I woke up at 5:40AM and looked outside to see lots of clouds running across the morning sky so I gave up for the nth time my chase to shoot Mayon today. Usually by experience, if Mayon shows up, it's up until 9AM and clouds will hide it after. Legend have it that the the jealous Ulap will hide Magayon from everybody, hence, it's like that since I knew about Mayon. Lucky is your day if this showing up extends in another 30 minutes after 9AM.

I went out still at around 7:45AM to buy some bread and donuts. And I was amazed! Mayon is in full view. No clouds rolling, only hugging it from the side.


I packed my camera and commuted to Forest Lake. It's a new graveyard on the mountain top that has the spectacular view of Mayon. It's 8:15AM. The jeep's been taking too long to wait for more passengers. The trip is bound for Buenavista, Legazpi's farthest barangay. I'm becoming impatient and planned to shift to Cagsawa Ruins, but I wanted to have that mountain top shot...


It took another 25 minutes before the jeep started to trek the mountain and I was there after 5 minutes. And it's playtime.


Thanks for my friend Mark for rekindling my interest in photography. I was already drifting away when suddenly he was like "Uh-oh"...