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I’ve learned that to maximize my time whenever I go on nature trips or urban photowalks, I have to know beforehand the post-processing treatments I’ll be giving to the photos I take; for the Black Saturday walk around Manila, I had at least four in mind: black-and-whites, false color shots, realistic travel shots, and photos [...]

Good Friday’s late Visita Iglesia wasn’t enough, so I thought I’d tour Manila even without companions, and that’s exactly what I did on Black Saturday: I started the walk at Quiapo (but I decided against whipping out my cheap camera, at least not there), proceeded to Sta. Cruz and Binondo, and wrapped up the shootfest [...]

The second set of my Good Friday photos is sort of a compilation of outtakes from the final, more formal set. I’ve given them false color treatment, playing with contrasts on the red and blue channels to give them that unnatural (and as Jen says, “creepy”) feel. That “eerily religious” touch makes this set more [...]

Instead of doing our Visita Iglesia on a Maundy Thursday, we did it last Friday around Quezon City and the City of Manila’s churches. Not being that into the traditional church visits, I decided to turn the trip into an opportunity to shoot photos of the streets and churches of QC and Manila. It was [...]

Sad. On a day I’ve set for taking hundreds of photos around Metro Manila, my plans got screwed up and I was only able to take one photo, and that is of the moon outside our house. It was a very unproductive day.

It was three in the afternoon, I had nothing to do; Jules was hogging the PlayStation 3 and there was nothing good on TV. I just napped for two hours and I wasn’t about to let the day be a complete waste, so I decided to charge up my camera’s battery and clear my memory [...]