Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone! May you all be more prosperous, healthy and peaceful and please be kind to the Planet this year!

Fun with iPhone Camera

The fun thing with iPhone cameras are the many Apps you can use to achieve different looks with your photos.

Looking Down

Light Glass and Shadows

More Summer Icons

Beach day at Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Leica M2, CV Color Skopar 35mm f2.5 lens
Film: Kodak Ultra Gold 400

Rediscovered Summer Pictures

While browsing my hard drive I rediscovered a few unrelated photos taken in the summers past.

Cape Cod

Recent vacation photos from Cape Cod. We also got a chance to meet a local sculptor in Provincetown, Michael Kacergis, a very interesting and friendly artist.


Camera: Leica M2, CV Color Skopar 35mm f2.5 lens
Film: Kodak BW 400 CN, Kodak Gold Max 400, Fuji Superia 200

Sinag Group Photo Exhibition

I participated in the Sinag group photo exhibition at the gallery in the Philippine Center in New York City. Sinag is an association of Filipino photographers in the New York - New Jersey area.

Poster design by Eddie Belen.

Latin Street Jam

My Latino neighbors celebrated 4th of July with an impromptu street jam.

Film: Kodak BW400CN

Tassa Drums At Flushing Meadows

Last Saturday I attended the opening reception of my friend Cork Lee's exhibition, Asian Pacifically New York at the Queens Museum of Art at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.  Corky is a photo-journalist who specializes in documenting the experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander American communities of New York. His work is a great source of inspiration for me.
After the reception, I was on my way to the parking lot when I heard loud drum beats coming from the park. To my pleasant surprise a small Indian group was doing a celebration in the park with their drums. Above are some images I captured of the event with my little Olympus XA2. I dedicate these images to Corky.

Edit: After some Googling I found that the above event is the Annual Kitchrie Festival, a Hosay pageant. Hosay is an Indian street theater tradition originating in north Indian states, i.e., Uttar Pradesh and Jaipur, and brought to Trinidad in 1845 by East Indian indentured laborers whose descendents continue to practiced it in a cultural space that is uniquely Indo-Caribbean.

Film: Fujicolor 200

My Summer Lunch Time Hangout