My Qingmingjie long weekend break in China I have spent in Anilao for a photo shooting trip marks my second visit to this underwater life macro photography pearl in the Philippines.

I had exactly in mind what I was after in this photo adventure, sea life behavior with eggs, eggs and eggs, clean stations action and hopefully some deep pygmy seahorses and decent photos of blue ringed octopus etc. It turned out better than I expected with my highlight being a beautiful leaf scorpion-fish that reminds me of a Roman gladiator and lots of breading action. Below is a small abstract of a few shots I have taken in these waters in the two days shooting.

But the real highlight of this trip was the wonderful time I have spent with celebrated UW photographer, coach and visionary entrepreneur Tim Ho and his crew at the Photo Hotel (or The Fugly Hotel named after the mascot of the hotel, omnipresent pug dog Fugly). Tim is a source of inspiration and a great entertainer; I arrived there expecting to be just a customer and end-up spending a great time with good friends who share the same passion. Thanks guys see you next time !

From left: Tim Ho, Me, Ivan G. Manzanares, Edison So

Caring parent (mantis shrimp)

Knock knock, who is it? A couple of yellow gobis come out of their home, an old piece of plastic pipe, to check out who is the intruder

Leaf scorpionfish

Blue-ringed octopus

Tesselated algherda nudibranch

A caring cardinal fish dad breeding the eggs in his mouth, he will spend about 7 days without eating until babies are born