Category: Exposures

  • Environmental Portraits: Mang Ramon of Rita’s Inn

    Environmental Portraits: Mang Ramon of Rita’s Inn

    I met Mang Ramon, the owner of Rita’s Inn in Batad, Ifugao while he was grinding a few betel nuts to chew in a corner by the dining area. His humble and heavily bearded appearance was deceiving as one would just ignore him as one of the elders until he speaks. His English was fluent…

  • Environmental Portraits: Corregidor Tour Guide

    Environmental Portraits: Corregidor Tour Guide

    His name is Pol Curato, we simply call him Mang Pol. He was our guide from our recent tour in Corregidor Island. He’s been guiding here for about 3 decades now, a heritage himself yet still witty in his lectures and trivia. Here he raises an illustration of some victorious Japanese along with the gun…

  • My 15 Favorite Nokia N8 Images Gallery

    My 15 Favorite Nokia N8 Images Gallery

    As most mature photographers would say, “The Best Camera is the one you have”. This is more true now when Mobile Phone’s imaging capabilities are getting powerful and closer to replacing a common point and shoot cameras. I’ve had my Nokia N8 for more than half a year now and am very much impressed with…

  • Environmental Portraits: Mirrored Innocence

    Environmental Portraits: Mirrored Innocence

    It’s been a while since I traveled on my own. I went to Banaue recently to try to catch the Imbayah Festival and also to arrange things for our upcoming Backpack Photography Banaue Photo Adventure this May 13-15. It’s really hard to work on the logistics of far-off places like Batad and Bangaan so I…

  • Dispatch: A Flagellant at Angeles

    Dispatch: A Flagellant at Angeles

    It was a Bloody Good Friday at Angeles, Pampanga. We were there to witness the Siete Palabras (The Seven Last Words) re-enactment which is a first at Barangay Lourdes, Angeles City. It was chaotically interesting I could say. But alongside there were numerous flagellants. At first I thought I couldn’t handle the gore, the pain…

  • Olympus E-5 Express Field Test: It’s the E-3 With Some Spunk

    Olympus E-5 Express Field Test: It’s the E-3 With Some Spunk

    It took about three years before Olympus finally rolled out their upgrade for their flagship Olympus E-3. Just when everybody thought they would be abandoning their DSLRs to focus on their PEN Micro Four Thirds Line, they produced the Olympus E-5 to somehow show their commitment to the classic Four Thirds Format. But would this…