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I didn’t know until the last minute that I’d be watching the Usher concert (and I have Jen to thank for that), and I wasn’t even supposed to leave home (I actually skipped work to rest). However, Jen told me around lunchtime that we had tickets to the concert so I just downed liters of [...]

Started a new mural project today.
(Because our roads are intertwined. Because wherever we end up, we end up walking on the same plane. Because we get bruised and we cry, we burn and we fly.)

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 [...]