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"Alét Mayol (Warlito Mayol, his real name), is a passionate and artistic photojournalistic wedding photographer, from Sydney, Australia. He's a modern lensman who recognizes the value of certain aspects of traditional photography to make your BIG day become more colourful and memorable. He's also known for his brilliant disposition; always happy, friendly, creative and artistic of what he's doing best. He described himself as an ordinary photographer, with an extraordinary passion and committed to provide the best photographic services to his clients."

He was born on February 19, 1968 and grew up from the historic Cebu City, Philippines. His early gift of art was discovered by his Year 1 teacher when they were given an assignment to draw any bird they saw in the area. At first his teacher suspected it was done by an adult, and he was asked to draw another similar drawing in front of the teacher without looking at the first work. He did exactly the same work to his teacher's amazement. He can draw exactly what he could see or imagine.

As a child, he helped his parents in the farm. During that time, most people relied on agriculture. Many occasions, his parents told him to stop his studies due to financial struggle. But insisted to keep going. While in high school, he worked on weekends at a factory nearby. There wasn't enough playtime. He finished high school with highest honours, giving him a ticket for a free college education to any of the existing universities in Cebu, Philippines. He did choose nursing and with the helped and encouragement of so many people, (from friends to relatives), he graduated Bachelor's Degree in Nursing in April 1990, from Cebu City Medical Center College of Nursing in consortium with Cebu State College. He received an exemplary award as a Nursing student in recognition of his effort of promoting the school in media publication and also for serving the Supreme Student Council for 3 terms and sponsoring resolutions on projects for the students welfare. It was the time, when the main library received lots of books donated by the Students Council, and also the installation of Phone booths for students, after seeing lots of students queing up at the Registrar's Office, begging to make phone calls. After passing the Nurses Board Examinations in June 1990, he enrolled himself at Cebu Normal University's Graduate School for Master in Nursing while started working as an Emergency Room Nurse at Cebu City Medical Center. In 1993, he flew to Saudi to work at the biggest private hospital in the Eastern province. In 1995, he was back at his hometown and finished off the Master in Nursing. In 1997, he started working at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center. He got promotions in a short period of time and got assigned permanently at the Operating Theatres, a department known to be home of the most senior nurses. He was the youngest, yet the most qualified in terms of educational attainment at that time. But instead of aspiring to get the higher position at work, he helped 3 of his colleagues to pursue their masters degree in Nursing and helped them along the way until they've graduated. But late in 2002, two simultaneous opportunities came to him. An employment to Ohio and Immigration approval in Australia.

He eventually migrated to Australia in February 2003, together with his beautiful wife and kids. He started working part-time in a hospital and a nursing home. In 2005, he decide to go back to his usual specialty as an Operating Theatre Registered Nurse. But his passion of art was rekindled when his wife bought their first Digital SLR camera after arriving in Sydney. He knew he can see things and draw them into paper, but with the use of the camera and its lens, he can integrate his creativity into it to get a super quality print.

Although, he started learning photography using a Minolta X-700 sometime in 1987, that interest faded away when he left Philippines to work for a hospital company in Saudi Arabia in 1993. He brought along with him a gift; an old 1978 Vivitar Pocket Camera-110EF for weekend/day-off shooting. It was followed by many versions of Sony point-and-shoot cameras.

Embracing Australia as a new home in February 2003, he still continued to always have a camera in his pocket, but eventually gave up using a point-and-shoot cameras after they died one after the other. That's why he did pick up a DSLR camera one more time and his initial main reason; to get a good quality photographs of his young growing kids. At some point, there was some sort of "rekindled passion." Obviously, DSLR photography seems to get in love with him again and he became obsessed with it the second time around. Now, he's got more than one reason to keep that relationship burning.

He specializes in weddings, but also lensing portraits, glamour, lifestyle, events, structures, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes and low-light/long exposure photography.

PHOTOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS

"In August 2011, Alet Mayol Photography became a registered Australian business name. Then, it changed its name to Simplicity & Perfection Photography in September 2012 specializing in weddings and portraiture (registered at the Australian Securities & Investments Commission), and made the former a subsidiary."

He did join the "RedBubble Galleries" of professional photographers across Australia in May 2011, and has been a "Featured Photography Artist in High Quality Images" for two occasions on the 15th and 17th of May 2011, for submitting photos without manipulations. He also love sharing his work to people with the same passion; viewing and capturing precious moments of people's lives through the camera lens. He believed, sharing is a wonderful thing. Red Bubble is selling some of his photographic work online.

Featured Photography Artist in July 2011(among the TOP 20 out of 477 successful finalists from all over Australia) during Canon's 1440 Photography Competition 2011.

Official Photographer of 2012 Mens Handball-Australia Team during 2012 Oceania Region Handball World Championship Qualifier Match against New Zealand Team held in New South Wales on the 23rd June 2012.

Event Photographer for NNG Balintawak International during Sydney's Martial Arts and Cultural Festival 2012.

Event Photographer for Media Release Photo Shoot of Germany-based Fil-Aus Handballer, Bevan Calvert(Team Captain, Men's Handball-Australia).

Focal Artist of Beaufunkcious

Member, Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers(SWPP).