Tag: E-PL2

  • Life Under the Bridge by the Railway

    Life Under the Bridge by the Railway

    It’s not really my thing to take Street Photos of people living in harsh conditions like the homeless, street beggars or other people in deplorable conditions. I always thought taking photos of them just glamorizes the idea of poverty and can easily be misconstrued in pictures. It’s a sensitive issue that delving into it requires…

  • Ilocos Photo Tour Redux with Karl Grobl

    Ilocos Photo Tour Redux with Karl Grobl

    It’s that time of the year once again when international humanitarian photographer, Karl Grobl, brings in a new batch of photo enthusiast to tour around the Philippines for 2 weeks. I’m grateful that I’m part of this tour again as meeting people from different places is very interesting. Karl modified this year’s tour and went…

  • Young Street Boxers of Antique

    Young Street Boxers of Antique

    I was riding at the back of a habal-habal while riding in the dirt road of Pandan province. We caught sight of a pumped-up crowd gathering at a street and decided to stop by and see what was happening. It was a couple of kids doing street boxing complete with boxing gloves. At first it…

  • Caracol 2012: Going Behind the Scenes

    Caracol 2012: Going Behind the Scenes

    Makati’s Caracol is the city’s Mardi Gras which aims to celebrate love and awareness for Mother Nature. Most of the costumes revolve on earth themes like animals, underwater creatures and reptiles. It’s been years since I last saw this celebration which usually was held on the third week of January coinciding with other Sto Nino…

  • Welcoming 2012 at the Magical and Musical Makati

    Welcoming 2012 at the Magical and Musical Makati

    Good bye 2011! It has been a good year but 2012 holds a lot of promise. The recent holiday season, we had a lot of foreign relatives visitng our humble home in the Philippines, it was fitting that I stay in the metro but it was a fun staycation. I decided to welcome the new…

  • 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…