Vagabond Photographs

I’ve never thought of myself as a vagabond, a drifter, a wanderer. I’ve always fancied myself as someone who needs and wants stability and monotony, someone who needs to be around people all the time.

I guess I’ve changed. Or I must have known myself better.

I now have this craving to go places, even if I’m alone. I will not feel lonely because I will be looking at things and people through the lens of my camera, Ixty (short for Ixus 60).

I am now nurturing my love affair my new basic point-and-shoot digicam. I never had an interest in photography before. And I did not care whether I had a camera with me when I travel. As long as I have my ever-reliable N6600, then I can go places. I went to India and Singapore alone, awed at how photogenic these places were, especially the village scenes in rural India. I took some photos with my camera phone, and was quite happy with the pixelated photos I had. But now, on hindsight, it would have been amazing if I had a decent digital camera with me.

In 35 days, I would be going back to the Philippines. And I am really excited to take photos of the places and people back home. I am even excited to go home to my hometown and capture its simple beauty through Ixty’s lens.

Together with my dyosas, we booked a flight to Palawan as early as last month. We will have our Palawan escapade in two months, and I feel that Ixty too, is trembling with excitement at this prospect.

Baguio is another place where Ixty and I will nurture our affair. One week in this charming city would mean gigabytes of new photos. Pure bliss!

Here are some photos from Ixty and me:

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/norlygrace/albums

Bicol, Pearl farm, India and Singapore photos – from N6600
Bali photos – by Ram



14 April 2007
Saturday
02:05 pm
Penang