beyond visible impression

i’ve been stuck at home these past days because of the incessant rain… no birds, no landscape either…  so i “traveled” within my hard disk drive to perhaps felt like i went out and revisited some places here in samar  here are the photos from the first stop of my virtual travel,  capul.

the historical lighthouse

the church’s belfry and wall built by the Jesuits in the 18th century and renovated by the Franciscans in the late 19th century

facing mt. bulosan of sorsogon

more photos coming from the second stop of my virtual travel

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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