Environmental Portraits: Mirrored Innocence

Ifugao Girl
Ifugao Girl Mirrored Innocence (Olympus E-PL2, Lumix 20mm, F1.7, 1/30sec, ISO 1600)

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 have to go there personally. I took the Ohayami Bus, an alternative to Flordia,  for the first time. Aside from it also being a freezer yet equally comfortable, it was a tad slower and I noticed that most of the passengers are Ifugao since the bus line is owned by one.

Come the first light of the day, when everyone was waking up from their light slumber, I noticed this ifugao girl at the front row from where I was sitting. I was caught by her fascination of the passing scenery. I quickly grabbed the Olympus E-PL2 with me readily fitted with the Lumix 20mm pancake, jacked up the ISO to 1600 and shot inside the dimly lit interiors of the moving bus. It took a while before the girl noticed what I was doing and just stared at me and my camera with a passing curiosity for a while and went back to looking out the window.

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