Sunday, May 15, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016
On the Philippine elections
I'll step in very briefly to post my thoughts on the upcoming elections in the Philippines. Then, maybe another about the US elections? Then I'll go back and post more images. :-)
You know the story of the boy who was locked up in his dark room almost all his life, and one day finally saw the door wide open, his captor missing, the abundant sunshine and wide green forest beckoning to him?
However, just a few days and nights in this new environment, the boy got too scared of the new things - "creepy, crawly stuff, the whispering wind, things that go bump in the night". So he went back and stayed in his "safe" cell. (If this were a movie, this is when the audience collectively shouts "Ay, tanga! Kainis!" ["That's stupid! He is frustrating!"] ).
Well, it is eerily similar to what's happening back home with the Presidential elections. Barely 30 years have gone by from our last dictator, a lot of people are toying again with voting into office someone with similar tendencies. People are willing to risk going back into those dark times, for a promise of some semblance of peace and order. Some justify it as "dipping merely their toes", see what happens. However, Jefferson wisely said "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
That we look to someone to discipline us says MUCH more about us than the man.
And for some of us watching this unfold, we can only sigh and join the movie-goers' chorus.
You know the story of the boy who was locked up in his dark room almost all his life, and one day finally saw the door wide open, his captor missing, the abundant sunshine and wide green forest beckoning to him?
However, just a few days and nights in this new environment, the boy got too scared of the new things - "creepy, crawly stuff, the whispering wind, things that go bump in the night". So he went back and stayed in his "safe" cell. (If this were a movie, this is when the audience collectively shouts "Ay, tanga! Kainis!" ["That's stupid! He is frustrating!"] ).
Well, it is eerily similar to what's happening back home with the Presidential elections. Barely 30 years have gone by from our last dictator, a lot of people are toying again with voting into office someone with similar tendencies. People are willing to risk going back into those dark times, for a promise of some semblance of peace and order. Some justify it as "dipping merely their toes", see what happens. However, Jefferson wisely said "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
That we look to someone to discipline us says MUCH more about us than the man.
And for some of us watching this unfold, we can only sigh and join the movie-goers' chorus.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Plowing through winter into spring
There hasn't been much that happened between winter and spring, so really my photographs weren't ... inspired. Mostly I just took my camera and if something catches my eye, I snap. If nothing caught my eye, I just force my eye to look for something! I guess in the midst of the tedium of work and the bam-bam-bam rhythm of having three kids at home, I just wanted to kindle that photographic spark and not let it peter out.
I tried to join a few photo projects over one of my favorite forums seriouscompacts.com, and one of those was capturing an image for a favorite album. Of course the first album that comes to mind is Amy Winehouse's Back to Black (I think my iPod classic finally died just because of how much I played that album), and here's my attempt:
As you can see, it's pretty much still inside the house. Ugh.
Once, I even had to ask my kids to think of something silly that we haven't tried before. We experimented with lots of poses, and my phone quickly filled up with silly faces. All very funny (and I kept them all - maybe to show during their wedding? Haha!) but nothing new. Until we came up with this:
Once it warmed up I tried to revisit parts of my adopted city during breaks, and took a few snaps with my X100s.
I was just happy to be out at that time. Though, Boston being Boston, the sun shines just enough to thaw you out, and then hides again for a few days.
So it is no surprise I was positively giddy when a few of my long-time friends way back from college decided to converge in Boston. Will write about it next time.
I tried to join a few photo projects over one of my favorite forums seriouscompacts.com, and one of those was capturing an image for a favorite album. Of course the first album that comes to mind is Amy Winehouse's Back to Black (I think my iPod classic finally died just because of how much I played that album), and here's my attempt:
As you can see, it's pretty much still inside the house. Ugh.
Once, I even had to ask my kids to think of something silly that we haven't tried before. We experimented with lots of poses, and my phone quickly filled up with silly faces. All very funny (and I kept them all - maybe to show during their wedding? Haha!) but nothing new. Until we came up with this:
Once it warmed up I tried to revisit parts of my adopted city during breaks, and took a few snaps with my X100s.
I was just happy to be out at that time. Though, Boston being Boston, the sun shines just enough to thaw you out, and then hides again for a few days.
So it is no surprise I was positively giddy when a few of my long-time friends way back from college decided to converge in Boston. Will write about it next time.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
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