A blessed Christmas to you!

All the best for the New Year!

Sunflower in my mind

I'm learning to love collages. I think they can express in one photo what may take several photos to show. This is just a simple collage created in Picasa.
Sunflowers are such bright and happy flowers so I thought I would share these flowers with you today. The flowers were given to me by my daughter during my birthday. She knows that my favorite color is yellow gold.

Moon Before and During the Lunar Eclipse

I took photos of the moon midnight of June 15, before the lunar eclipse started. Then I set my alarm to 3 am of June 16 and took more photos during the actual lunar eclipse.

So here are sample photos of this event.  Hope you enjoy them!

OMG! I'm the featured Photographer of the Week in Manila Bulletin!

OMG! I'm the featured Photographer of the week for Manila Bulletin's Picture Perfect section, today, May 31, 2011.
Sorry, the online version is not yet in place, so I'm just sharing a link to a photo of the pages of the newspaper's Picture Perfect section.
Here is the link to my Multiply site.

http://saanva.multiply.com/

OMG! This photo was featured at the RedBubble Homepage today!

I was so pleasantly surprised when I got a message from the Homepage of RedBubble congratulating me for the feature in the homepage. Wow! That's really super!

I learned that less than 3 in a thousand get featured in the homepage. So I was practically ecstatic when I discovered this. Imagine that, I have only been with this site for about 2 weeks only and I already got featured! How lucky can I get?

Below is the link to the RedBubble homepage. It has a slideshow of the featured works. I just don't know how long our images will be in the homepage though. So please click on the link right away before the slideshow is changed. Thank you!
http://www.redbubble.com/
Anyway, below is also another link to the page where all the images of featured artist (for today) are found.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/home/art/6942093-1-backyard-macro-and-closeups-28-march-2011

Super moon

I just learned how to take a moon photo last weekend.

I was with a group of photographers from our camera club and somebody taught me the correct settings to get a good picture of the moon.
I am so happy I was able to catch a shot before the moon disappeared.

Here's the shot.

Hope you like it!

Guess What 5?

This is the last photo for this challenge. I hope you enjoyed guessing the last 4 photos.

Ok. Enjoy!

Guess What4?

This is photo number 4 for your challenge. Can you guess what this is?

I'm sure you have seen this before. Try guessing what it is. Enjoy!

Guess What3?

This is the third photo for this series. After two more images, I will start with some other topic.

So here is your 3rd "Guess What" photo.

Guess What2?

This is my second guess what photo. Are you having fun yet?

Can you guess what this photo is? Please write your answer in the comments. Enjoy!

Guess What?

I like taking close-ups of common things in the house or around the house. For the next few days, I will be posting some of these photos and I hope you will join me and try to guess what these objects are.

Are you game?  Here is the photo for today. Can you guess what this is? 

 

Please write you answer in the comments. Thank you!

Flowers for Valentine's Day

It's almost Valentine's Day, so I'm giving you flowers for Valentines.

I wrote a flower hub in my HubPages so please check it out there. I am giving you permission to download the photos. Just please acknowledge and link back to the source.

I hope you enjoy the flowers!

Flowers-Up-Close-for-Valentines-Day-and-Other-Days

An Out of Bound Froggie

 

I am starting my New Year with something new (for me anyway). I just learned how to make an out of bound photo effect. The process is rather long and a little bit complicated. However, once you get the hang of it, it becomes easy. I just searched in the web for the easiest tutorial to do this effect and I found it in this site:   

http://best-photoshop-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/09/3d-photo-effect.html

How do you like my out of bound froggie?