On Palm Sunday, my daughter Ilona and I joined the Philippine Outdoor Photographers on a Photowalk through the lower end of Binondo and Intramuros. I am obviously not a photographer; I find the art fascinating and enjoy learning more about it for the sake of expanding my knowledge, but it’s a fundamentally different sort of talent that I’m not sure I have.
And that’s okay, because even if my photographer friends would have a hard time grasping it (after all, not everyone is a writer, either), watching them is tremendously valuable. Photographers, it seems to me, have a skill in looking at the world in fine detail, and if you pay attention to them, you see things you never knew were there.
Like these people. We spend most of our time trying not to see them, and if not for my companions’ broad sense of what constitutes “beauty” and their skills in capturing it, it’s very likely no one ever would.
Palm-frond vendors outside Sta. Cruz Church — Seth Capitulo
A different religion for Palm Sunday — Miki Chelou
The runaway — Mike Samonte
Regatta de Basura — Rod Erick Ladores
Aling Juana, vendor — Bernie Vicente
On the corner — Rommel L. Rutor
Flower girl — Whayne Peñero
Alley cat — Kiel Umali Ferreras
Hot work — Josefiel Rivera
Peaceful — NJT Photography (Noel Tonido)
Lola — Edd Poliquet
Street child — Herdy Kristine Marzan
Do-it-yourself water park — Joart D. Juanitez
White heat — Whayne Peñero
Pogi — Mark Barlongay
The soup eaters — Ben Kritz (Hey, that’s me. Not bad for an amateur.)
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