beyond visible impression

pinipisakan falls,las navas, northern samar

- a telephoto landscape.   the beauty of using telephoto lens resulting to a clean shot that focuses only on the light and colour of the sky, contrasted against the simple shapes of the landscape. am now starting to like telephoto lens for landscapes and can’t imagine traveling without taking it with me!

some of the images i created in our second photo and research assignment for the centenary book of diocese of calbayog…

a common scenery along the road going to guiuan, eastern samar

a foggy secondary growth forests within Samar Island Natural Park but continuously disturbed by “slash and burn” farming practice

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am greatly honored to be part of the core group tasked to prepare a book for the centenary celebration of Diocese of Calbayog. the team is composed of writers, photographers and researchers. our first research and photo assignment was in northern samar, particularly the towns of catubig, palapag, laoang, catarman and capul. these places were considered to have the oldest churches in the north, erected during the first mission of the jesuits in samar island.

here are few of the images i created during our 3-day travel.

palapag church - built during the 1600’s by jesuits missionaries

a portion of the walls of catubig church

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just few of the images that i created during the visit of The Traveling Light Collective team to Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park.   

feel the thrill while following the monkey trail from Protected Area Visitors’ Center going to Panhulugan Cave. 

 
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