In search for the Perfect Street Photograph

Perhaps there could never be a Perfect Street Photograph. So perfect that even the harshest critique would praise it. When all the king’s men, and all the forces of the universe had converged for that one perfect moment. So good and so balanced that it is the image of a world at peace. If there

The Seduction of Red

Red does not demand any attention. It is what it is. Science would tell us that our eyes simply finds it first. Love would say it is the color of that wonderful feeling. Nature would say it is the color that animates us. I shoot Red. Red attracts. Red seduces.

Let the Wall do the Talking

 I was doing my usual Saturday morning photowalks in Lipa, Batangas when this wall attracted me. When it got volumes to speak, it is just but proper to let the wall do the talking. In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Wall.”

Play With Light

Play with light It creates unknowns that passes through time immediately Only for you to see.

The Onion Model of a Layered Image

Onions make me cry, that is why they are inspiring. While preparing for breakfast, the thought of a scene crossed my mind and I felt it needs to be drawn, before the scent slips out of my mind. “Layering” by convention is an image with a dominant foreground and informational background. That definition alone is somewhat

Solitude, the Rule of Thirds and the Diagonal Method

Maybe it is no accident that the theme of Solitude is juxtaposed with the Rule of Thirds. Solitude is a state of being alone, of isolation. Rule of  Thirds is isolating your subject to a more pleasing location within the frame. But I like to introduce the Diagonal Method, wherein “Artists” intuitively place points of interest along

To Shoot Street Photography is Bliss

Sometimes I wish I get paid for shooting what I want. Well, that wish most of the time gets granted. But then it becomes a job. Your want becomes their need and you become restricted. You become restricted because you are obliged to produce at a certain time for a certain image that conform to requirements for

Balanacan Immersion

Mornings start earlier than usual here in Balanacan. As we sip our coffee at 6:00 am, the fisherman would had already unloaded his catch to the wholesale buyer and the women folk, sorting out the tuyo, tamban or tapulok on the bamboo drying rack. Everyday earnings, though meager is enough to make everybody smile and

Learning SP through our Graphic Fix: Komiks

They say that I started drawing when I was three. It was not TV cartoons that influenced me to do so, it was komiks. Easy to digest and very, very pleasurable to see. During my childhood there were lots of them. As far as I can remember, it was that big, leather bound comic-type bible that

The Wrath of Water

In the Philippines, we had seen and felt the face of Water in all its angles. She surrounds us, She feeds, She gives, She creates. She can also destroy. She can quickly change everything. It is a lesson that should had been learned ages ago, yet, there seems to be no learning. is the search for “lasting