Twilight Zone

We've talked about this trip since last year.  I was going to take pictures of the house designed by my architecture classmate whose works since university days I've always admired so I was only excited to see the consumated projects. 

Construction started last year and this month it was finally finished.  My friend's a bit, no -- more of too obsessive compulsive about details and he keeps showing me computer rendered drawings because according to him, the reality doesn't perfectly match the ideal. The "as built" fell short due to human errors.  I told him that it would be more interesting to see the actual homes, that even if reality is imperfect, it would still be better than what high-tech machines can produce on the screen.  Of course, it's also a challenge for the architect to find the contractor who can bring his designs to life exactly as intended but that should be a subject for another article. 

Off we went to the site, my husband in tow because he operates the professional camera while I just use my simple digital camera.  We shot away and when we finished, something happened straight from the Twilight Zone episode with blue men putting back everything in place every minute of our lives.  The blue men forgot to put back my camera!  No matter how much we looked around, we couldn't find it.  I thought at least if the pictures taken by my husband using the camera with the big lens were good then at least the day wouldn't be lost.  However, it turned out the lens were much too narrow, limiting the shots. 

We went back to the house so I could take photos with the big camera and when I realized it was useless with that type of lens, we borrowed the house owner's toy-for-the-big-boy camera.  The lens were wide and it was enjoyable to take pictures.  We then transferred the photos onto my friend's laptop and the photos were copied to my USB.   When I got home, the photos in the USB were only a handful and couldn't be opened -- another case of the Twilight Zone blue men botching up their job?   Two mistakes today?  No, it can't be.  Theme music from the Twilight Zone pipes in. . . . . .

Anyway, here a few decent shots from the big camera with the narrow lens.  I'll try to get a copy of the other photos and will post them another time if the Twilight men allow me.

By the way, this house located at the south part of Metro Manila, is on the market and for sale.