Cellphone Charm
Mom decided to brave EDSA and drive herself to pick up Dad from the airport this morning. I decided to go with her, I knew it wasn’t going to be an easy drive. She only drives from home to work (and back), and that’s not even daily – only when Dad’s away and the car’s free.
From the passenger seat and with the belt safely on, I could sense that Ma was somehow nervous and of course we were going at a very safe speed 🙂
So with Dad back from his business trip from The Netherlands, there’s something for everyone in his bags. He got me a violet Ruth-Robin bag with Amsterdam written all over it, and I picked out this cellphone charm from the handful that he brought back:
Of course I’d take a photo of it and display it on my blog – this is my blog after all and I can talk about the mundane if I want to 🙂 But as soon as I looked at the photo I took, I wasn’t happy. And just as I’ve done so many times since January, I took shot after shot until I captured it the way I really liked to show it off.
I tried it this way:
But that didn’t make me happy so I tried another angle:
I didn’t like the edge of the table there though. I did like how the charm itself looks so defined. Still, I wasn’t satisfied so I tried another way:
Now that, in my eyes, was promising. It was clear. But the mini havs totally upstaged the Amsterdam building. That cannot be.
So try again I did:
That one’s close enough, me likey. 🙂 I am almost done then?
Even with the floor showing through, this is my favorite from the bunch. I love h0w the colors came out. I used a trick that Walter (an OM from work) showed me last week, it was using the internal flash (is it called internal?). The colors turned out softer and more natural than when you just use the flash like normal diba?
May 18, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Wow, ang ganda naman ng charm na yan. How thoughtful naman ng dad mo.
Nice bokeh by the way on some of the pics where you attempted to focus only on the charm. By the way, anong focal length po ng lens mo?
May 18, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
Yep, magaling si dad sa ganyan eh. hehe. 🙂
I love bokeh, wahaha. I use the kit lens lang po, wala pang pambili ng ibang lens. 😉
May 18, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Now I want an SLR! Roar! 🙂
Love the phtoos and the charms! So cute! Too bad walang sabitan ng charms phone ko. Kahit nga para lang sa wrist wala eh. Hahaha!
October 19, 2023 @ 3:20 am
What a courageous move from Mom! Navigating EDSA can be quite the adventure. I could sense her determination even from the passenger seat. Safety first, of course! It’s heartwarming to hear that Dad’s back from his trip, bringing a piece of The Netherlands with him.