Lindsey Hayes - on location studio

This is a session with the beautiful Lindsey. I had an on location session with her good friend fellow model Jessica Pike a week prior. Lindsey also wanted to brush up on her modeling skills after a near 2 months of rest from photo shoots. We set a portable studio in her condo and I would like to thank her husband Kyle for keeping the cat in the room while the session was on going.

Here's some of my faves...

Jessica Pike - on location studio work

Jess is one of the models I currently work with, it was time to find a place for an indoor session, its COLD outside this time of year. Such a pleasure working in such a beautiful house. Jess' house is a combination of cool and elegant, with really funky color theme but a very classy architecture. The house was just our location...this session is all about Jess.

Here's some of my fave's.

DUO - Lindsay and Ashley

Thanks Aris Aguila for the invite to your photo session with these two beautiful ladies...Lindsay Vein and Ashley Day

Here's what I call "DUO", a set with both ladies together.

Gerry Munda's Mentorship Session

This album was my personal photos from Gerry Munda's mentorship session for landscape/travel photography.

I met Gerry initially to plan a workshop for FIDA on fashion photography. With Gerry's busy schedule we never had a chance to properly market the workshop. Gerry however called me up for a personal mentorship on landscape and travel photography. I was really surprised with the topic he wanted covered...after all he is a fashion school director in Davao City. He then told me stories of his travels and it made sense why he wanted to get some tips on the topic.

Thanks Gerry for such an awesome day out.

Bored at Work, Cheska's Ring

"Bored at Work" is a series I am starting with my personal photography at work. I always have a camera with me and when I have a lot of free time from my designing commitments I look around to see what I can photograph.

I am featuring my wife's wedding ring here... I designed this piece for her as well.

Bored at Work, Explorer

"Bored at Work" is a series I am starting with my personal photography at work. I always have a camera with me and when I have a lot of free time from my designing commitments I look around to see what I can photograph.

"Explorer" is the watch I was wearing this day.

Droplets - Fine Art

I love creating my personal photographs... these are FINE ART photos that I create for myself and present to collectors and/or galleries to hopefully add to their collection. I started photography with these images, this is the start of my journey in this field.

I woke up one morning and just went outside our house to see the morning dewdrops...I quicky ran inside to grab my Olympus E3 with the legendary Zuiko 50mm f2 Macro and my Olympus FL50r. I had the flash triggered through its RC mode, providing my "one light" source.

Here's my faves that day.

Kaylee Gauthier

It's a good year ago since Kaylee and I have been communicating to schedule a portrait session. With all my travels back and forth to the Philippines and my very hectic Canadian schedule, we can't seem to finalize anything. Kaylee was also in school and working so its not the easiest to make our schedule fit each other. Despite the long wait we finally booked a date for her session... we decided to go to the best indoor location in Winnipeg, the Manitoba Legislative Building. The "Lege" is a very cool location... it offers a ton of variety in one spot, providing you have the proper lighting set-up.

We picked an indoor location due to the sub-zero temperature outside here in Winnipeg. Only one model so far braved the -20 degree temperature to do a shoot with me, Heather B., my official concept model. It is not easy to work with someone for the first time in REALLY COLD weather. Too much chances of wasting each others' time. She will be shivering and my hands will feel like it's about to be amputated..not much good photos can possibly come from these conditions..lol.

November 24 2010 was snowing very badly... almost like blizzard condition, good that we did decide to do the session indoors. I met Kaylee inside the Legislative Building and as I was registering with security to get in, he advised me that I am not allowed to put up any lighting accessories. I was like thinking... how can I make this work, the building is quite dark inside and with the snow on the glass roof makes it even darker. I decided to ask security if I can use strobes without any light stands...and he said OK. So we went on with the session.

Here's some of my faves from our session.