Alegria, Cebu




February 24, 2005. Cebu City Charter Day and I was off to the southwest to join some people supposedly to repair the buoys in the town's sanctuaries. Mostly I just went snorkeling, went around town talking to the local officials and listening to their fisheries problems. But because it was on the western side of Cebu, we got a really good view of the sunset. The next day, EDSA Anniv, I was on the eastern side of the island, so I got to shoot the moonrise for the first time. THAT album coming up next.

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  1. rose talladenMarch 6, 2005 at 5:05 PM

    "Is this the thing God made to have dominion over lands and seas?" (The Man With The Hoe) Some allusions?

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  2. Jeneen GarciaMarch 6, 2005 at 6:57 PM

    nope. don't know that quote =)

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  3. Jeneen GarciaMarch 6, 2005 at 7:35 PM

    nope. it's just a house beside the sea owned by one of the LGU people

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  4. XXXX YYYYMarch 6, 2005 at 9:42 PM

    yes, that's Edwin Markham's "Man with a Hoe", good picture :)

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  5. XXXX YYYYMarch 6, 2005 at 9:47 PM

    this is so sweet :)

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  6. Byron CanedaMarch 7, 2005 at 9:07 PM

    This one's really nice.
    I felt so at peace just staring at the pic.
    I could only imagine what it's like being actually there.

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  7. Jeneen GarciaMarch 7, 2005 at 11:23 PM

    actually, you can see the first picture where he's really shy and hiding behind his mother. but as i sat there smiling at him, he gradually got used to me and little by little he was smiling back and walking towards me, until finally he got really close and hugged my leg. soon he was calling me "ate". now THAT's a sweet victory =)

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  8. Jeneen GarciaMarch 10, 2005 at 12:24 AM

    this is proof of the collective unconscious--or that art (truth and beauty) is really all around us and we're just instruments meant to express this art in our own way when we learn how to "tune in" to this creative energy. because i've never come across that poem =)

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  9. kitty galoreMarch 10, 2005 at 5:31 PM

    nice naman!!! kuyog ko sunod =)

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  10. Jerome RodilMay 12, 2005 at 12:46 AM

    unsa man ni?

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  11. Jeneen GarciaMay 12, 2005 at 4:54 AM

    gulong yan na sinemento. it's a weight that was sunk in the sanctuary. that's where the buoys were tied. minsan naman, they just find a rock or massive coral at the bottom to tie the buoy to.

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