Out on my own

Yesterday I took the jump and decided to go out on my own with a driver from the hotel and see Manila outside the hotel. I was hoping to see some of the Shanties but ended up seeing what the driver had in mind which wasn't bad. I saw three locations yesterday, Manila Bay, Fort Santiago, and one of the oldest churches in Manila, Church of San Agustin. I was only out for three hours and so I didn't have much time to screw around but I took some pics of what I was able to see.

Let lets just say it was an adventure and my driver thought it was fun to flirt with me. I don't think I really liked the mound of questions he had like, "Are you married?" and such. He started out introducing himself as my little body guard and pretty boy. An intro like this made me feel a little weird but I just rolled with the punches. For all of you worried right now I was perfectly safe and had fun taking pics. One of the pics I really enjoyed taking was this pic of the little boy down by the bay who I called my favorite model. I saw him and had the driver stop so I could get some shots of him. It did take the kid long to figure out what I was doing and started to show me that he didn't really like the fact that I was taking his picture. So I rattled off a few shots and they gave him 20 peso for his time. To any kid this is alot of money (about 50 cents in the US). He opened up the crumpled bill and smiled from ear to ear he was now the star of the day.

He and the married couple got me thinking about what else I could do with my skills while I am here. Going to make a few calls and see what I can come up with.

More pics to be found on the flickr site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/supercalla/

I would love to hear your comments.

-t