Lomography

Create a toy snake with your plastic canisters! Don't throw away you plastic canisters, you can surely make something out of them.

If you are in the Philippines, February is probably the best month to schedule your wedding. Two months before the hot and humid summer and half a year away from the typhoon season, it has the right weather to get hitched, walk down the aisle and exchange vows with your loved one. But for an all-season wedding and reception venue there is always Fernwood Gardens.

Searching for a place for a prenuptial pictorial? Or maybe you want some time for boating and fishing with the family? Barely two hours travel time from Metro Manila, Lakeshore is a perfect weekend getaway place.

With seventeen stations, riding the Philippine National Railway (PNR) train from Tutuban in Manila to Alabang can be one heck of a ride. Shaky and dusty, the tiring one-hour or more ride can be enjoyed with one of your multi-lens camera, the Supersampler!

There is a joke that the earth will shake on Valentine's Day, and we living near the Sta.Mesa motel zone will probably experience bigger quake intensity.

Philippine summers are full of festivals. Almost all major cities and provinces celebrate certain feasts of their local patron saints, complete with buntings, marching bands, street dancers, kids in flower costumes, and beauty pageants. But the provincial government of Ilocos Norte ditched these traditions during the feast of La Virgen Milagrosa and came up with something new: giant artworks at the desert that were later burned.

Since we are closing in on Lent, here are my photos and stories from the Feast of the Black Nazarene. I promised that I would cover it again after attending last year so read after the jump to find out more about this celebrated religious event in the Philippines.

Most amusement park rides were created so two people can sit next to each other, therefore, making it a perfect place for lovers to enjoy moments together. But, what if we also turn it into a giant location for a prenuptial shoot?

Chinese people have high respect in dragons. They believe that they descended from dragons and they perform the dragon dance during Lunar New Year as a highlight of the celebration. Last Chinese New Year, I went down the local Chinatown to hunt the sometimes elusive dragon.

Last year, I tried creating postcards, doodled, and spoke in seminars about Lomography. This year, I will try to do the things that I should be doing most of the time... organizing.

Binondo, Manila's Chinatown, is one of our favorite places to photograph. It is an easy place to go to if we want to have an instant lomowalk because it can provide different streets with various ambiance. And of course, it has plenty of food and restaurants to choose from if ever we get hungry along the way. But one word always comes to mind every time I hear the place "Binondo". Wedding.

I borrowed halfwakehaiku's Horizon Kompakt for a Lomo wedding shoot and was able to to use it for a couple of weeks. It was short, but nonetheless a memorable relationship.

Around two hours and a half travel time from busy Manila is the Wawa Dam at Rodriguez, Rizal. A verdant place fitting for nature lovers and people who want a place to relax and reflect.

Fortune, wealth, and good luck are some of the things that our Chinese brothers and sisters want for the new year. And as preparation, they buy fruits, charms, and delicacies days before the Chinese New Year.

Sometime on March 2011, Cityslicker Jane was in Metro Manila for a work-related visit. We decided to meet for a night of chatting over some beer. It was an ordinary night with friends that turned into an impromptu trip to a place more than 50miles away from Metro Manila.

Want a slide film for your medium format camera, where nature is greener and the skies are bluer? Load some Lomography Slide 200 120 and see your photo gradient from green to blue.

Use film canisters to create a splitzer for your DianaF+.

Most of us, if not all, have accumulated a boxful or two of those empty film canisters after months of being Lomographers. I keep those canisters hoping that someday I can make something out of them. Then, after a failed light painting project, I realized I can make my own light sabers instead of buying another set of disposable glow sticks.

When Lomographic Embassy Manila announced that they're bringing La Sardina to their stores here in the Philippines, I emailed them and asked if I could "beta test" it. Team Manila, the official Lomography distributor in the Philippines, replied and was kind enough to allow me to use one. On August 20, I got the Fischers Fritze at their store and went shooting immediately the next day.

Cant find nice textured walls for doubles? Or probably too lazy to look for them? There are 100 textures that are available right infront of your computer monitor, you just need a little time to download them all.