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One of my wedding shots.

A repost for today's holiday.

This is especially dedicated to all the good, the bad and the ugly fathers around the globe.

This was my winning entry to the 72nd Pinoy Kodakero PP Challenge titled "Father and Son" three years ago.

In all honesty, I truly believe that this is a very good image for today's Father's Day.

I miss my dad who left us more than 20 years ago. And my mom followed him for 4 years now. I really love both of them and I still can hear their guiding voices. I used their voices in bringing up my kids for me not to be a perfect father but to raise my kids as good citizens.

I had only one father. His name was LOPE. Well, there's another one up there. But the one down here before was one good father. Only once did he scold me. Yes, ONCE. I was about 6 years old then and my dad was knocking on the door. I was the only one at home, and never bothered to open it. I was playing with my humongous toy firetruck that he gave me. He was so furious and panicky that he was able to open the door by kicking it. He saw me there, right there, callous and unmindful, never stopped playing with my new toy. You probably could have guess what happened next. Or not. He didn't shout. He was mad. I knew from his eyes. But he just grabbed and carried me with his arms and then, he hugged me. He said, don't ever do that again to me. I thought something happened to you. I was so scared at first, but later on, I felt the love. I thought I saw some tears in his eyes. And it was really not scolding. That was just what I felt then. From there on, I was a changed boy and turned me into a father I am right now. Up to this day, I am still trying to emulate him.

My tears flow while I was writing this.

This beautiful picture was provided by Karen for the competition, a fellow flickr friend.

Originally posted here: www.flickr.com/photos/kros/2548294713/
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MY CURRENT STATUS:

First, I really miss you. All of you who supported me in so many ways.

This post, I hope, will mark my revival.

I lost my confidence when I was writing my HDR UNLEASHED ( www.flickr.com/photos/kros/4279193317/ ) book.

I can't finish it cuz I feel like my English is too kindergartenish.

I want to publish it but with at least a decent English.

Probably, a help from friends could make me finish this project.

I will try to post new pictures just to announce that one father on flickr is still alive.

I hope you still recognize me.

FOR SOME REASON, I've been popping in and out on FACEBOOK than on FLICKR.

Check me on FACEBOOK ( www.facebook.com/kkros2 ) and you'll find some new KK images. Will post them here.

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I got to unleash my UNLEASHED HDR book. It's something I want to leave before I join my dad and my mom. At least, I know that I will be remembered through my pictures and my book when I'm gone. I still want to become a well known artist before I say goodbye.

And so, as someone said, I have a dream.

Till next.

Hey gang, this is just for thrill.

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I think, nowadays, if you don't have Facebook, you don't exist.
So, I'm also on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/home.php#!/kkros2
Add me as a FB friend too.

It has always been difficult to go back to where I was when I hiberate for a long time.

So bear with my recovery.

I will only feel confident if I could start annoying people who hate HDRs. If that starts again, that means I'm back.

I think this is where I feel the independence if I am aggressive with my HDRs. And if I fall back to my mentality that whether you like it or not, I'll just publish and show it to the world, I know I'm in the groove.

I'm on my way to get back my KK Touch and thus, I can finally finish my HDR book. I want to publish it in a month. Help me by supporting me.

BTW, look, no people. But there were people in the original shot. Okay. It is not magic. It is simply Photoshop CS5 new content aware thing. It's included in the HDR book. Very simple to remove the people and any unwanted objects like signs and wires with the new Photoshop CS5.

And also, if you look closely at this HDR, focus on the picture, can't you see that it is in 3D? Let me know if you managed to view this in 3D.
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I think, nowadays, if you don't have Facebook, you don't exist.
So, I'm also on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/home.php#!/kkros2
Add me as a FB friend too.

I'm also on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/home.php#!/kkros2
Add me as a friend too.