Happy Birthday Kal!
Exactly a year ago today, I gave birth to our little boy, Kalvin. He was a month early and took everyone by surprise; we had to stuff what we can get a hold of into our not so ready hospital bag! He had to stay first in …
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Katy Bee and the Sunflowers in UP
As a young family, Mimi, Katy and I have our own traditions. One of these is having Katy's pictorial with the sunflowers come summertime in UP (University of the Philippines). This is our third year, and so far the easie…
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Happy Birthday Katypoo!
How time flies. Today is the second birthday of our little miss jetsetter. To date, she's been to 3 continents, 9 countries, and has taken 32 plane rides! She is our bundle of joy and our major source of inspiration.…
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Florence, Italy Street Photography with the X100
Our travel itinerary was a bit flexible. We thought of scheduling a day trip to Florence (it's an hour and a half by express train from Rome) and we were glad we did. Florence has history, art, gelato and tons of vintage…
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Rome, Italy Street Photography with the X100
We arrived in Rome just in time for the EuroPride 2011 parade, the biggest Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in all of Europe. We didn't know there was a parade until we heard the loud house music outside our hotel. It was li…
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Nice and Paris Street Photography with the X100
I must admit that after the first few times of using the X100, I had buyer's remorse. The controls are much different from the Canon 5D mk II. There are quirks like how the ISO also changes when I switch modes from M to …
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Katy, Europe and the Fuji X100
I've already come to a point in my photography life that news of new photo gadgets barely excite me anymore. That is of course, until Fuji announced the launch of their latest beauty, the Fuji Finepix X100. The retro sty…
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Summer Fun
Summer means sunflower season in UP Diliman. Summer means Katy Poo turns six months old. We put the two together and we have our summer pictorial with our little squirt. Our little hope for the flowers: Summer also means…
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Today is Katy's first month birthday and to celebrate let me share with you Katy's first (of hopefully many hehe) video. Kaitlyn Sophia from Karl de Leon on Vimeo. Special thanks to Katy's Uncle Gerson for editing this v…
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Happy Birthday Katy!
Last October 26 at exactly 3:23pm, our little bundle of cuteness, Kaitlyn Sophia A. de Leon (Katy for short) was born. Interestingly, #HappyBirthdayKaty was a Twitter trending topic during that time because of Katy Perry…
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