NOON @ NGAYON

'twas World Toy Camera Day then, October 25, 2003, i was with a bunch of people walking along Avenida.


















Lubitel 2; Kodak 400TCN (past-date)
Toning - Photoshop
Avenida, Manila (2003)

almost 2 years after, i was back in Avenida with 2 of the people i was with before.


















Canon Powershot A520
Toning - Photoshop
Avenida, Manila (2005)

QUIAPO/AVENIDA WALKABOUT

thursday (sept 29) was one of the most tiring day ever last week. have spent the whole day walking around quiapo, avenida and recto for a walkabout. come to think of it, this walkabout was the 2nd we did for this year. man, its been a pretty slow year for oddcams this year.

i met up with rain and lester around 10 am. as always, jay came in two hours late. arnell came in last with a secured visa from the wifey. we went around the church area, then to avenida, walked around recto (searching for zenits), had a break at chowking, went to the other side of quiapo, walked back to recto to catch the train, lingered at fully booked in gateway mall and headed back home.

anyway, here are couple of digital snaps taken along avenida. i do feel i have better shots with the fed 2 and holga. unfortunately, i wasnt able to finish the rolls and i think its gonna take me another ten housand more years to finish them.

Photos taken with Canon Powershot A520
Black & White - photoshop
Avenida, Manila

PRIMARY COLORS

yesterday was mommy's birthday and we had breakfast at something fishy in eastwood city. the breakfast buffet isn't that fancy except for this weird looking hotdog mixture they were serving. we were sitted at the end of the room, which is quite annoying 'cause the waiters hardly ever pass the area. the only thing i liked about it is the big window beside our table. made me take photos pretty easily.

Photo taken with Canon Powershot A520
Something Fishy, Eastwood City

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

I just realized that for the past two sundays, we've been having dinner at super bowl of china. the first sunday, mommy was in bicol and we're so tamad to make something in the kitchen. so, we just opted to eat out. and just this sunday, we were back there ordering roasted duck and congee. (geezzz, what a combination!)

sorry, i dont have fancy photos with this post, only snaps after our super bowl dinner. ^____^

All photos taken with Canon Powershot A520
Super Bowl Of China, Blue Wave, Marikina City

IT'S A NOSE!

IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE

at long last, i had a few minutes to play with the canon a520 in my mommmy's garden (more like a jungle to me). i've been dying to test out the new toy since we bought it more than a week ago.

i took mostly photos of exotic plants. please, don't ask me what they're called because i don't know them and i don't care. hehehehe.

here are some of the photos that made the cut. all were taken with Canon Powershot A520. i couldn't help it had to put a b&w photo with this set. ^_^

new toy!

lately, i have been playing around with a newly acquired toy, teh Canon Powershot A520.
i haven't fully explored the new toy. most of the photos taken with it are snaps of the dogs and the peeps at home.

prolly in the coming days, i'll be able to take decent photos with it. ;p



Jun and Nina
Canon Powershot A520
B&W - Photoshop
Max's Restuarant, Blue Wave, Marikina

children beware...

... he knows when you're nice or bad...

marikina market
sony cybershot u40
b&w - photoshop

i say, turn it on!!!

august 16, 2005 - 14:30
riverbanks park
nikki gil music video shoot
in-between takes


Jay: Marunong ka mag-load ng agfa isolete?

Me: No! But i know how to load the lubitel.

Jay: Really? (hands over the lubitel)

Me: (winding film) Uhmm, Jay, something got stuck. 'doesn't wanna advance.

Jay: (got the lubitel, opened the film back) i know na what got stuck. yung tape nung film.

Me: Oh! (getting a fresh roll of tcn from the camera bag)

Jay: (handing over exposed roll) Sige na, turn on the film na!

Me: WHAT?!?!

Jay: (transferring spools) I said, turn. on. the. film. na! (evil grin)

Me: (staring blankly)

Jay: Ang sabi ko, buksan mo na yung film...




*photos taken with Palm Zire 71; B&W - Photoshop

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starbucks coffee
palm zire 71
b&w - photoshop

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Yellow Cab Pizza
Palm Zire 71
B&W - photoshop

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untitled 3

Yellow Cab Pizza
Palm Zire 71
B&W - photoshop

let me go...

apyang4

Canon 350D
B&W - Photoshop
Jay's Studio

there may be something that wasn't there before...

could it be?

just a thought...

...beautiful day...

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

its the most wonderful time of the year...

oh yes... its French Spring In Manila '05!

yah, Fete de la Musique s back at El Pueblo! C'est si bon!

cyah all there!

going..going...gone Digital! *faints*

apyang

yes, you read it right! its digital! used Canon 350D *faints*

Gift of Faith

All this pain surrounding me; hopelessness is all that I see now
Does it have to be this way?
Brought up on hypocrisy
the seeds they sow don't last forever
They just fade away...

Don't be confused by the lies of the fools and deceivers
Hope and believe in the things that we need to survive

We can make it if we'd only take the gift of faith
We can change it if we'd just accept the gift of faith

Take away my dignity
Take away my hope and my freedom
You got a world full of rage
Don't cover me with apathy
Don't buy and sell what I believe in
Don't lock me in a cage

In a world where no one's alone, trust should come easily
Just reach out your hand, and I'll give you mine.

We can make it if we'd only take the gift of faith
We can change it if we'd just accept the gift of faith

Don't be confused by the lies of the fools and deceivers
Hope and believe in the things that we need to survive

We can make if if we'd only take the gift of faith
We can change it if we'd just accept the gift of faith
We can make if if we'd only take the gift of faith
It's yours to choose but only fools refuse the gift of faith.

-- Toto --
-- Tambu --

Lune de Miel

ILS ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute;
Mais une nuit d’été, les voici à Ravenne,
A l’aise entre deux draps, chez deux centaines de punaises;
La sueur aestivale, et une forte odeur de chienne.
Ils restent sur le dos écartant les genoux
De quatre jambes molles tout gonflées de morsures.
On relève le drap pour mieux égratigner.
Moins d’une lieue d’ici est Saint Apollinaire
En Classe, basilique connue des amateurs
De chapitaux d’acanthe que tournoie le vent.
Ils vont prendre le train de huit heures
Prolonger leurs misères de Padoue à Milan
Où se trouvent la Cène, et un restaurant pas cher.
Lui pense aux pourboires, et rédige son bilan.
Ils auront vu la Suisse et traversé la France.
Et Saint Apollinaire, raide et ascétique,
Vieille usine désaffectée de Dieu, tient encore
Dans ses pierres écroulantes la forme précise de Byzance. -- T.S. Elliot --

Rage, rage against the dying of the light...

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

--Dylan Thomas--

how can I?

How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr'd the benefit of rest? When day's oppression is not eased by night, But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd? And each, though enemies to either's reign, Do in consent shake hands to torture me; The one by toil, the other to complain How far I toil, still farther off from thee. I tell the day, to please them thou art bright And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven: So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night, When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even. But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger. --William Shakespeare--

lone bangekro...

Holga 120s; Kodak TCN400 (past-date); along marikina river

ohmmmm.....

holga 120s; kodak tcn400 (past-date); red-soft filter; river park, marikina city

Cinderella has left the building!

Holga 120s; Kodak TCN400 (past-date); Red Soft-filter; River Park, Marikina City

digital gone analog...

Sony CyberShot U40; Holga Soft-filter in red

*excuse the mess, i know its not the loveliest subject.

cheeseeeyyy ... cheeseeeyy

shivers sent me this one over pop-up...

The greatest irony of life. Loving the right person at the wrong time, having the wrong person when the time is right, and finding out you love someone right after that person walks out of your life. And sometimes you think you're already over a person, but when you see them smile at you, you'll suddenly realize that you're just pretending to be over him/her just to ease the pain of knowing that he/she will never be yours again. For some, they think that letting go is one way of expressing how much you love the person. In my opinion, some are afraid to see the one they love being held by someone else. Most relationships tend to fail not because the absence of love. Love is always present.It's just that the one was being loved too much and the other was being loved too little. As we all know that the heart is the center of the body but it beats on the left. Maybe that's the reason why the heart is not always right. Most often, we fall in love with the person we think we love but to only discover that for them, we are just for past times, while the one who truly loves us remains either a friend or a stranger. So here's a piece of advice, let go when you feel hurting too much. Give up when love isn't enough. and move on when things are not like before. For sure, there is someone out there who will love you even more...

it's oh so quiet...

ssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Home Of The Brave

Everything's gonna be alright boys, help is on the way

Hold your head up high now, there's no need to cry now
We're not running anymore

Leave the politics behind boys, they're not working anymore
There's so much more at stake here, it's make or break here
Haven't we been here before - tell me what we're waiting for

You gotta remember, you don't have to be afraid
You still have the freedom to learn, and say what you wanna say
You gotta remember, don't let 'em take away
The land we call the home of the brave

Who sings the song of the people, you don't hear it anymore
I heard it late last summer, to the beat of a different drummer
It never sounded quite like that before

So you're trying to shake this feeling, that trouble's right outside the door
You lie awake each dark night, like a time bomb wound up too tight
A storm in waiting, just offshore - tell me what we're waiting for

---toto; the seventh one

my heart reaches out to those hurt by the tsunami...

are you looking at me?

canon eos300; fuji superia xtra 400; desaturated @ photoshop

a dream is wish your heart makes...

wooooohhhhoooo!

mark your calendars, everyone! HongKong Disneyland will be opening on September 12, 2005!

cyah all there!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!