as much as we do it was really an honor. It was like a culmination of our 2014 support of OPM. While there was a decrease in covering local gigs we got to do more album/EP reviews this year and I'm looking forward to doing more in 2015.

Iligan based band Loop during the Route 196 show of their Manila tour. 

Noticeably we had more projects this year- we have been tapped to cover weddings, birthdays, christening and a couple of team shoots. Even if it meant loosing rest and sleep at times, Paul and I went ahead and pursued these projects. It was an honor being able to capture memories in photos. Throughout 2014, Paul and I also continued on with our crusade to bring printed photos back in this day and age, where everything is digital and every one is just happy uploading everything on social media but Paul believes that photos just shouldn't end on your timeline but should be printed as well. I guess that's just our being 'old' :P For 2015 we will definitely continue on printing photos and sharing that with not only our clients but with people we meet. I'm hoping to get to buy an Instax, so we can have photos printed (through polaroids) right away. Maybe in the future (or in this year) we can include that in our photography packages. ^_^

2014 was a big year for us and as we begin with the first few days of 2015, Paul and I will continue to treat everything as we had like one big misadventure. Thank you for everyone who has been part of our 2014, whether you were a client, a follower or a reader, thank you so much for the support! Hoping that you'll join us for another crazy ride in 2015.

Click HERE for More Photos of our 2014 Recap!