Well, technically some photos here have people in them, but I guess it’s not mainly about the people. They may be in the picture, but they don’t have the leading role, so to speak.
When we joined Lakbay Litratista Laguna, I distinctly remember telling myself that I should remember to take pictures of both people and non-humans (non-living things and other life forms).
I’m more at home with this aspect of travel photography because you don’t need to ask permission when it comes to shooting objects or animals or plants. At the very least you do a tabi-tabi po.
It’s like training your eye to find something worth capturing wherever you may be. Sometimes the whole place looks really sucky, but if you look hard enough, sometimes in the most unlikely places, you might find something pleasing in the midst of yuckiness.
Sometimes, you even find objects on humans that you find fascinating:
Or sometimes it’s one dark corner in a rundown shack that speaks a silent elegance.
It’s a nice exercise: to find beauty in places where you don’t expect to find it. If I could only apply this outside of photography and into my everyday life, I’d be a happier camper. Because mostly I find a lot of ugliness wherever I go.
Also, photography satisfies the voyeur in me. Especially when you use zoom lenses to catch something from afar. Not so much for puerile purposes, but more of to capture scenes without tainting it with self-consciousness, which pours in bucketloads once subjects realize they’re being photographed.
We’re planning our next photo trip. I hope it’s somewhere challenging, a place that will give up it’s secret treasures with some patient prodding. Travel photography is exhausting, but I guess we do it again again because of how rewarding it all feels after you see your photos. I guess it’s like what mothers go through when giving birth. In the end, the pain is all worth it.
amazing!
thanks a bunch!
ouch…naman, bakit sa dede tinusok?
aba ewan! i just take the pictures! 🙂
sir, love it…
so this is where you were! i missed you in the daily top 10
So beautiful, Chico! I can’t find the words to say to the pictures!
thank you! thank you!
I love photography…ask ko lang chico kung panu mo nagagawa yung mga effects? sa lens ba ng camera o ine-edit mo sa flicker?
for most shots it’s most just cropping i do. but for the special shots, i use lightroom 2 by adobe!
coz im saving a lot of money just to buy the Nikon D40 SLR…
hi chico. thanks for sharing your wonderful shots.
very nice!
hi chico i really love the one with yellow petals. i grabbed it i’ll use it as my wall paper
you really captured the beauty of these things.. we get to see these often.. some are interesting too and some we just pass by, but you made us see the beauty in them ^^
thank you for the kind words!
looking for your next photo location…. where else??? BATANES!
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a lot have been said.. a lot of pictures have been published… its the next BIG thing… I guarantee you.. your 1G memory stick won’t be enough… haha such a great place… awesome as eveybody would describe it….
by the way, your pictures are really superb! how i wich i can learn all thoise techniques – GREAT JOB! keep on clicking that camera.. see ya!
that’s one of our dream destinations! one of these days, we will!
i don’t like it!!!I LOVE IT!!!
salamat!
ohmygaaaaahd! i love your photos!!!!!
thank youuuuuuu!
yikes, the pic with the homemade body piercings made me squirm. magpa-nipple ring ka rin kaya chico?
no way! i might faint! hanggang eyebrow lang ako.
yung kabute.. it looks like .. like.. like.. a mushroom in the dark.. kelangan tabihan ng bulaklak ng kantutay.. that really is a plant
baztoooz! 😀
chico! magsibalik ka na dahil ang lulungkot ko na sa umaga 😀
youch! nipple piercings???
chico, i miss your witty and creative photo titles. 😀
oo nga no? i forgot! sayang, sige will try to come up with new ones for my other photos.
The photos are amazing…
thanks!
isa lang ang napansin ko sa lahat… bakit maitim kilikili nung may aspili sa katawan? hehehe.. pero impernes… pang professional na ang mga kuha ni chico! galing… galing!
hahaha, wawa naman yung model ko! di naman niya kasalanan na maitim kiliili niya! 😀
your pics are always nice chico. it inspires me.. =)
you keep getting better and better…gusto ko yung kuha mo sa switch and sa mga kabayo 😉
looking forward to your next travel photos!
thank you!
I loved the pic with the yellow petals! How did you do that?? It looks like its a contrived artwork. But knowing you, this is just something you took a pic of. Ang galing!
that was actually just a wooden table outside a church with petals and stuff falling on it from a tree above it. glad you liked it!