The most charming child I photographed in Laguna Province, on my very first trip to the Philippines in April 2003. "Laguna Little-Girl" from page one of my first Philippines Gallery - I don't know her name, and I only shot a few images of her & her family that day; this child & the other children I photographed there in that neighborhood are directly responsible for my interest in the very type of informal street-shooting I'm doing there to this day - so she's got her own Gallery now.

I'd come to Laguna to photograph some furniture for a friend (in the 2nd. image you can see the men bringing some chairs outside to the courtyard) - as I stopped at the Aling Ising Store for a soda, she saw me with the camera and immediately came over to me and posing & smiling, as though she was "expecting" me to arrive to shoot her modeling portfolio! She melted my heart that day, as all the local kids did - but she's got her own Gallery now, the most charming child in Laguna Philippines.