NEIGHBOR WALK

It's end of the weekend again and I just want to lay still until the end of time. Like photographs.

DEAR YOU

• I guess I'm still wounded by the choice you have made. Despite that, I see you these days liking what you do, and maybe it's what I try to fight the bitterness with, that whatever you have decided to choose is worth leaving me for.

• Maybe I'm ready to forgive you now. Just, maybe.

• It's getting fun around you now. As refreshing it is to watch a budding friendship, I cannot help to be cautious too.

• We think alike and may have things in common more than we realize. If only you would stop acting like a little boy.

BOUGAINVILLEA

 Love this thorny vine/tree especially when the flowers are abundant.

A BUDDING HOPE

Patiently waiting, figuratively..

GOODBYE, APRIL!

To turn 27. A year of film photography. Casual walks, dinner foodtrips, golden hours. Days passed by with me lugging around with my old cameras and film. I have always yearned for something to call mine. I'm assuming everyone does. And I'm guessing too that this is innate, something that runs through our veins -- to hold on to something and deem it ours. A natural act to survive.

I have found mine in film. It's a joy, my joy. Despite the inquisitive looks I get the moment I hold a camera up to my face, their usual doubts as to how something primitive is still surfacing the modern times, and the little jokes you get for using something vintage. Despite that. No amount of doubt can break my love for film :)

The film days are numbered, they say. And that's exactly why this is a great time to live and shoot with film!

HELLO, APRIL!

April came from the Latin word aperire, which means to open, and in a way associated with the season where flower buds start to bloom. I didn't when I was a kid, but as I grew older, I have learned to appreciate being named after this month where dry ground springs to life :) Happy April, from me to you!

END OF THE WEEKEND

The road to the weekend is tedious and slow, yet once it comes, you can never have enough. Here's a set of photos from Bag of Beans' mini garden; my simple reminder of the good times away from work. Happy end of the weekend to all! :D

PENSIVE

Bought a pack of Kodak Ultima 100 last month, and although I almost always prefer warmth on my photos, I am enjoying this light blue tone as well. They sort of feel mute and gloomy, in a pensive kind of way.

POINSENTTIA ALL AROUND

Sightings of this Mexican shrub on different locations..

PART OF ME

I miss writing. I miss writing long, deep, yet nonsense paragraphs for hours as if I am making something out of nothing. I must have delegated a huge part of my expression into film photography, because although there is so much to tell from the inside, I usually feel like a well in drought when it comes to accompanying my photos even with a short description. Adjectives become harder and harder to pull out of my thin vocabulary and simple words become stale. I'd like to work out on it, though. A little bit more of reading could probably help, which reminds me that, I haven't touched a book in three months.

RECENT BLOOMS

MORNING

Woke up early one Saturday morning, picked up my camera and strolled along the neighborhood. I still need to learn how to deal better with direct/harsh light.