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Michael Sta Maria

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Finally!

January 22, 2014

After years of procrastination I finally managed to set up a photo blog!!! I went through a lot of my photos for weeks whilst deciding on the content and familiarizing myself with my website’s interface. It’s not there yet but I’m happy that it’s now up and running. It’s something that I had hoped to accomplish by end of 2013 and I did it!

I am by no means a pro photographer. I have no background in photography, well actually a bit, back in college but I couldn't seem to remember anything that my photography professor had taught us. I mean, there were more interesting things to do other than photography back when you're young, right? Maybe, I was too pre- occupied to learn a thing or two back then…Oh well.

Anyway, I’m a self taught photography enthusiast who just loves monographs, photo books and of course I also love taking photos. About 6 years ago I again started taking photographs using a borrowed Sony P&S. I purchased my first P&S in May, 2010 as I was going to South East Asian cruise that summer, and I wanted to upgrade from a borrowed P&S camera. The Canon 10MP Powershot S95 was one of the best P&S cameras out at the time, so I gathered up some of my Christmas money and bought it. I loved this little P&S!

I also owned and used the crap out of my DSLR for less than a year, DSLRs are just too bulky for my taste so I decided to ditch it and then switched to mirror-less completely at the end of 2013. Every so often, my Canon 10MP PowerShot still gets some love because it's a great little camera! In fact, I brought it when I went to El Nido last year and used some of its photos in the “EL Nido Color” page.

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Okay, enough about me and this has been a long first post. Feel free to sneak around and browse through my photos. I’ll be using this blog to share some random thoughts and photos as well. Please shoot me an email using the “Who Me” page,  I’d love to hear from you!

-- M

Tags: El Nido, Introduction, Pangulasian, Beach, Photography
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