Home Behind, Things Ahead

Three consecutive Sinulog absences and now, I’m here. Trying to make out a wicked weekend of my short getaway because I might not fly home if all systems go for our supposed backpacking trip to KK this Holy Week. And everything else planned for the summer will follow which does not involve Cebu at all.

All of the photographs were taken pre-Wolowitz period, with the use of my faithful Sony DSC-L1. These are from my last three visits to Agujo – Holy Week 08, Sembreak 08, and Holy Week 09. It takes a 3-hour travel from Cebu City to get there and I love to visit the place as much as possible because it has changed drastically over the years – sand erosion due to climate changes. Sigh. Yet it is still beautiful in it’s own right. It’s no paradise (like Koh Tao) but it offers me familiarity and  inner peace.

For the things to come when I get back to the Metro, “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

2010

Plans and aspirations for 2010 in a single photograph.

Canon 35-80mm lens – f/8 1/166s ISO-200

Photo from 121809 on a lone trip to North of Cebu, Philippines. Here is to hoping that the new year will bring me places, literally and figuratively speaking, of course. And to quote Anatole France, “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

Anthony Copping and Yo Yo Ma are my 2010 music.

Whitewashed

Tamron 28-80mm lens – f/7.1 8s ISO-200

I was testing the tripod in the condo hallway a few weeks back and I deliberately left the camera to manual mode with the same settings used in the previous post. Ergo, a very overexposed photo with a curiously demented result.

Remote Test

This account is itching for a new post.

I was talked into buying a new remote for my camera, thankyouscottkelby. Bought this Phottix IR Remote at Henry’s in Quiapo for a fair price of 500 bucks. Here are some test shots taken with the use of the remote. Waited for night to fall to see how it works in an extremely low light condition.

Will post a colored test shot soon. Finally they look sharp as tack! Haha.

Tamron 28-80mm lens – f/7.1 8s ISO-200

Tamron 28-80mm lens – f/7.1 8s ISO-200

Narrative Turned Experimental

A DVD cover I made for my film.

Sacrifant

“Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues”

Canon EOS Rebel Kiss SLR 35mm Kodak film

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A 2005 photograph of a tree in Bear Mountain State Park, NY. The title of this post is a song by Bob Dylan wherein the park is referenced in the lyrics.

all i can do is be me whoever that is

Billy the Kid (Richard Gere): People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else. I don’t know who I am most of the time.

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My favorite line from the 2007 Bob Dylan movie I’m Not There.

San Pedro

Canon PowerShot A70 f/3.5 1/1000 sec.

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A digitally “lomofied” year 2005 photograph of the San Pedro bridge in California.

Lift

i think about you every time metal
pivots about a point of fulcrum
every time numbers change digitally
passing by people i only know by floor

but if we go on the same crossing
because of a push of a button
that’s divided by keys, strips,
and some form of unheard experience,

i wake up in the middle of the night
just to hear your voice.

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poem for the sake of posting