Landscape

 I am in love with the green earth.
- Charles Lamb

 "The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images" - Galen Rowell

Landscape are expanded natural scenery which can be seen in one single view. Contrary to portraits, this genre in photography captures a vast area depicting the essence of nature and mostly free from man-made obstruction. As an ecological marine management graduate like me or simply an environmentalist, my love for nature encourages me to campaign for conservation and preservation of the greatest resources empowered to us, our Mother Earth. Through landscape and nature photography, we can somehow attain unsullied pristine part of nature not being influenced by anthropogenic disturbances. Through time, changes are inevitable, but  the desire to preserve it could somehow be seen only from these photos captured.  Floods, typhoons,  earth quakes, tsunamis, global warming, climate change and other major calamities are threats to destruction of nature. I feel that through photography, at least there is something left to share for the next generation. To give them hope and a chance to live in a naturally beautiful environment.

No Green, No Blue

 -Sylvia Earle

Fresh Water Falls in Kawasan, Cebu City

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Camp Sabros, Digos Davao del Sur 

Even weeds and grasses are important to balance nature

Bolinao, Pangasinan

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it.
- Ted Trueblood

Enchanted Kingdon, Sta. Rosa, Laguna

Note to readers: This post are introductory for my landscape photographs. I will be creating a separate LABEL purely for viewing my shots soon. ^_^

Portrait

  Cambodian kid - Phnom Penh

 "At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist" - Galen Rowel

In photography these are close up captures of a person or a small group where your focal point predominates on face expressions. Normally it is more of a composed image of a person in still position where the objective of most photographers is to display the likeness, personality and even the mood of the subject. But for me, I took portraits in candid shots or snapshots which I find really challenging. These are photos that captured my heart not only that they can lead us to something that we cannot see if we look widely. There is something unique about the subject such as the eyes expressing different messages. It shows us various stories at different angles of LIFE. And again, I say these moments are rare occasions.

Innocence of a child - Aranyaprathet, Thailand (border to Poipet, Cambodia)

Photography

1,2,3...say cheese! Click here and there, as simply as it goes. But photography mesmerize me so much and I guess it is becoming the most popular fad of todays generation. Some people engaged full time either as a photographer or the model, some are also very much focused as part of their profession, could be for business or an extra source of income and, for the most, this may only be a hobby to enjoy and destress. But to few, it is an art to preserve life. To document unique aspects of our journey which we may not know, 'twas only a rare opportunity. Most people love to pose, to smile in front of cameras and appreciate the beauty of nature. If you're not one of them, then I must say you miss something extraordinary. Anything goes as long as well-documented. By then, who knows, that captured moment was the best to last.

Photo by: Janice P.Susaya, 2010 

And me? I am one of those who love, or is love too shallow to describe? Okay, crazy about photography. Even at my early age, it has been my passion and dream to have my own SLR. And....tadaaa...got my OLY with me. Because for me photography is part of life. I still believe that it is one of the best ways in preserving good memories, moments that are added together, thoughts, emotions, nature and differences. In short “a picture could paint a thousand words”. There is no such place where  you can go back for years and a lifetime but on still photographs. And to quote: “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film/SLR’s/digital camera is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything ” ~ Aaron Siskind

I hope this first post would encourage you to go through my page and explore the captured moments from my Journey of Life.