My Thai

Here is the article that appeared in Thailands second largest newspaper regarding the First Time Mobile Film Makers Award. Fellow winner Ndol sent me a digital copy to add to my collection of newspaper clippings.

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A Feast for the senses

My photographer pal Arnel had convinced me that it was advantageous to my video career to take some footage of the Feast of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo. The last time I attempted this was around 5 years ago, so I pretty much knew what I was in for. We decided to head towards Echague street to see if any of my store owner friends would be willing to let us go up and shoot from their building, we were fortunate that Josie from Mostwell was very accomodating and let us up into their 3rd floor balcony. In the end though, me & Arnel had to climb down from the balcony onto the roof of the 2nd floor since lots of electrical wires were blocking our view. The footage I shot was awesome, the entire street was literally covered with a sea of people, it was total pandemonium as soon as the procession started.

First Dive of the Year

Me & Tim got the day=off to take Wes on a diving trip to Anilao. We drove to batangas right after work on Friday but didn't arrive there till 11:30pm because of heavy traffic. This was the first time I dove on a Saturday and was surprised to see Aquaventure with so few guests, it was as if we had the whole resort all to ourselves. Our first dive was at Mainit, and it would be the deepest depth Wes had ever gone 90 ft. we were able to see 1 black tip shark & 2 schools of barracuda. The 2nd dive was at Kirby's rock which features this massive wall, water visibility was excellent so it really showed off the colorful plants & corals on the wall, there were a lot of moray eels & huge lion fishes. It was 2 very different dives, one was more action packed with stronger current & the other was an easier dive but was visually more appealing.