As a child, I dreamed to be an architect, an artist or a story writer. I grew up to realize all I had were dreams. Born by under-privileged parents from a remote village, I worked and study to finish a degree, any degree I could take for that matter, without drawn-out plans for the future.

I always wish I had a camera to capture and freeze the moments I considered precious. My wish, however, doesn't come early nor easy. I had my first analog SLR camera at the time when it was hard for me to figure out the difference between shutter and aperture, the correct combination of both, and the depth of field that I had to remember before I point and shoot because of old age. My right and left brain lobes were fighting whether I would go symmetrical or follow the rule of the thirds. Day by day, little by little, the issue of composition was becoming less painful with the coming of the digital cameras mainly due to crop and a little software manipulation. Yet, after more than two years of shooting and playing the pictures I took in my computer, I have yet to produce that eye-popping, jaw dropping photographs I used to see here in PBase.

At any rate, I have my pictures posted for families and friends to see. If you happen to drop by on a wrong turn, don't let your jaw drop and eyes pop: it's ILLEGAL.
 

  NEWS:

June 22, 2007 -- Sheila and her family visited us (click here to see the gallery).  It was a good chance to test my camera again since I was not shooting that much after the wedding.  The shooting condition was quite difficult because of harsh light that day.

May 20, 2007 -- It's Ed and Cris wedding (click here to see the gallery).  Time to test my 5D under a low light shooting situation.

May 8, 2007 -- I'm back and with my new Canon 5D camera.  I was waiting for MKIII to be released but it seems Canon is not releasing the MKIII soon.  I am afraid I will loss the money intended for the camera before Canon release their newest DSLR.  Besides, my niece's wedding is coming soon and I need a new camera.

April 2, 2006 -- It was a long and hard struggle customizing the photo gallery.  All the while I thought it could not be done.  My HTML tables were hard to control to work both on Internet Explorer and FireFox.  I resorted implementing my menu on Flash and was not satisfied with the font only after I finished everything (sigh).

I went back to the drawing board and reviewed my CSS which I suspected the source of my HTML woes.  Indeed, it was--that darn CSS monster.

All galleries are done by now.  What left are the sub-galleries and the uploading of other photos on my family album.

March 19, 2006--The songs played in this site were dynamically assigned using static array (meaning the songs are not included in the SWF file but the array assignment was hard-coded within the file). I want a dynamic array where the assignment of values to that array will be retrieved from a text file which, in effect, I can add, delete, change the songs played by the SWF without recoding, recompiling and uploading the SWF file again. WOW! I can't believe it could be done. After several days of Internet searching, I was able to find a tutorial to do it. 

NOTE: I wonder if the code will place unwanted load to your CPU. Just in case it does, please notify me in my guestbook. I also plan to dynamically load jpg files into the "movie" instead of a static one. I hope you enjoy your visit in my gallery as I enjoy tweaking and learning the action script in Flash.

March 11, 2006--I decided to put a simple flash. Got to read some books on how to do it. :D 

March 10, 2006--After 3 days and nights battling with CSS and HTML, I am now contented with my Root Gallery. I will worry about Flash later if I have time. Meanwhile, I can now go back to my usual routine. 

  LATEST WORKS:

I stopped working on my PaD.  Now, that was the latest work I stopped working on.  LOL!  It was good that Kurly, my niece, send some pictures from Iloilo.  I think she is enjoying her first ever camera, the Kodak Z700 dig cam.