Photos, Quotes, Inspiration

Hi Everyone,

I have created a new blog which houses all my "photoquotes".

As you probably know, I love collecting quotes and taking photos of course. Now I have combined these two loves into what I call as "photoquotes".

If you need a daily dose of inspiration, then this is just the site for you. Please check it out and follow me over there too. Here is the link: http://getinspired-photoquotes.blogspot.com/ 

And here is an example of what you will find there:

See you there!

Aliwan Festival

It's almost that time of the year again! I mean fiesta or festival time!

I'm sharing here a photo taken during the Aliwan Festival 2 years ago. This is the mother of all festivals as it includes the contingent from other regions of the Philippines. This year, it's going to be held on April 11 - 13, 2013.

I have written about this festival in my HubPages. Here is the link: http://jill-of-alltrades.hubpages.com/hub/I-Recommend-the-Aliwan-Festival-in-the-Philippines

The Heart Relic of Saint Camillus

I just experienced one of the most spiritually uplifting days in my life!

I was part of the Documentation Committee during the visit of the heart relic of Saint Cammillus to the church of the Camillian Sisters in our subdivision. I wrote about this visit in my hub here:
http://jill-of-alltrades.hubpages.com/hub/Encounter-with-a-Heart-that-Goes-On-a-Journey

Here is a photo of this heart relic.

Flowers Smile When They See Me

Just sharing my first ever photo book from Blurb.

It's title is: "Flowers Smile When They See Me"

As you know, flowers are one of my favorite subjects for my photography. I've placed some of my favorite flower photos in this book. Hope you enjoy them.

Flowers Smile
When They See Me by Salvacion Placer Angtuaco | Make Your Own Book

A Year at RedBubble

It's been a little over a year now since I joined RedBubble - an art community.

I am enjoying my membership there and have gained some close friends as well as several acquaintances. Many of the photos that I have posted here (like the photo above) are also found in my RedBubble site. However, they are available as hires photos because you can sell art works in the site.

I also enjoy joining the many challenges in RB because I am challenged to go out of my comfort zone in terms of my photography.

I am happy to say that I have won some of the challenges but of course I also lost some. However, I can say that everything is fun! fun! fun!

Not only that, I have also sold some works (cards) in RedBubble. I am just happy that somebody appreciated my work well enough to part with his/her money and buy some of my cards. Right now, my most popular work is this:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/lensbaby/works/7193070-doing-small-things-with-great-love?c=81937-sold

It's a photo of some grasses which I coupled with a quote from Mother Teresa. Somebody loved it so much and bought 40 copies of this. Imagine that! I danced with joy when I learned about it. I don't even know who the buyer is so I thanked him/her publicly in RedBubble.

So this is how far I have gone in my photography now.

You can see a running slide show of my works in RedBubble in the links section at the right side of this blog.

Playing with Gradients Again

I am not yet through playing with gradients and blending. I came up with this happy result while doing so.

This is really so much fun and the results sometimes surprise me. What do you think?

By the way, there is a bigger version of this photo in my RedBubble site. Please click on the following link
if interested. http://www.redbubble.com/people/lensbaby/works/9069261-the-partys-over

Happy Easter Using Gradient Tool

I just recently discovered the beauty of using the "gradient tool" in Photoshop and I had fun playing with some of my photos and creating fun cards.

Here is an example:

I love the softness created by the gradient. I actually created several layers here and then used the gradient tool for the final blending of the layers.

Have a Happy Easter!!!

Using Textures, Layers and Blend Modes

I have never tried using textures in my photos. I just learned how to use them lately and have been doing some experiments. I am enjoying this new found way to create a new look of my photos. I did not realize it's just easy. Either you use some already existing textures or you can even make your own textures.

I discovered that the technique is just easy.  You just have to use the blend modes in the photo editing software, like Photoshop.

I have written a step by step article on using layers and blends in my hub in HubPages. The link is here if you are interested. How-to-Change-the-Mood-of-Your-Photos-Use-Layers-and-Blending-Options

I am just sharing a photo that I created by using this technique. Try it and have fun!

A Wonderful New Year

A wonderful New Year to all of you!
May the New Year bring you the best of everything!

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!