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Hmmm... what's this? A trilogy? You can only get away with canned formula for so long. There's a limit to people's patience and gullibility so unless it's the caliber of Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or The Godfather -- don't push your luck with the same hard selling plot or production. So please, please forgive this Enteng Kabisote.
By the turn of the 20th century, doom prophets foretold the death of painting due to the fast emergence of photography. In stark contrast, these days I see more and more digital photographers produce work with painting-like feel. Manny Librodo, one of the best travel portrait photographers, comes up with photos with pre-Raphaelite lighting in his recent Cambodia trip. Dominique James' recent photos in the Mobile Philippines' exhibit are teeming with wayward lines of electric abstraction. Here's another dose of dusk cloud studies.
It was Belgian expat fashion photographer Frank Hoefsmit who taught me to look at the sky and the horizon at dusk or dawn as a long-time photo project. The colors are different he says (I am paraphrasing or waxing poetic now), richer, more intense and something magical happens if you just let go and sway with the flow (read:slow shutter speed with deliberate camera shake). Frank is one of Manila's image makers who continues to inspire me. And then there's Esta Bien.
