Wednesday, March 29, 2006

disappearing act

seems that i've been updating this blog once a month. and i don't care.

seems that writing- - -be it a short fiction, or merely as a minute entry in this journal- - - had become one tedious activity. i had somehow associated it with working out and cross-training or anything that results in physical stress. i know the metaphors exaggerate however i could not actually fathom the idea that squeezing your mental juices to put in a blank pad of paper (or an empty microsoft word document) had morphed to something exhausting.

the last time i did write something was two years ago. back when i'm languishing at a government institution in Manila. four short fictions and three unfinished ones, several film reviews of those that i've seen in dvds and two attempts at breaking the deadlock in blog-writing: blogger and live journal. it's obvious that i've broken the stalemate between the two and junked the other one (you could still visit the forgotten site by clicking on this link).

anyway, it's going to be a month since i last posted an entry here. my interests had gradually shifted from loving the words to seeing the world differently. images clung on shutters and apertures, obliterated the sentences and paragraphs like a big-bang in space. i don't know.

one thing, though. i lost my laptop. i bade farewell to my apple powerbook a week ago. somebody with itchy fingers decided to soothe the itch by stealing my notebook. a small fragment of my entirety was taken together with it- - -fiction and reviews that i wrote, pictures and music- - -everything vanished as if a bubble burst. i'm in the process of saving up for another one, anyway. i know, it's a struggle, but i believe i can. think of it as a challenge.

speaking of challenges, maybe someone or something can help me get back on track again...

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

causeway photoshoot

last sunday, sas and me drove to a causeway whose name i can't recall to do a photoshoot (actually, i was the one who insisted on the photoshoot since sas possess no interest whatsoever in photography- - -or anything that involves camera and whatnots). the weather was perfectly chilly, we're clocking a little below 50 degrees F, but the wind- - -oh! blasted wind, nearly blew my tripod down however i managed to scrimp a few photos. well, most of my shots were taken handheld and the above statement was a poetic exaggeration.

here's some of 'em:

shutter: 1/320, aperture: f/6.3, ISO 200, focal length: 30mm

a close-up shot of a metal trash bin. i had resized the image and tweaked it using a macintosh software called watermark pro. nonetheless, i made no other revisions on the photo aside from the watermark on the bottom right part and a black border.

shutter: 1/250, aperture: f/10, ISO: 280, focal length: 19mm

the view of the seaside part of the causeway from where we parked. I took this using the tripod i was talking about. notice the mildly violent gust of wind on the branches of the trees. the guard rail on the left serves as the threshold to a 60mph highway. this was shot in auto mode, as i was experimenting with the programmed shooting modes of the camera.

shutter: 1/320, aperture: f/5.6, ISO: 200, focal length: 35mm

slight close-up view of the large granite-like boulders that serves as the shoreline between the narrow path along the causeway and the tampa bay.

anyway, i'll try to post more on the photoshoot i conducted, but not before the continuation of our trek to georgia nearly a month ago. i'm still having the difficulty of transferring most of the photographs from my camera and into my computer- - -that maybe the reason on why i still haven't made some considerable progress on my writing regarding that trip.

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