Digital Dreamer

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~John Berger My fascination with things of the past are the silent stories they bring. What is it like to live back then? I have a of vision people wearing baro't saya, or perhaps the obiquitous camisa chino and the soft cotton pants. Here is a picture of the side door of the centuries old Church of St. Michael the Archangel of Argao, Cebu, which depicts a classic example of Baroque architecture prevalent among old church designs. The church itself is made of square blocks of white coral stones. Sometimes we have to look back on our past so that we may understand our present and allow us to plan for...

A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet One of the things that makes photography a worthwhile hobby, is the opportunity to see things beyond the picture. When my wife Reiza took this shot of our son Raphael at the War Memorial in Corregidor with a background of the dates of the defense of Hawaii and the Southwest Pacific, I saw a connection between that war and our son. It tells of the heroic deeds of the soldiers who shed their blood, their dreams and probably their youth as a sacrifice so that the future generation (that means us and Raphael) may enjoy what we have now.