Kawitan's Photo Adventure

Visita Iglesia 2012

2012-04-05T21:37:00.000-07:00

For 2012 lenten season, we revisited the same churches that we went to last 2010, and below are the images of the various special places where the Holy Eucharist is kept during the duration of the Lenten season.

Sienna church transfers the Holy Eucharist to the same area every year. Flower arrangement is more austere this year but the solemnity of the place is still maintained.

Sienna church

From Sienna, we proceeded to Sto Domingo church then to the UST chapel.

Sto Domingo church

UST Chapel

From UST, we drove to the Manila Cathedral, but it is closed for renovation, so we walked to the nearby San Agustin church.

Malate Church

San Isidro church

Saint Francis in Mandaluyong

EDSA SHRINE

St Paul

Feast of the Black Nazarene

2011-01-09T05:09:00.000-08:00

Viva Senor Nazareno!

January 9 is the feast of the Black Nazarene, and this is when the biggest procession in the Philippines happen, the procession where the image of the Black Nazarene is paraded in various streets of Manila. This year the procession started at the Quirino grandstand in Luneta.

This is the first time that I am documenting by photographs one of the religious events of the Philippines. The first photo above was a shot of the silkscreen that an enterprising man is using to print the image of the Nazarene on T-shirts right on the sidewalk.

Next photos would tell many stories of the procession.

The image of the Black Nazarene is expected to be at Quiapo church early in the evening yet, but even as early as noon time, Quezon boulevard was already a sea of devotees and merchants.

The next photos were taken atop a waiting shed near the Metropolitan theater along P Burgos street. I was at the wrong side because the face of the Nazarene was blocked by escorts and the cross.

The photogs on the other side are at a better vantage point.

I admire the courage of these two women who also tried their best to climb the Nazarene's carriage just to be able to wipe their towels on the image.

Miss Earth Philippines 2010

2011-01-07T16:47:00.000-08:00

The final selection and coronation for Miss Earth Philippines was held at the Manila Ocean Park. The winner represented the country to the Miss Earth Beauty pageant held for the first time outside the country in Vietnam.

The event was hosted by Karla Henry, and Ginger Conejero who were former Miss Earth contestant beauties themselves, with Miss Henry actually bagging the crown last 2008.

A beauty from Infanta, Quezon, Psyche Resus, won the crown.

A strong contender was a beauty from Pandan, Antique. She's the daughter of proud parents who were seated beside me. She was crowned Miss Philippines Water.

And finally, the top five.

Trip to Batam Island

2010-08-16T20:40:00.001-07:00

A Freelance Job!

I was commissioned by a US company to do a service job on a Final Test system at Unisem in Batam, Indonesia. Batam is an island near Singapore and the way to get there is to take a plane from Manila to Singapore and then take a Ferry from Singapore to Batam.

This is the night view of Jodoh area in Batam from my 12th floor Hotel room.

These are pictures from Airport in Singapore to Harbor Centre.

View fr taxi just off the airport

Towards Harbor centre

(Singapore Flyer)Famous Ferris wheel near the Harbor
at the background is the Marina Bay Sands

Ferry to Batam

Visita Iglesia

2010-04-01T21:50:00.000-07:00

It has been a tradition for us to visit various churches during Holy Thursdays. The visit starts around 6:00PM and we hop from one church to another and offer a short prayer, with the goal of going to as many church as we can up to 12MN.

During this day of the Lenten season, the Holy Eucharist is taken out and displayed in a special place and this year, I let my daughter take the pictures of these various places in every church we visited.

This the UST chapel.

OLAP church

Lourdes

Sienna

San Pedro Bassilica

Malate Church

San Agustin Church

San Isidro Church

Paint Araneta Yellow

2010-02-25T16:55:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, my wife and I went to Araneta to join thousands of "Yellow" fans celebrate the 24th year of the People Power revolution. I was of course lugging my camera and I was informed by security people that professional still cameras are not allowed inside the Araneta Coliseum so only my wife entered and I stayed outside and joined the thousands who were not fortunate to go inside the coliseum.

I took this picture because it reminded me exactly of what I did with my son during the actual people power revolution in 1986, we were then with the people guarding Channel 4.

Anticipating that not everybody can not be accommodated, a stage was set up outside where another program was conducted and hosted by among others Jim Paredes.

A familar face in every gathering of the yellow army

This is another familiar volunteer for Noynoy.

And one of the lead organizers of yesterday's event.

Gown Competition (Miss San Manuel 2010)

2010-02-23T17:20:00.000-08:00

An essential part of every beauty pageant is the Evening gown competition where the contestants demonstrate their ability to dress up for a formal occasion and show their alluring way of carrying one's self in the world of glamour.

The swimsuit stage

2010-02-22T20:02:00.000-08:00

This page is for the Swimsuit stage of the search for Miss San Manuel 2010. I was shooting with a 70 - 300mm zoom lens from the audience stands and I didn't have a good angle so I will post only the few better pics that I captured. I will start right away with the winner.

The best in swimsuit was Nina Erica Peralta.

She was also chosen as Miss Friendship (their version of Miss Congeniality) by the participants themselves.

Here are some selected ramp shots

2010 Search for Miss San Manuel

2010-02-22T04:25:00.000-08:00

Last weekend, I went home to our province to attend our annual town's fiesta. Just like any fiesta, part of the festivities is a beauty search for Miss San Manuel 2010. This was held last Saturday night, Feb 20, 2010. It was a beauty pageant composing of a swimsuit competition, gown competition and an interview. There were fourteen candidates representing each barangay of the town, from whom three beauties will be picked as Miss San Manuel, a first runner up and a second runner up. Culmination of the event was of course the coronation of the top 3 beauties.

Citystreet shots

2010-02-16T01:07:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since my last post, I haven't had the chance to shoot the past few days, so I am giving you a few street shots that I took sometime ago. I will be presenting them as Black and White images although they have been taken originally as colored pictures.

Welcome Rotunda is a familiar landmark in Quezon city. It is now a common venue for rallies and demonstrations.

The "calesa" is still an attention drawer, this woman
is probably wondering what those horse driven rigs are doing in this street. This shot was taken along the intersection of Forbes and Espana streets.

Reunion's group picture

2010-01-21T17:07:00.000-08:00

One of the challenges of taking a group picture, specially if you're not the only one taking the picture, is to see to it that the group is properly lit and all faces are seen, in this particular group pic, I failed to do that. I have cropped the group picture into 3 so taht the images are bigger and can be seen better in this blog.

All faces are properly lit
but VME is partially covered
by Josie, who in turn had her eyes closed.

Rowena in this crop is partially
covered by Cely, the rest are ok.

This is a disaster because EJA was fully covered,
if not for other pics, one wouldn't know who that
guy is.

Verdict: Reshoot!

The angle of Cita's camera who is in the middle would hopefully yield a better picture.

Casa Davis

2010-01-17T22:50:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday, January 16, 2010, I drove to Silang, Cavite for a much awaited reunion of past and present employees of Zilog Philippines. The reunion's venue is Casa Davis at Ponderosa Leisure Farms, the residence of Norma and Dave Davis. It was scheduled for lunch time, but because it was my first time to go the place I decided to be early. I was the first to arrive so I had the chance to take a few pictures of Casa Davis.

Casa Davis as seen from across the street.

Casa Davis garden side

Street life

2010-01-14T07:29:00.000-08:00

Manual Film Development
Even in this digital age, images captured by analog means still have their own appeal, specially the Black and White film. I am attracted to B&W images and so I am venturing into this old school photography as an alternative hobby. I recently attended a workshop on B&W film developing and I am posting here 2 frames from one of the films that I developed during the workshop. So, even if the source is film, it is being posted here as a digital image because the negative was digitally scanned.

It was my first developed film so there were so many scratches, probably during the washing or drying stages. Of course, I hope to improve on my next development job.

Christmas Lights

2010-01-02T16:28:00.000-08:00

I have been searching for a good Christmas light display to photograph and post on this blog and on our way to the province during the holiday break, we passed by Moncada, Tarlac. This town offered two photo opportunities, one was the town's interpretation of the Nativity scene which was displayed in front of their town hall, and the other is an ancestral house of the Villanos family which was bedecked with lights and Disneyland characters with Christmas costumes. These two can be seen along the McArthur Highway and will not be missed when you travel north to Baguio or Pangasinan passing by Tarlac.

Taken accross the highway
Moncada Town hall

A closer shot of Moncada's Nativity scene display

The ancestral home of the Villanos family in Moncada

Fil International candidates to the Miss Earth Philippines

2009-12-29T04:23:00.000-08:00

The Miss Earth Philippines 2009 beauty pageant was held to select the delegate of the Philippines to the Miss Earth 2009. Among the candidates were Filipinas born in foreign countries. Meet them here.

Miss Fil Canada

Miss Fil Melbourne

Miss Fil Sydney

Miss Fil USA

Miss Tanzania

2009-12-25T06:20:00.000-08:00

This time, I would want to introduce one of the more outgoing delegates to the Miss Earth 2009 pageant. She is 24 year old Miss Tanzania, Evelyne Almasi. She also won the title of Best National costume.

Meeting Miss Kosovo

2009-12-22T06:08:00.000-08:00

Meeting Miss Kosovo.

I had the chance to meet the delegate of Kosovo to the Miss Earth 2009 Beauty pageant on the afternoon before the night of the actual swimsuit competition. She was outside the tent where all candidates were having their makeup made and so I approached her and asked if I can take her picture. Meet Miss Kosovo, Elza Marku.

Miss Earth 2009 Winner

2009-12-17T19:47:00.000-08:00

The 9^th Miss Earth Beauty Pageant is now over and out of the eighty candidates, Larissa Ramos of Brazil was crowned as the 9th Miss Earth winner. Final pageant was held at the Boracay Ecovillage Resort and Convention Center in the colorful island of Boracay Island. I was not able to attend the coronation night and so I am showing you instead some of my snaps of Miss Brazil during the Pre-pageant swimsuit competition.

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Miss Earth Pre-Swimsuit Competition

2009-11-08T18:45:00.001-08:00

We attended last night one of the Pre-Swimsuit competitions of the 2009 Miss Earth International. It was held in Mexico, Pampanga at The Lakeshore resort.

This was just one group and unfortunately, Miss Philippines was not among them. My favorites to win the Swimsuit competition were Miss Mexico, Miss Kosova and Miss Brazil.

The event was highlighted by performances of a live band (Circle of Faith), and Ronnie Liang of Pinoy Dream Academy.

Top five (5) best in swimsuit in this event will compete in the Final Swimsuit contest to be held in Fontana Resort. Honors went to Miss Switzerland, Miss Portugal, Miss Brazil, Miss Mexico and Miss France.

Setting up a Photo studio

2009-11-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

This initial post was inspired by my idea of putting up a small photo studio. This blog will therefore document the progress of this project from conception to hopefully completion.

The studio will be built from an unused garage as shown. It will be just a small studio that will cater to fellow photo enthusiasts who want to practice and develop further their skills.

I am therefore open to suggestions on what gears, tools, equipment to procure like lighting system, backdrops, etc.

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Strobist

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