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Monsoon Rain Floods Manila

The capital city of the Philippines has been drenched by heavy, deadly rainfall for 11 days now, beginning with the arrival of Typhoon Saola last week, leading to mudslides and extensive flooding. About 60 percent of Manila is currently flooded, and authorities are reporting 72 deaths so far. Nearly 850,000 remain stranded or displaced, as residents wait for a break in the downpour, predicted to begin on Thursday.

Residents ride on a makeshift raft during a heavy downpour along a flooded street in Malabon, Metro Manila, on August 1, 2012. Typhoon Saola (Gener) pounded the Philippine territory for days, followed by heavy monsoon rains. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

A man carries puppies back inside their house as other dogs stay on the roof at a flooded area in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines, on August 8, 2012.(AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #

Residents wait for their family members being rescued at the end of a flooded street in the village of Tumana, Marikina town, in suburban Manila, on August 7, 2012, after torrential rains inundated most of the capital. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images) #

A woman watches floodwater flow into a house following a dike breach caused by the storm, on August 3, 2012 in Navotas City, north of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque) #

A Department of National Defense aerial photograph shows buildings and roads submerged by floodwaters in Rodriguez town, Rizal province, east of Manila, on August 8, 2012. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces. (Reuters/Department of National Defense) #

A resident wades along a flooded street in suburban Manila, on August 8, 2012. More than a million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods on August 8 as more monsoon rain fell, with neck-deep waters trapping both slum dwellers and the wealthy on rooftops. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images) #

Residents wade through floodwaters as another looks down from a rooftop in Marikina City, Metro Manila, on August 7, 2012. Rescuers rushed to reach trapped residents across the Philippine capital on Tuesday, as torrential rains triggered severe flooding. Flood waters reached up to two meters (6.5 feet) in the village of Tumana in Marikina City, an eastern suburb of metropolitan Manila, where some residents were stranded in their homes. (Reuters/Cheryl Ravelo) #

Volunteers bag relief goods for flood victims in Bulacan, north of Manila, on August 8, 2012. (Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images) #

A rooster is trapped on its perch as it watches a makeshift raft drifting by at a flooded school at Malabon city, north of Manila, on August 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #

A resident sits in the window of a house swamped with floodwaters in Quezon city, Metro Manila, on August 8, 2012. (Reuters/Erik De Castro) #

Residents look for salvageable materials in debris from destroyed houses and garbage washed by floodwaters that clogged a river in Manila, on August 8, 2012.(Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) #

A father carrying his daughter on his back holds onto a rope as they cross a strong current while a rescuer guides them through the flood waters in the village of Tumana, Marikina town, on August 7, 2012. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images) #

Rescuers dig through the rubble of a landslide to try to rescue people buried after a landslide hit Quezon City in suburban Manila, on August 7, 2012.(Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images) #

Flood victims take shelter at an evacuation center in suburban Manila on August 8, 2012. (Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images) #

Residents stay on their roof as floods rise in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, on August 7, 2012. Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital, triggered a landslide that killed eight people and sent emergency crews scrambling Tuesday to rescue and evacuate tens of thousands of residents. (AP Photo/Mike Alquinto) #

A man holds his shoes as he swims in floodwaters along a road in Marikina, Metro Manila, on August 7, 2012. (Reuters/Erik De Castro) #

A group of Philippine farm workers huddle beneath a bridge to seek shelter from rains and rising floodwaters north of Manila, on August 8, 2012. (Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images) #

A bicycle cart and a bus drive through floodwaters along a main street of city hall in Manila, on August 7, 2012. (Reuters/Romeo Ranoco) #

Residents cross a flooded road in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines, on August 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #

Two men hang onto a basketball hoop in floodwaters after a river overflowed in Manila, on August 7, 2012, caused by torrential rains across the capital.(Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) #

People walk through a flooded M Street, inside Manila South Cemetery, in Makati City, Philippines, on August 7, 2012. (© Clarissa Isabelle Delgado) #

Residents look at vehicles washed up by floodwaters in Manila on August 8, 2012. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) #

Filipino rescuers carry a landslide victim after pulling him out of the debris where four homes collapsed in a landslide incident in Quezon City, north of Manila, on Tuesday August 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Alquinto) #

A resident uses a rope to cross a flooded area in Quezon City, north of Manila, on Tuesday August 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #

A resident talks to rescuers as she is evacuated from her flooded home in Quezon City, on August 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #

A girl carries her sister as they share a temporary shelter with other evacuees inside a classroom turned into evacuation center in Marikina City, Metro Manila, on August 8, 2012. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces. (Reuters/Cheryl Ravelo) #

Evacuees stay inside a Catholic church converted into a temporary evacuation center in Quezon City, on August 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #

Residents wade through a flooded street under heavy rains in suburban Manila on August 8, 2012. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images) #

Residents are evacuated by rescuers in the village of Tumana, Marikina town, on August 7, 2012. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images) #

Residents float down a flooded street in Manila on August 8, 2012, after torrential rains inundated most of the capital the past few days. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) #

A soaking wet child sits on a post on a flooded street in suburban Manila, on August 8, 2012. More than one million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods on August 8 amid relentless monsoon rains, not predicted to let up until Thursday at the earliest. (Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images) #

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This is from a forwarded email so I do not know the source of the photos/article- but it’s amazing and wanted to share it here!

A Beautiful World…

The Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hubei, China 

Santorini, Greece 

Greece 

Benteng Chittorgarh, India 

Marble Caves, Chile 

Alesund, Norway 

Skaftafeli, Iceland – under side of a glacier 

Palm Island, Dubai, UAE – first ever man-made islands

Fifa Stadium in Qatar 

The Pearl Waterfall, Jiuzhaigou Valley, China 

Mount Roraima, Venezuela 

Boracay Island, Philippines 

The Moses Bridge, Netherlands 

Petra, Jordan 

Mountain gondola rides, China 

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia 

Poseidon Undersea Resort, Fiji – $15,000 a week stay

Ubud Hanging Gardens, Bali, Indonesia 

Monticello Dam, Napa County, California, USA 

Gipslend Lake, Australia – chemical reaction called bioluminescence turns the water fluorescent blue 

Sameba Cathedral, Georgia, Tbilisi 

Songjiang Hotel, China

Sky Walk, Tianmen Mountain, Chunan Province, China 

Bora Bora, French Polynesia

Meteora, Greece

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Thank you to our friend, Sid, for sharing this great idea!!!  What a great way to document!!!  He took a photo of his son, Savion from birth til present in the same spot!  I LOVE IT!!!!

 From Sid

The inspiration of this is from Nick Kelsh’s “How To Photograph A Baby”. Got the book even before I got married. Maybe 1998. Great book. Simple. The author had a section there of a father taking hand photos through the years and ending it when he had a granddaughter whose small hand joined in the final shot. That’s my plan too. 🙂The chair was a wedding gift to us. I should have used a simpler chair, ha ha.

I took close ups per section so you can see how Savion has grown up every year

And here is another documentation of father and son hands for 12 years

Sid also did it for him and his wife, Mimi and then with his kids!  I LOVE IT!!

From Sid

I had a few shots left on my camera and asked a friend to have a photo taken by the #7 post at Shangri-La mall 7th floor parking lot to commemorate our 7th month together. Years later, after Savion had been born, I saw the printed photo and asked, “Hey, it’s not 7. It’s 77. When is the 77th?” So we planned it. We went back about 5 years later and asked my friend to come back to Manila (he was based at Cabanatuan) to take the photo.  We never imagined Nicolas will be joining us in this photo.  End of project 7-77.

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Thanks to my friends Ginggay and Tim for introducing me to Instagram.

I love it!! I love how it can make a regular photo look really nice and worth sharing and keeping! It’s a free App

Here is Tim at Starbucks Lucky Plaza Mall showing me how to use Instagram

His photo of Kevin 🙂 with Black and White effect

And here are some of my photos 🙂

A moving photo in Intramuros – look how nice it came out

Art Informal Gallery for Jia’s Chair exhibit

Shifting Scenes by Jia Estrella March 5, 2012 

Estate Sale

At Dedet’s Dining table

Pepitas Lechon March 11, 2012 

Having Pepita’s Lechon!!!

At Manila Polo Club Sport lounge

Shopwise Altar at their head office

Sunday Lunch having Chicken Sarap

Chicken Sarap March 19, 2012 

 Beautiful bottles at Rustan’s Flower Shop, Rustan’s department store 4th floor, Home department

Golden Spoon Ayala Triangle, my favorite store by the park!

There are many other Photo Apps in the Apple store.  I am trying this one from Pam

Since she sent me this cute photo:-)

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