The Bogo Times Blog

Let's be honest. Nobody really reads blogs these days. People scroll. They tap a photo, maybe drop a heart, and they are gone in two seconds. I get it. I do the same thing half the time. I see my own numbers too. Some posts sit there for a week with, like, six views. And three of those are probably me checking if the formatting looks okay. And look, I am not exactly consistent either. If you scroll through my post history, you will find months, maybe even years , where I wrote nothing at all. Too lazy, or I just lost the appetite for it. It happens. So why do I keep coming back to this? Good question. I ask myself the same thing. Part of it is the few of you who actually read to the bottom. I do not know who you all are, but you are out there, and honestly that is enough for me. A few real readers beat a thousand scrollers any day. Part of it is just that I like it. Writing stuff down is fun for me. Weird hobby, I know. Part of it is that it clears my head. I sit down stress...

Wedding photographers, videographers, planners, florists, parish appointed wedding coordinators, and members of the Family and Life Apostolate gathered at the Parish of the Holy Family of Nazareth in La Paz, Bogo City for an accreditation seminar for church wedding coordinators. The session was held under the district-based program of the Archdiocese of Cebu for Far North Cebu, District VI. Fr. Glenn Guanzon of the Archdiocesan Commission on Worship delivered the first and second conferences, Edson Marañon gave the pastoral reminders, and Fr. Japheth Geonzon , parish priest of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Lambusan, San Remigio , delivered the third. All three are named in the commission's published guidelines for church weddings. The seminar gathered nearly everyone who has a hand in a church wedding. Familiar faces from the Northern Cebu photography scene filled much of the room. Among those present were Christopher Damayo of iClick Photography and his team, Dee Quinop...

AI has become a big part of photography and video today. Many creatives now use it to clean up photos, fix lighting, remove small flaws, and speed up their editing. Used well, it is a helpful tool. It saves time and can make good work even better. But there is a line we should not cross. Not long ago, a photographer was called out for how he used AI in his edits. The problem was not that he used AI. The problem was the result. The editing changed the subject's face so much that she no longer looked like herself. To many who saw it, it looked like a photo of a completely different person. For the woman in the photo, that is not a small thing. A portrait is meant to show who you are, not turn you into someone else. What made it worse, at least from my point of view, was how the photographer responded. Instead of listening and owning the mistake, he seemed to brush it off. To me, it didn't feel like he took responsibility. And I think that's where trust starts to get lost. In...