Several new and previous contributors are featured in today’s column.
Jun Lao, a Filipino working in Ho Chi Minh City for Mindshare Vietnam writes that he started in underwater photography last year and has been “hooked ever since.” He shares: “The reason I got hooked is every dive offers something different and unique every time and provides the best escape from the corporate world (no cellphones, no deadlines). Plus, the Philippines truly offers the best diving in the world." Jun reveals that he comes home every three months to engage in his passion for underwater photography. He dives in Anilao, Balicasag Bohol, Puerto Galera, and Verde Island. He has also gone underwater in Phuket, Vietnam, and Palau (which he describes as the “the Mount Everest of diving”). All in all, Jun declares that he has had 200 dives. And still next on his dive bucket list are Tubattaha, Malapascua, Pescador Moal Boal, Coron Busuanga, and Apo reef. More of Jun Lao’s images are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/junlao [1]. He also has videos uploaded on http://www.youtube.com/user/junlao122675 [2].
From Olongapo City, entrepreneur and college professor Romell V. Isidro shares that it was at the start of the year when he acquired his first DSLR camera. He says that it was both a post-Christmas present and an advanced birthday gift to himself. Since then, he has been addicted to photography and plans to enroll in a workshop soon. Romell prefers human interest subjects and enjoys street photography. “I love to take pictures of different people from their extreme happy moments to their extreme sad moments. I find it very challenging,” he writes. Romell is a member of the Subic Bay Photography Society (SBPS).
Wilson S. Etrata, station manager of Love Radio Davao and YES FM Cagayan de Oro sent in photographs from Mindanao. Wilson reveals that he is self-taught in the craft and engages in it to beat stress.
Josefino “Joey” Langas of Bataan writes that he still has a lot to learn in photography. But this has not stopped him from sharing his photos today. Joey says that regularly seeing the contributions to Picture Perfect inspired him to send in his own images.
Reader Teni Sta. Ines sent in “Tay” a photograph of a father biking his daughter to school. “It reminds me of a good protective, provider father,” he shares. “My father died when I was only eight years old and I never experienced the thing that the father did to his child in this photograph.”
From Olongapo City, Hessel Anne N. Domingo reveals that she only has a point-and-shoot camera and has never attended a photography class. However, she likes taking pictures and sent in photos of her nephew and nieces. She also shared that she is currently saving up for a DSLR.
Previous contributors with photos on this page are Rhayan Cruz and street photo hobbyist Neil Angelo Malasig.
Links:
[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/junlao
[2] http://www.youtube.com/user/junlao122675