Photographer's Block

It is imagery blindness. Writers dread a similar phenomenon. An inspiration drought deadlier that the worst weather irregularity.

In a world of vast possibilities and a million possible frames I stand blind. Unable to snap as colors beg for attention. The world passes me by in isolation and disconnect.

I am still here. My vision is on an indefinite leave.

The Could Have Been Entries

I was to submit these photos in the contest. I just read the revised rules and sadly these pictures are not going to make it. Perhaps they could be in my first solo exhibit. Somebody wake me up from my dream! Let's have a look at them, shall we? Do hit me with a whip if I over indulge, I may like it too much though. LOL

One of the girls in the one of contigents in the festival. You can tell there was a lot of dancing going on. This wan not even taken on the peak of the festival like the rest of this batch.

I took a number of portraits. I just found out that the contest does not want these.

I even snapped this girl sucking on a tube of frozen delight.

Do you think this boy is pissed that I was taking his picture? He seemed happy and gay to me that afternoon.

Now this girl has fierce eyes. I almost said ouch when I took this shot.

More to come later. I just have to sort hundreds of frames from last weeks shoots.

Pit Señor!

I have been silent in the last few days because of the Sinulog Festival. A very colorful festival which anyone should catch in January when you visit the Philippines.

I am joining a photo contest so I am not posting my best pictures yet. I promise to post my entries after the festival. Wish me luck.



For any information about Sinulog you may click here.

Cebu at Night

Taken 3o minutes ago I instantly worked on these images as soon as have I saved them in my back up drive. I did say "images". These are 4 photographs stitched together via Photoshop CS3's auto-align layers tool. It may seem to be a regular shot but you could click on the image so you could see it in full size. I could have taken another photo to make it look longer but the moon was not very cooperative tonight. I'm glad the clouds covered it or else I would have ended up with a panoramic image of Cebu City with a big hole of overexposure in the night sky.

I had to climb to the 7th floor of the building via the fire excape. Not a very nice feeling when all you have between you and immediate death are two 15-inch diameter pipes. I guess this photograph is worht the fright.

Withering Addiction

Spotted during a refuelling stop I used my Sigma 300 mm macro lens. A very reasonably priced lens for what it could do. I realized it focuses faster than the 55mm lens that came with my D40.

Anyway, I thought it's just appropriate create an entry dedicated my my 6th nicotine cold turkey. The longest I have avoided cigarettes is 6 months. The new year is looking brighter for my lungs. Now if I could only stick to quitting.