Kids Photography, Cute Little Sistahs

Just sharing this lovely kids photography set by Jason Lee…

naughty 'n nice, little sis taped on the wall

Check out the cute set here.

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Dining Table & Benches At Villa Escudero

villa escudero

This is a photo post, just putting notes below…

To tell you honestly eating on the flowing river is hard physically esp while holding a toddler, wife and a camera! But eating beside the falls, feet submerged in cool water, eating all-you-can food, battling langaws,  protecting my camera – all rolled into one experience – is well worth the drive and the bucks.

The Museum tour is quite a enjoyable walkthrough. Cameras are not allowed inside though. They have a “carlos celdran act-alike” there, I forgot his name. He/she is funny and real good museum guide.

The day rate (non overnight) is around P1200. I can’t remember the exact fee, I’m not the accountant in the family.

Filipina Wins "Democracy Chalenge" Photo Contest

the road to democracy

The  Democracy Photo Challenge 2010 is a contest by U.S. State Dept, aka, Hillary’s Swamp. Mika Matsuzawa, a UP Journalism student won the Asia prize.

Mika Matsuzawa’s photograph won over 3,000 other entries from 131 countries. The winners were chosen based on online public voting by over 500,000 people, after a jury narrowed the field of submissions to 36 finalists, representing each region of the world.

Winners per continent/region:

Africa: Kaylene George, South Africa and Mike Mitchell, Benin

East Asia and Pacific: Mikas Matsuzawa, Philippines and Venkatesh Hamyanaik, Australia

Europe: Mehman Huseynov, Azerbaijan and Dino Peri?, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Near East: Kaveh Baghdadchi, Iran and Mohamed Kaouche, Algeria

South and Central Asia: Mustafa Kia, Afghanistan and Jun Krishna Joshi, Nepal

Western Hemisphere: Ian M. Cunningham, United States and Wladia Drummond, Brazil

BTW, I like this light painted chair from India…

Democracy is...brilliance of authority.

Photo Contest: Picture This- We can End Poverty

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The photo contest will be the second annual of the UNDP-branded Picture This photo contest. The 2009, Africa-centred Picture This: Caring for the Earth competition resulted in an international traveling exhibit (New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Johannesburg, St Louis (Senegal) and Geneva) and extensive media coverage for the contest itself, its winners and participants, and the issue of climate change and environmental degradation in Africa.

Through the photo contest this year, UNDP hopes to bring much needed attention to the quickly approaching deadline for achieving the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) in order to motivate people and governments in developed and developing countries to redouble their efforts in the fight against extreme poverty. At a time when the world’s attention will be focused on these issues, the winning photos will put a human face on the MDGs.

Contestants must enter either as professionals or amateurs, not both.

The 2010 contest will include a People’s Choice Award where the public will vote for their favourite photo online through this website. Click here to vote.

The winning photos will be exhibited during the UN MDG Summit and UN General Assembly in September, 2010 in New York, when world leaders will meet to recommit and redouble their efforts in the fight against extreme poverty.

Click here to read rules and disclaimers.

Furniture Photogrpahy By Rene Araneta

furniture photography by rene araneta

This is a quickie post.

Check out some amazing furniture and awesome furniture photography in this set by Rene Araneta.

We wish we have a big studio. And proper lights. And muslin backdrops. And a crew. And knowhow.

(BTW, here’s a DIY on how to make your own muslin backdrop.)

Ross Capili's Passages at Forum Robinsons

Once upon a time, I attended a Ross Capili one night lecture/shoot. ‘Twas a nice experience and learned a lot from it despite downing 2 san mig lights that night. Held at his old P.Tamo HQ. He’ll have a one man show this May at the Forum Robinsons. Hopefully we can swing by there. He got Paintings, Photographs, Mixed Media, all we like! See info below…

"passages"

Rosscapili
Solo Exhibition

Paintings/Photographs/Mixed Media

FORUM Robinsons
Pioneer St corner EDSA Mandaluyong City

Opening Cocktails on May 13, 3pm for INVITED guests

Regular exhibition on May 14-31, 2010
“A marriage between painting and photography, printmaking and mixed media — this is the kind of art I want to explore,” explains art guru Rosscapili, in description of his 37th one man exhibition. Titled “Passages,” the exhibition showcases some 30 paintings, photographs and mixed media works at FORUM Robinsons beginning May 13, 2010.

The seamless transition of one art form to another over decades of continuing artistic evolution shines through with every “Passages” piece. Energetic brushwork leaps, dances or surges across photographs of the human figure as though images from the artist’s dreams or subconscious were somehow transferred and given tangible form on canvas. Though many of the human figures are in still poses, each work as a whole seems to move like a film noir or music video montage — sometimes flowing like a prima to Prokofiev or frenetically like stop-motion animation to staccato.

Rosscapili sees “Passages” as a summary of a career that has established him as a master of one art form after another. Simultaneously maintaining strongholds in previously conquered territory, this veteran visual artist is now a sought-after signature in not one but four different art forms. Starting out as an award-winning painter in the early 70’s, he fell in love with photography before the decade’s end. After becoming a professional shutterbug and adding photography prizes to his trophy cases, the 80’s saw him add works in traditional etching to his portfolio as he worked with the Philippine Association of Printmakers.

As his paintings moved into the realm of abstraction in the 90’s, it was then that Rosscapili began to pursue digital artmaking. Today, he says, “I no longer put a boundary… It doesn’t matter if I’m doing painting, traditional print, photography or digital printing… I end up combining them all during one thought process, creating my own art which doesn’t really fit into any single definition of a particular art medium.” A look at Rosscapili’s work in the first decade of the new millenium suggests that his art will continue to develop in fresh and exciting ways as he melds his different media. He sees the creative process as an uninterrupted passage or voyage where “I can’t tell if I’ve already arrived at my destination.”

“Passages” is open to the public until May 31, 2010 at FORUM Robinsons on Pioneer Street corner EDSA in Mandaluyong City. Mall hours are from 10am to 9pm daily. For inquiries, call Galerie OneWorkshop at 836-8799, 09176273193 or FORUM Robinsons at 3988058, 09228267945 or email one_workshop@yahoo.com.

Photography Book: Century - One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope

The version of the Century, Mini Edition: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope we have is the ultra mini edition. Sized 5.8 inches by 5.3 inches so we’ll not post sample photos. It’s best to see the historical photos on print and preferably, the biggie coffee table book. We bought our copy for less than P200 coz what we have is non-mint copy. Anyway, it’s still good. First few things I looked for… the Beatles, the World War I and II photos, Muhammad Ali and JFK. I love looking back at 60s 70s culture BTW.

Check out Amazon review below…

Editorial Reviews (Amazon.com Review)

The impact of photography, with its permutations and manipulations, has created incredible images of human hope and suffering throughout the 20th century. Inured as readers may be to the sights of our age, anyone who leafs through the astonishing chronicle that is Bruce Bernard’s Century cannot fail to be impressed and moved by this vast visual document of the past 100 years. Weighing in at around 10 pounds and containing more than 1,000 photographs, this significant document of 100 years of human history displays Bernard’s 30 years of experience as a picture editor with the Sunday Times Magazine.

Divided into six sections–1899-1914, High Hopes and Recklessness; 1914-33, Self-Inflicted Wounds Remain Infected; 1933-45, Rise and Fall of the Unspeakable; 1945-65, Atomic Truce Walks a Tightrope; 1965-85, Vietnam to the Moon to Soviet Collapse; and 1985-99, Chaos and Hope on a Burdened Planet–with accompanying text and quotations, Century presents an average of 10 images for each year, from the banal to the brilliant. In 1921 readers witness Claude Monet overseeing his glorious water-lily gardens. Next to that is an image of starving children in the Russian famine that followed the end of World War I. The young Princess Elizabeth walks her corgi in London’s Hyde Park in 1934, while the facing page shows the moment of King Alexander I’s assassination in Marseilles. American GIs laugh with girls on a German beach in 1946–a couple of pages on from the then recently revealed horrors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three decades later, sees the Sex Pistols inaugurating the era of punk rock, while anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko lies murdered by police in his South African jail cell. By turns harrowing and humorous, Century is a magnificent photographic testament to 100 years of human advancement, futility, acts of heroism, and episodes of unspeakable cruelty. The book ends on a note of hope with a still from a 1999 German production of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, a triumph of goodness over evil. It is nonetheless difficult to erase the preceding image of refugees fleeing Kosovo in the same month and the same year–history’s hour of darkness come round once more. –Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk –This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

A Nail’s Art

Mother of mercy! Life is unfair. Some guys are just born gifted. Real artists. They see and envision things we ordinary mortals can’t see.

Check the work of this guy, Vlad. Using ordinary crooked, bent, rusting nails and some other home stuff, and he has got one pure artistic set of photos of nails suggesting life situations, feelings, failures, etc. These nails freaking breathe.

I got nails and screws and stuff and camera…. Inspired by this, we’re gonna be making our own version of this. I hope its fine by you comrade Vlad.

Tank too, thank you

A old copy of “bookzine” Tank Too given to us last December. I think it’s by Tank Magazine. A collection of their works/photos perhaps. I dont have copies of Tank Mags but I do know that photos published here are great photographic arts.  Includes amazing imagery and full-color photos encompassing architecture, arts, people, fashion, design, graphics, etc. Books like this is a source styles/techniques and visual ideas, an essential guide how capture compelling photos, an inspiration. To the one who gave this to us, and to Tank… thank you.

FACE OF THE WEEK #: 8 LIHIM NG SILVER BUDDHA

Ooops, it’s alreadsy Tuesday! The face of the week post pops out every Monday. But am posting herewith still. This is our 8th Face of the Week post (12 more to go!). Based from the classic cheezy Jestoni Alarcon movie, Ang lihim ng Golden Buddha, we scour the house for some jewel-like items to have that theme.

This photo titled “Lihim ng Silver Buddha.” The secret is, none of the peripheral accessories in the picture is worth as much as the gold bars of Jestoni, aka, Rogelio Roxas.

Too bad, this metal tribal necklace could have been a nice accessory to the shoot of the silver Buddha. It arrived later.

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FACE OF THE WEEK # 5 HEART BROKEN

heart broken

We have here 20 photos of faces & masks, all home decors. Shot in a span of an hour and half on a rainy Saturday morning. We’ll just post one photo every Monday of the coming weeks, to welcome each week with face-themed posts. Post 5 of 20.

Lucky me for stumbling upon this heart-shaped glass from a bucket of pebbles & marbles. I used the heart-glass as the mask lone tear drop. A 2-yr-old boy saw this image and said, “he’s crying,” a proof that the heart-glass did the teary-trick.

See all Face of the Week 2009 collection… (FOTW09)

Painter On White

Here’s the “davinci of doors” doing his sanding skilz.

Some of the furniture of House of Leoque, this painter did the paint job. Salute!

I Shot the Birds

Testing camera DIY-filter shots with the bird display…

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