When In Manila, one of the best gifts you can give a mother is the gift of photography.  To be able to capture her smile & who she is right now.  A keepsake that everyone would treasure for years to come.   That’s why this whole month of May we give cheers  to the Most Glamorous Women We Know: Our Moms!     Imagine Nation Photography, one of the top wedding and lifestyle [...]

      When In Manila, you gotta love this quote on food : “One cannot think, love, sleep well if one has not dined well” – Virginia Wolf   I have been on the lookout for great places to dine in the past months, and fate has led me to try out great lounge food in the metro at Seventh High.   I think  it’s very rare that you get to have a great [...]

    Are you ready for another visual experience?     When in Manila, its impossible to resist chocolate creations such as Dipped Fresh US Strawberries :           …delectable chocolate & peppermint cakes :         …cake blobs & rum cake…         …and a whole lot more!         Yum!   This one of a kind chocolate haven is also called Chocolate Fire, located [...]

    When In Manila, you can learn to shoot like a pro by maximizing the functions of your point & shoot camera.  Before photography even became my career I started with a point & shoot, mastered it until I upgraded to my first DSLR.  Don’t think just because you don’t have a DSLR you can’t take great photos and even if you do have one, and its always in auto-mode, then this workshop is [...]

  When in Bacolod, the best restaurants for any foodie on a quick trip there would be : Calea & Nena’s Rose.  There’ something sweet and authentic in store for you here.   We were there to shoot a wedding and decided to stop by Calea for some sugar-rush to pump us up for a long day ahead.         Anyone would instantly love the store design & interiors Calea had which was [...]

      When In Manila, what happens when a whole bunch of donuts are delivered to a photography studio? A lot of mouth watering photos!  It was a lazy afternoon at Imagine Nation Photography when J.CO Donuts & Coffee delivered a bunch to pump some sweet sugar into our veins!          J.CO Donuts & Coffee is an premium international brand of coffee and donuts that started in Indonesia in 2005.  Since then it has [...]

    When In Manila, capturing the Christmas spirit with your family, friends and loved ones has never been this fun!         I remember when I was younger, I used to receive a lot of postcards and greeting cards. And the whole experience of just looking at the photo in front and reading the note at the back or inside was just something that made me feel so special.  For someone to [...]

      When In Manila, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.  If it sounds familiar, its something that came from former US President John F. Kennedy which is a statement not only applicable to the United States of America but to our own beloved country as well.     In a time when most of us Filipinos would grumble at how corrupt our [...]

   When in Manila,  Makan-Makan, a great Malaysian culinary experience is is for your appetite’s taking only at my favorite buffet place : Circles Event Café at Makati Shangri-La.             You don’t really need to go far to get a taste of Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu as top chefs from Malaysia come to Manila to prepare only the best of asia at Circles buffet.         [...]

  When In Manila, who says club food has to be boring?           In the progressive hub of Bonifcacio Global City rests SEVENTH HIGH, a boutique nightspot that sets the bar for luxury in Manila’s nightlife industry.         It has three areas, The Club, The Lounge, and The Club Room.  This night I went to the Lounge, where I got a a preview of the new menu that [...]

  When In Manila, the world has a finer things to offer with Impressions : affordable fine dining at Maxims – the only 6-star hotel in Manila located at the most happening place right now : Resorts World.         On the 3rd floor of Maxims tower, the appealing design & warm colors make you want to take a peek and see what’s so inviting about the place.         Is [...]

  When In Manila, if you died and went to bread heaven this is how it would look like :         In this rice-eating country, bread takes on a backseat in our diet. And when Filipinos eat bread, the common notion is that it usually is made from the hands (& sweat?) from your local bakery.   On the otherhand, the recent years have shown a general uptrend in the consumption of [...]

  Are you ready for that morning kick When In Manila? Jack Nicholson had this in his Bucketlist.  Let’s take a closer look and see why it could be part of yours.       So it’s a cup of coffee.  But not any ordinary coffee – its one of the rarest, tastiest & most expensive coffee in the world.  What makes it so special is because it came from the poop of  the civet [...]

  When In Manila you’ll always find a ‘candid’ staple to carry around.  I’m a wedding photographer by profession.  Which means, most of the week I’m lugging around 7 lbs or more of cameras & equipment, for at least 8 hours. That pretty much makes my right arm a little bigger compared to my left one. How ladylike.   And now with DSLRs made more affordable, quite a lot are sporting those bulky camera bags [...]