Taal Fishkill

I guess I have to say a little something here before I show any of the photos. If you're the type to lose your lunch easily, then you should know I'm about to show you photos of rotting dead fish.
Ok? Ok. Photos after the jump.

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Bloggers United and tackling the backlog that is my life

I didn't want to be redundant and cross-post all of the photos, and anyway Melai tells the story much better. That being said, there are a couple of things I'd like to add:

Most of the photos are actually screen grabs from the event, as I attended primarily to shoot video coverage (which I mention as a way of explaining why the photos might look "different" this time around.) I'm going to be working on the video (and a couple of others) for a while and hopefully, I can make sense of the footage as the whole thing was quite run and gun, and I had to wing it all with one camera and lens.

I have to say I did have some fun observing the fashion bloggers! They are quite a creative and attractive bunch. Never thought I would ever be even marginally included in anything fashion, but there you go. Thanks Melai for letting me tag along with my camera!

Now some things you didn't get to see (and some that you did but I'm posting them again anyway):



This is a performance by Feanne Hontiveros Mauricio of the Gondo Girls. (sidebar: Goodness gracious, someone please correct me if I get any of this wrong. I am---and I say this without a shred of apprehension, pretension, and/or derision---a total noob blogger-wise.)



These are [The] Walkie-Talkies, a duo comprised by the awesome sisters Raleene and Rizza Cabrera. They are very cute.



I really like this outfit.





These are the girls from the blog The Plump Pinay , Danah and Stacy. They were really sweet and way fun to hang around with, and I know this instinctively even though all I did was pass by a couple of times to shoot them. (They gave me a nice shout-out while I was shooting them on video!)



I think that's Karl Leuterio taking other bloggers' photos.







Bloggers taking other bloggers' photos: a recurring theme actually. (Also, oooh I too am a blogger. How very meta of me.)









And actual shopping, which, sadly, I did not get to do any of.



Our intrepid host/organizer/all round do-gooder Melai giving away prizes from one of the sponsors, Tomato.



A rep from the K.I.D.S. foundation, a non-profit organization which the organizers, Melai, Pax, and Ana, partnered with for the event. Forty percent of the event's proceeds went to the projects Isang Milyong Aklat, Isang Milyong Pangarap and 100KIDScholars.

I think this is the most bloggerrrrrific I've allowed mypiratename to be, and for that I deserve a photo: (!)



This was taken before I leaned on a Close-Up standee and stained my new white oxford shirt blue. Yes, I did this while at a fashion event. Note that the only photo that exists to prove I was there was also taken inside a ladies' room. By me. That's just how I roll.

Alas the reality is my semi-glamorous, minimum-hulas moments happen few and far between and for the days after the event I was back to: 1.) shooting the rotting fishkill in Taal, 2.) commuting from one end of the city to the other (and back) for a software expo, and 3.)sweating my skin off in the nighttime sauna that is Cubao X. But those are other posts entirely.