Category: Snapshots

  • Photo+Text: Wanderlust

    The above photo was taken in Batanes using my trusty Canon Powershot G12.  Painting effect courtesy of my Sony Cyber-shot Digital Camera RX 100 II.  Border added using the Android app Pixlr-o-matic. I chose the above quote since it’s something I can very well relate to.  Since being bitten by the travel bug when I…

  • Summer’s Here (2015 Edition)

    I’m officially welcoming summer 2015 with snapshots of my workplace-cum-home in Cebu, the Queen City of the South. The above is a photo of Plantation Bay’s beachfront taken just last Monday. I love how the water looked light blue by the beachfront but darkened to deeper shades of blue when farther out.  And the clouds…

  • “Autumn” in the Philippines

    Summer’s here and while I associate this with the sun, the sand, and the sea, I was amazed when I chanced on this during one of my walks. Who knew some of our trees change colors and shed their leaves as they embrace summer? The above is a mahogany tree, Swietenia mahogani (L.) Jacq., and I…

  • Today’s Sunset, March 18, 2015

    The above is by far the most perfectly rounded sun I’ve seen from my side of the world.  I actually did not notice the plane until I zoomed in for a shot and by then, I was a little late (who knew a plane could fly so fast?!) and missed that moment when the airplane was…

  • Photo+Text: Metamorphosis

    I can only imagine how scary it might have been to be enveloped in total darkness as the cocoon wraps itself around the caterpillar’s entire body. The caterpillar would just lay there – helpless and wishing for a life outside – as seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, and hours into days.  The helpless…