Camera phone hike

With my main DSLR camera under repair, I maximized my 1 megapixel W660i Sony Ericsson camera phone in scaling Mt. Tagapo, all of 438 meters above sea level of it, in a dagger-shape island called Talim in Laguna de Bai.

Climbing the island mountain entailed just the basics in order to survive my third summit: enough water, food and determination to see the night, so that I would still be around for the next climb with Julz and Rod.

Producing this set, on the other hand, brought me back to the basics of photography. Timing and composition. And it's almost two years na pala this bunch of photos have been lying idle in my dearly missed Multiply page.

April 25, 2010

No need for a light bulb

Lamp posts in a lakeside barangay of Tanay, Rizal. May 27, 2007

Kwento ng Parola sa Pagdaan ni Milenyo

Days after supertyphoon Milenyo slashed through this sleepy lakeside town of Tanay in Rizal, the parola (or the light tower) became the centerpoint for all the folks whose lives depend on the bounty of the Laguna Lake.

They started to repair their fish nets. Rebuild fish pens. Fish vendors had returned as well as children had the day to spend with playing at the shadow of this humble landmark.

Then as I stood before the fading sun at the highest point of the parola, I felt being embraced by the wind as I wonder what other stories could she have been telling me. All I had was a Nokia 6600 mobile phone camera to snap photos of that day when the coast had been declared safe.