Rough Groove

Out for the Holy Week

I’ll be out of circulation for the week as I’ll be doing my Lenten documentation in Paete and surrounding municipalities…

Pedicab at Angeles

A rather unusual foot driven tricycle (traysikad in the Cebuano vernacular) which is also the same as what I have seen in Malolos, Bulacan. Its not the usual bike and sidecar that is quite common in the rest of the country.

In Pampanga and Bataan

0215H and my slumber was interrupted as the now familiar alarm tone of my W850i broke the silence of the night. Well, other than the whir of the electric fan, that is. Just less than three hours sleep and I have to get up, take a shower and leave for Pampanga and Bataan to take photos of the facades of three churches: San Fernando and Angeles in Pampanga as well as a reshoot of Orani, Bataan. These are busy places, cities (those in Pampanga) wherein even before the break of dawn, the streets are already coming to life with jeepneys already abuzz to take passengers to their destinations. Places wherein if I have to wait for that specific time of the morning when the sun is at a beautiful position to cast its warm light at an angle, I won’t be able to provide a full frontal and solitary facade with nary a soul or a machine in front, unless I do post production work via Photoshop. While I can confidently say that I am very much capable doing this, there are limitations with doing this kind of work.

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La Union, 6 - Tricycles

One thing that I’ve noticed in the streets of the four towns that I’ve visited were the color coded tricycles.

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La Union, 5 - Balaoan

..continued from La Union, 4 - Luna

Just along the highway in the seeming busy town of Balaoan, is another imposing and beautiful church that is quite unlike the rest of the churches that I’ve visited in this trip or even in the rest of La Union that I’ve passed by, saw in books or visited:

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