San Fernando, Pampanga

Pampanga in a Plate full! The Ultimate Pampanga Food Tour! (photo by Oskie Ravanera)
The highlight of our culinary tour... the 5 hour lunch at Claude Tayag's Bale Dutung in Angeles City. His restaurant is located at Villa Gloria Subdivision. This is a gated community but his place stands out from all the other houses in that area.... It is very rustic & "rice mill" inspired. Claude, in case you haven't heard of him is considered one of the " MUST SEE and TRY when you are in Pampanga "... SEE his artworks and TRY his cuisine.... but a word of advise... IF you plan to try his cuisine.... be prepared for a long leasurely lunch (5hrs for the 5 way lechon!!!) and come with an empty stomach. Claude prepares all his dishes ... he never delegates this task to anyone.

for more details on our heritage & culinary tour, visit my mom's blog
for details about Ultimate Philippines Tour schedules, visit: http://ultimatephilippines.com/
Here is the video teaser our team; Cinematic Concepts produced for OAP TV:


video shot and produced by: Rommel Diaz and Iggy Bilbao
www.cinematiconcepts.com

Ultimate Philippines Tour: Beckoning Batanes

Ultimate Philippines Tour: Beckoning Batanes from Iggy Bilbao on Vimeo.

A heritage and culinary journey through the northernmost territory of our archipelago. Hosted by no other than Our Awesome Planet's Anton Diaz! www.ourawesomeplanet.com

Our Ultimate Batanes experience as presented by the Cinematic Concepts Team! Shot and directed by Rommel Diaz and produced by Iggy Bilbao. www.cinematiconcepts.com

Here is the Batanes teaser video version II.

Daang Reyna, Alabang

Saturday afternoon, the cinematic concepts team on location and in between venues during Kristel and Emir's wedding pictorials. It was my turn to help out with the couple's portrait shots, coming from a whole day of working on their onsite wedding video (to view our latest works: www.cinematiconcepts.com)
It is an advantage of our team that all of us are photographers and are very knowledgeable in digital post production as well. Which is why we are confident in "swaping" roles throughout the whole wedding day.. In the morning, I was editing the onsite wedding video to be shown during the reception. Then later at the church, I was shooting the video of the bride as she was getting ready to enter the church. And that special moment as she walked down the aisle towards her groom at the other end. The photo taken was at Daang Reyna, Alabang - on our way to the reception venue. Again, my role here was to prep the bride and the groom for their conceptual couple's portrait. And later that evening, during the reception - I was finishing up the onsite wedding video.
To view Kristel and Emir's wedding photos visit: www.cinematiconcepts.blogspot.com

Nasugbu, Batangas

Sunday afternoon, Tagaytay City. Getting all the shots in without losing the light was challenging for the Cinematic Concepts team.
It is good to know the location where you are shooting at before hand. Dedicating time for planning and surveying the place where to shoot a prenup is always a good idea. If I were to list down 10 best practices, this would be at the top of my list.
The final prenuptial pics will be used for Emir & Kristel's wedding video http://www.cinematiconcepts.blogspot.com/2009/03/emir-kristel.html
Special thanks to Pen Mulingbayan http://www.penmulingbayan.blogspot.com for the "hardcore" location in Batangas.
I would like to be able to go back and take more shots in these hidden places in the border of Tagaytay and Batangas.

Brielli, Glorietta 4 - Foodcourt

Choose your sauce! choose your pasta!!!
I recommend the spaghetti-kung pao combination and the penne-seafood pesto!
prices start at PHP 110 only!!!