I Popped the Question / Our Bermuda Engagement
It was great to come home last week to good weather. Aiofe and I were spoiled with great weather Being in Bermuda for a few weeks. We brought back good weather and good news. We are engaged!! A good friend and great photographer, Jacqueline Elizabeth Morrison was there in Bermuda as well to be my […]
Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta / Helping Sick Children
How I got to meet the great people at the Calgary Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta One word: Instagram. Early last year I downloaded an app for my iPhone called Instagram. Instagram is a social networking application much like Twitter except instead of 128 characters to socialize you take pictures. On Instagram met Larry Mathieson […]
Have Fun In Everything You Do / Filipino Traffic Cop Doing His Job Like A Boss
This is a quick post to share a really strong philosophy of mine. I try to have fun with whatever I’m doing. No matter if it’s vacuuming the carpet, organizing my closet or staring at a computer screen editing photos I’d rather be behind the camera capturing images. I’d be doing photography 24/7 if I could. […]
Best Superbowl Commercial of 2012
What makes a Superbowl commercial? You have to be witty, funny, concise, smart and evoke emotion all within about a minute. Not unlike a photograph you have one chance to get your viewers to see your story and feel what you are feeling. The emotion that you get out of watching this commercial is something […]
Best of Superbowl Commercials 2012
Every year we tune in to one of the biggest sporting events in team sports. The big Superbowl game. If you’re like me then you’re not watching the big game because you want to see who ranks supreme in football but commercials. The commercials are teeming with superstar actors and sometimes production budgets bigger than […]
What Inspires You? Pt. 2
It’s been awhile since I wrote a blog post about inspiration. I thought it was about time I talked about it again. This time the theme is inspiration to keep going and moving on. Last week I was fortunate enough to meet one of my inspirations and heros. Zack Arias, an editorial and commercial photographer […]
A Look Back / Four Years In the Making
As I write this blog post I’ve been up for almost 24 hours. The life of a photographer isn’t easy. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. When I sit at my edition station tagging and sorting photos till 3am I sometimes can’t help but look back at some of my […]
Timeraiser / Volunteer for Art
As an emerging artist I have always tried to find places that would show and sell my work. A few years ago I met some nice people at Framework who organize an event called Timeraiser. After hearing what they had to say I was delighted. Finally something in the community that helps artists, non-profit organizations […]
A Month in Review / April 2011
This month was a hectic one as well. If I remember correctly I was only able to go out to one social event with my friends. This is what I’ve been up to in April: Celebrated my grandmother’s 94th birthday on the 4th! I drove up to Edmonton to visit her for a few hours. […]
A Month in Review / March 2011
Wow… time seems to fly doesn’t it? It just feels like yesterday when I got back from Vegas and the WPPI convention where I learned so much from other industry leading professionals. The picture above is from my trip last year to Arizona and Utah with my good friends Chris and Chris (yes, a couple […]
Viva Las WPPI 2011 / Meeting Rodney Lough Jr.
This was my first year at WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International). For those of you who might not know what it’s about read on. If you’re well versed in what WPPI is all about then read on anyways to hear what I thought of it. I did the trade show and a few platform […]
Portrait of My Grandmother
My 93 year old grandmother Isidra Toledo (or “Apo” as we like to call her) is a very special lady to me. I am who I am today because of her. Every time I see her I’m reminded of the times when she would babysit me while my parents were at work. I must have […]
All I Want For Christmas Is Photography
Hey everyone, just a quick post on some of the photography related gifts I got for Christmas this year… What The Duck is a comic strip by the talented Aaron Johnson. It follows the life of a photographer who happens to be a duck. Imagine why I can relate? :) The book is a […]
Hello Cyberworld! / First Post!
Hey everyone. This is my very first blog posting. I plan to do this as much as I can. So stay tuned for more content. In the meantime while the site is still being tested feel free to check out my portfolio. Just click the yellow “portfolio” button on the top right of the screen. […]
