2013 – The Islander Girl

January 2, 2014January 2, 2014

2013 in photos

With certain notable exceptions, 2013 was a personal banner year. I’m not sure how 2014 will top it, but hopefully it will *graduation!!!*

February: I got to meet Costas Christ when he visited El Nido Resorts as a judge for the World Travel & Tourism Council’s 2013 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. It was an honor to be able to pick his brain about sustainable tourism.

March: Bloc Party in Manila! HOMG Bloc Party in Manila!!! I’d dreamed of this moment since I got hooked by Weekend in the City. To see and hear them in the flesh… WOW.

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January 5, 2013

PHOTOS: Fire on the beach

After welcoming the new year with fireworks, our guides and their supervisor decided to pull out all the stops and do a firedancing routine on the boardwalk. They were originally supposed to do in on platforms in the water but the Engineering guys decided to ignore their advice and installed the platforms too far away from the shore. Full moon + high tide = submerged platforms *facepalm* So the guides had to move their routine to the boardwalk. They were still great 🙂

Happy New Year! (Taken without a tripod. Oh yeah.)

From front to back: Gading, Eileen, Oliver, and Dodong — From front to back: Gading, Eileen, Oliver, Dodong, and Mark

This is Eileen. She's the supervisor of these crazy people literally playing with fire — This is Eileen. She’s the supervisor of these crazy people literally playing with fire

09 firedancers Macy — I want to learn how to do crazy shit like this.

This was only my second time photographing firedancers. The first one was at my cousin’s wedding. Luckily I had a tripod this time and was able to set up before the show started.