Pio Lorenzo: Baptism

October 11, 2008
Santuario de San Antonio Parish
Mahogany Place Clubhouse

About a month after we did Pio's portrait session, I found myself at their lovely home again, this time to photograph his baptism. Pio was much more relaxed this time so we were able to take a few nice shots of him before heading for the church.

Here are a few of my favorites from the day...

Some of the cute details. They used one of my favorite shots from the portrait session on the invites and the guestbook.:)




Getting dressed with the help of mom and dad.

A couple of shots of the beautiful family.

During the pouring of the holy water, it's usually just the mommy (or whoever is holding the baby) that fits into my frame. I try hard to position myself so that I could fit both parents in the photos, but more often than not, the other parent is usually standing just outside my range. Daddy Patrick made it so much easier for me by standing between the priest and Mommy Des.:)




The reception was held at their village clubhouse. I loved the simple but cute details that they added to make the venue more colorful.




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Working from bed... (AND the Lau Family portrait session)

A lot of people would opt to work from home when they get sick. I, on the other hand normally work from my house (sometimes I do work in a coffee shop just for a change of scenery), so now that I am sick, I'm actually working in bed. It must have been the really chilly weather during my last two weddings in Nasugbu and Lipa. I fell sick Saturday night and it got worse Sunday that I couldn't go with Kix to a wedding yesterday.:( To make things worse, we still have tons of shopping to do and I still have a lot of stuff to finish. Hay.

Anyway, I shouldn't really be complaining. All in all, this was a very good year for me and my family. Let's just hope I will be well enough to celebrate it tomorrow.:)

And just to make this post much more exciting, here are photos from a beautiful family portrait session I did at the start of this month. These are Laurence, Cindy, and little Lyncee. We did the photoshoot at a nice place in Antipolo called Jardin de Miramar. It was my first time there but I loved it so much that I immediately recommended the place to a couple friends who asked me to shoot their engagement photos just two days after this pictorial.

When Cindy showed up made up by the very talented EJ Litiatco, and when she told me about their outfits for the shoot, I knew it was going to be a great afternoon for me.:)

Here are some of my favorites from the day.:)

I love Lyncee's expression here.:D


Lyncee wasn't very comfortable being in a new place with a stranger pointing a big camera at her...




I asked Laurence and Cindy if they could let Lyncee run around for a bit so she could feel more comfortable. Here is one of the very very few shots showing Lyncee's pretty smile.

My favorite shot of Lyncee.

Then it was time to change into their Christmas outfits and go into the Casa Santa which consists of a collection of thousands of Santa's from all over the world. We were told that the owner collected the items in the span of 13 years!

My favorite among their Christmas photos.:)






Lyncee wasn't in the mood anymore but I asked if we could take a few couple shots before wrapping things up.:)

I'll try to post some more later, but in case I don't get to post until after Christmas anymore, I just wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!:)

Still here... (PLUS Damian and Anna's engagement session!)

I'm sorry I've been neglecting this blog again. This was probably the longest that I have not been on here this year. I have just been too busy the past few weeks. I went through my records and, as of now, I am 24 blog entries behind! I still have about a dozen or so kiddie parties and baptisms to post, plus I have a couple of really lovely family portrait sessions to share with you, a few engagement sessions, and of course, some weddings. Don't worry though, I promise to post everything.

I am now down to my last two weddings of the year and a couple of portrait sessions. (Wohoo!) I am really looking forward to taking a short break from shooting events so I can catch up on my other activities like blogging (I probably have to post multiple times per day between now until the end of the month), editing, etc. And, of course, I'm looking forward to spending more time with my family this holiday season.

And for those who come to my blog just for the photos, here is an engagement session that I took about a week ago. I am posting this ahead of the other sessions that I have done because Damian and Anna just got married yesterday at the beautiful Caleruega church, and I had the honor to be there to photograph their special day for them. They are both based in Chicago and just flew in early last week for their church wedding (They were already married through civil rites in the States). Although I knew Anna from college, it was my first time to meet Damian during our pictorial. He's a bit shy and isn't too comfortable in front of the camera. Anna is a natural though, so the session was fairly smooth.

I woke up the day of the pictorial to a very heavy rainshower (I've been so unlucky with the weather these past couple of months. I always get rain on days when I'm scheduled to do a photoshoot.:P). I texted Anna to ask if we were still going to push through with the pictorial even with the rains. She said yes, and I prayed really hard that the skies would be kinder in the afternoon. Fortunately, the rain stopped and although we still didn't get the sunny skies that we were hoping for, it was good enough for me.

Here are a few of my favorite shots from the Damian and Anna's engagement pictorial.

One of the first few shots. These guys really look so happy together.




Not exactly the bright sunshine that I love, but the diffused sunlight through the trees was really nice, too.

I love my lens.:D


We didn't want to pay the PhP200 fee.:D


Anna's dad drove them around for the pictorial, and at the hotel yesterday, he told me he was wondering what the hell we were doing taking pictures in front of a rusty old door. He told me he was surprised how great it turned out in the photos.:)

Love the light. Love the expressions even more.:)

Damian told me these next two were his favorites. They actually are mine, too.




But I do love these next two as well.:)

Damian and Anna, it was really great working with you guys! I hope you enjoy your honeymoon in Bohol!:)