For some years now, I have been taking for granted how special my hometown really is. Perhaps it’s because I grew up studying at your ordinary public school, rode the slow and dizzying PUJ’s like they’re the only possible means of getting anywhere, and played my own share of tsinelas-basketball at our plaza gym, like most kids my age did. I grew up in this town without gratitude—there’s always that possibility in my mind that someday I’ll be leaving this place to move on to bigger things; to the real world. I’ve yet to figure out why after 15 years of daydreaming I still find myself here every morning, and as always I have to convince myself that I’m staying not because I have no choice, but rather, because I wanted to.

Hehe.  I had to suppress laughing from reading what I have just written down. I didn’t mean this article to be on the dramatic. I, firstly, wanted to be informative and inviting.

I am a wedding photographer / videographer. Yesterday, we covered a Lipa Cathedral wedding of Pham adnd Rhen and the reception was very near our house at Mataasnakahoy, Batangas. Two weeks before, we had our prenup in that same place–where you can have another view of the famous Taal Lake and Volcano (picture above) often depicted from Tagaytay City, Cavite. This one picture was our group’s shot at Shercon Resort, Mataasnakahoy, Batangas.

From now on, I intend to provide a tour guide to our little town, feature summer and all-year-round resorts that we often ignore here but are deeply proud of, give a summary of the town’s founding as I go along, and continue to please you guys with more pictures from our wedding photography group.