I have been posting pictures of my colleagues lately - it gives me a chance to update one of my FB albums and experiment with my camera's zoom lens. Take this image of Mon, for example... a simple, straight forward shot of him while he was explaining a few concepts to the participants (and not a bad shot if I say so myself, he he he).

The training was all about the Team Lead School, and Mon was driving in some ideas for our participants, as I aligned the camera to take the shot... the really amazing part here was I was using a purely automatic setting. Naturally,I had to take some test shots and make adjustments before I finally got to this picture.

So why mention this at all? Simple, it means I'm not dependent on any automatic features that my camera offers - okay, maybe with exception to the auto focus part... but that's it

From Mon, I shifted to Ariel - I was lucky since a convenient opportunity arose.

Since Ariel took over Mon's place as my co-facilitator for the Team Lead School, I was nota bout to let this opportunity to further practice my skills pass - so when Ariel was up front talking, I decided to take a few shots of him too. In this case, my shutter speed was not too high, thus you see the blurring of Ariel's hands as he gestures while giving his explanation.

Normally, I would probably just ignore the picture and outright reject it, but then again, this is an action shot - not a posing session, and the blurred hands prove this.

Then there's Gina, who became my partner for the Packaged Application Design School (a.k.a. PADS). I like this picture because it shows Gina in a different action - as you can see how her facial expression tells volumes of how she's reacting to a participant. But worry not, this is not her usual haughty self... nope, despite the expression, Gina is just (figuratively) playing with our participants... and to be fair, our participants were the rather boisterous type... hence not surprising that Gina uses that expression.

Unfortunately (or is that fortunately?) Gina could not finish the course for its duration, so someone will have to run this with me... and Malou Jopillo (our overall coordinator) decides to bring in Jinkee...and naturally, once again I have a model for the photos.

So similarly, I took some pictures to preserve the memory of Jinkee in action. Hence I've got Jinkee doing her explanation, as she presents her knowledge to the class. Naturally, this option will not be complete without my trying to take a picture of her... as we both sahred co-facilitator roles on a Saturday training.

I will strive to further add to this blog the pictures of my other colleagues, should the opportunity to take them arise; that is.