I'll Be There For You (Giovanni Naval)

There’s a website that I did not know existed until I needed to find the source of an image previously downloaded from the Internet. I had been gathering a lot of images for a Powerpoint presentation but forgot to take note of the sites where they came from. Of course, it’s only proper that I acknowledge the sources of my borrowed material. After a short search on Google, I found www.tineye.com, a “reverse image search engine.” To find the source of an image, just upload a copy of that image and TinEye will look for an exact match. The site even boasts that “it can also identify pictures that have been cropped, resized, or otherwise modified.” It did find almost all (around 95%) of my queries.

And now to our readers. We start with several Father’s Day tribute photos received in the past week.
Giovanni A. Naval of the PLDT Lens Camera Club sent us "I'll Be There For You" taken with a point-and-shoot.

Neil G. Ratuita of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS) emailed a photo (“Playtime”) taken by his wife, Michelle Ann Ratuita. He describes the photo as “an early morning shot coupled with available window light of me and my then one-month-old baby Ramielle Rouiza.” About their child, who is now ten months old, he shares: “Our child has been truly a blessing for our family and really changed our lives.”

Nelson Sagun’s photo subject is Mang Mar, who reminds him of his Dad. He writes: “He is also an electrician just like my father who doesn't mind climbing high places kung kailangan gawin o kasama sa trabaho. I took this last month when I had a job referral for him.” Notice the rainbow in the background of the photo, “A Father’s Image.”

Ronald Agustin sent in a black-and-white photo of his “cousin Wilson and his son (my inaanak) Eton” that he recently took in Malolos, Bulacan.

Andrew Selga writes that he does not remember greeting his Dad on Father’s Day since it was not yet a popular occasion when his father was still alive. Still, he believes that his father “knows how much I love him in everything I did for him, for our family, especially in fulfilling a dream to have a lawyer in the family.” Andrew hopes that fathers “may also see and feel in the children's laughter their honest response to a love shown and expressed unto them, even by the simple act of sharing one's free time”.

Part-time photographer Holiday Romano contributed photos taken as part of his job. Being the photographer also of his friends, he rues that he never gets to be in the picture.

Joanna Marie Muldong sent in a photo (“Alalay”) of a father and his child walking on the beach in Boracay.

Other photos featured today were received from Vermont Coronel, Katherine Nery, Normel Brin Uy, and Mikko Martelino.

On December 22, 2009, Vermont Coronel set up his pinhole cameras for another series of solargraphs to be taken (exposed) over a six-month period. (A solargraph captures the sun’s movement over a length of time.) Last June 21, on the Summer Solstice, he gathered his homemade cameras and found that only one exposure was not damaged by moisture and water seepage. He shares that with the column today. Vermont, an experimenter in lensless photography, has been featured a few times in this column. His pinhole cameras employ photo paper instead of film.

Normel Brin Uy, system implementer of an IT company shares photos he took during a recent vacation to Palawan with his wife, Joan and their kid, Niyon. Normel says that he liked taking pictures even in school. Still, he considers himself a newbie in photography.

Katherine Nery shares her photo of the sunset taken from her first visit to Camaya Coast in Bataan.

Mikko Martelino’s underwater shots were taken from various dive sites in the country.