beyond visible impression

traveled place:  Villareal and Talalora, Samar

in this trip,  i tried to observe the quote by Morley Baer, “Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.”

Almost always, if we go to someplace, we look for exciting or beautiful scenes in order to get ‘great shots’. but how about if the place offers nothing of your expectation?  The challenge is, take everyday objects or ordinary scenes and transform them into something special… and along the way, it will allow us to see ‘ordinary’ things in a new different way.

some of my attempts…

maqueda bay at low tide

domesticated raptors

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places traveled: islands of sto niño, almagro, camandag and tagapul-an

the kiri-kiti island

kamandag island from sto.niño view

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stayed for a couple of minutes before i took this shot… waited for both boats to be at the perfect spots where the light falls from heaven…

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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