My World#83 Kadayawan 2010: Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan

This year is the 25th year celebration of my city's Kadayawan Festival. One of the most popular festival in the country, it is a well-anticipated and well-attended event. For a local like me, it is a source of pride and joy to see the heritage and culture of my city and its indigenous tribes.

Indak-indak sa Kadalanan (Dancing In the Streets) is one event of the Kadayawan that attracted thousands of onlookers (locals and foreigners) all through the years. In this event, students or groups of dancer-participants showcase the costumes, dances, legends and myths of the indigenous tribes of Davao. The competition is quite stiff and big prizes are always at stake.

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Skywatch#42 Rest In Peace

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My World#82

Nowadays, I spent my days mostly at the funeral home to attend to the wake of my father. Lack of sleep and loneliness are my constant companions. I am really grateful for the people who came and went to visit us. Their presence somehow filled in the gap that we are experiencing in our lives right now.



Furry friends are more than welcome too..



My mother wanted the traditional nine day wake but I wanted it shorter considering that the longer wake would entail more sleeplessness nights and more stress for us. We haven't recovered yet from the several nights of lack of sleep when my father was hospitalized prior to his death. In the end, we agreed to cut the traditional nine-day wake to eight days.


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My World#81 Indigenous Houses of Mindanao

Tribung K'Mindanawan is a place where you can see replicas of houses of the indigenous tribe of Mindanao. This is also a place where you can watch cultural dances, exhibits and shows meant to showcase the culture and heritage of the people of Mindanao.







It is located just inside the Davao Waterfront Corporate City complex along Maa Diversion Road, Davao City.

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Skywatch#41 Learning To Make It Blue

Thanks to the workshop I attended this past weekend, I've learned some features of my Canon G10 camera that I initially thought never existed. Blame it on my lazy mentality each time I have to read its manual, I only knew a few things about my camera prior to the workshop.

Anyway, as the photography workshop's activities were mostly done outdoors, I had a lot of opportunities to practise making the colors more vibrant.

I have always thought that Canon cameras have lighter color palette than Sony cameras as based on past experience. But with the lessons I've learned from the workshop, I can now manipulate the colors to my liking.

This photographer-participant became an instant model when we had one of our activities in Loleng's Mountain Resort. While others were busy gunning their cameras on the instant model, I was busy shooting the skies and manipulating their colors.

One more sky shot...

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My World#80 Taking The Photography Workshop

After a lot of delays and postponement, I finally attended a photography workshop which is sponsored by Fotospeakmedia. We had a lot of activity exercises and I can tell you that I sweated buckets doing them.

I like it that the workshop was mostly done outdoors. On the first day, we did the lecture-workshop under the shade of bamboo trees in Tribu K'Mindanawan amidst replicas of houses of the indigenous tribes of Mindanao.

For our first activity, we were told to take pictures of the native dancers who performed for us. My head was still swimming with aperture, exposure and such so it took me awhile to start taking pictures of the dancers. In the meantime, my classmates were all clicking away. Ah..the pressure!

On the 2nd day of the workshop, we transferred to Loleng’s, a mountain resort that is located about an hour drive from downtown. This time, we were taught about handling artificial lights like the flash and strobe. Afterwhich, we were told to explore the area to shoot patterns, shapes, lines and etc. Later in the afternoon, we did glamour shots on three real models. How awesome is that!

The lecturer throughout the 2-day workshop was Mr. Jomel Gregorio. A very engaging and informative lecturer, it was really a privilege to learn from him.



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Skywatch#40 Sta. Cruz Church Facade and Bell Tower

I wanted to take a picture of the whole facade including the bell tower of the Sta. Cruz Church, Manila. However, the church was undergoing some repairs and renovations at that time. Scaffoldings were visible mostly around the facade area of the church. So, I had to make do of this angle.

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