While we always try to choose the path less taken, there are still many many times that we are left with no choice but to confront the usual and the popular.

The 5 fingers coves in Bataan is a popular place right now for couples shooting their pre-wedding. Why wouldn’t it be, the place is beautiful, relatively near, and unique. It boasts of rock formations that you only see in the landscapes of Iceland. We went there to shoot Patricia and Mark’s pre-wedding exactly for those reasons. I thought that we can still do something different even though there had been a lot of shoots shared from there already. But it was not as easy as we thought. We encountered a few delays and getting to the edges of the coves using small boats was also a challenge.

While still at sea, I was intrigued when I saw what seemed to be docked ship about 2 miles out. The boatmen clearly said that it’s not possible to dock there when I asked about it. I had to see for myself because if we are able to shoot on it, that was that best way I can make-up for lost time.

Call it skills, luck or ability, to cut the long story short, we were able board the dilapidating ship and shoot Patricia and Mark there. Having this amazing backdrop, we had to rely less on transferring from one place to another and just focus on creating beautiful shots on one of the most thrilling set of props we ver had.

Sometimes we just get lucky, but most of the time, these amazing things happen because the mindset and approach idifferent. That’s why it doesn’t matter where the shoot is, what’s important is how we do it and of course on how amazing our clients are. This wasn’t easy but Patricia and Mark worked with is all the way and they have photos no one else have because of it. Enjoy the photos including those from their wonderful wedding.