2 1/2 months in the Philippines: Jan/Feb/March 2005 Photo Gallery by Paul James at pbase.com

2 1/2 months in the Philippines: Jan/Feb/March 2005

Armed with my Olympus E1 digital SLR, I landed in Manila - spent time in a very small Barangay in Pampanga, rented a house in a small sea-side community in Cebu - spent a few days on a Mountain in the Naga Jungle, a few days in Southern Leyte, and spent some quality time on Bantayan Island, my favorite place in all of Philippines.
It was on this trip that I began using much more of my own travel money to feed some of the most needy street children I've known & fed since my 2003 trips - my motivation to aid them has since led me to create http://www.ProjectRice.Org which has since May & June 2006, become an ongoing effort to sponsor their food, clothing & basic healthcare needs, made possible through the generosity of a few wonderfull friends who contacted me after seeing my pbase image Galleries.

http://www.projectrice.org

In the meantime, I'll be working to post the images I think are the most interesting...please vote for the images you like, and as always - I do appreciate your comments & thoughts.
Thank you for looking!

PJAMES

*UPDATE March 2006 - I just returned from my latest trip to the Philippines, and I've started to post some of my favorite images - please stop by & take a look at my latest images:
http://www.pbase.com/pauljames/expressions
From Manila in March 2006 I also began posting & writing a dedicated ProjectRice pbase Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/pauljames/project_rice

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:: 7 days on Bantayan Island, Cebu Philippines ::	:: A few days on the Mountain: Naga Jungle ::	Inchon airport, South Korea	Mama, Naga-Mountain 1	wowBantayan.com is Bantayan Island's 2010 Travel Guide
Gu-Tong, market	Gu-Tong, playing	Gu-Tong breakfast, Cebu	Lapu Lapu Festival 1	Lapu Lapu Festival 2
Sisters Cebu montage	Sisters: Lisa & LetLet	Lisa, LetLet & friends	mirrored smile, Cebu	E1_signature.jpg
Beauty in Palm Beads	Tribal Pendant, Cebu	Beauty in puka necklace	Lisa: expressive eyes	close crop smile

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Paul James		27-Mar-2009 04:30
To: Patricia Cielo bushit23@yahoo.com Thanks for your comments & I'm glad you enjoy my work - but I do not give out "Free" Photography, nor allow my intellectual property to be used without my expressed permission so please email me directly for more information on licensing my images & content. PJAMES

Patricia Cielo		08-Mar-2009 09:27
Hi sir! Your photographs are utterly exquisite. Would it be possible for us to borrow some of your works for a health advocacy campaign in Manila? Thank you so much sir, and we hope to hear from you soon.

Paul James		22-Apr-2008 13:31
TO KC: Thank you much for your very kind comments, and for visiting wowBantayan.com ..it's been a labor of love for me to depict Bantayan Island photographically & to provide the most accurate travel info. for people heading there; it's truly a very beautiful Island indeed. PJAMES

kc		20-Apr-2008 16:20
your love for our country is overwhelming. I saw your website wowbantayan.com, it is very enriching and can definitely provide much needed information for those who want to go to bantayan (not only for foreigners but also Filipinos). More power to your magnificent work.

mj		22-Dec-2006 14:32
thanks for your interest in the philippines.

Paul James		24-Mar-2005 16:58
Hi Dean, You're exactly right - the photo op's are all around you when you're there; the locals in the neighborhoods where I stay are used to seeing me with my camera, and many times I forego taking pics, just to chat a bit, or to buy what I need in the markets, etc - so they're pretty receptive when I am taking photographs.......I never "set up" my shots, I always try my best to keep it very real & very candid. I also keep it simple with the post-processing in Photoshop - just a bit of levels & unsharp mask, that's it; the colors & contrasts as they come right from the camera JPEGS.

Dean Swope		24-Mar-2005 07:04
Great gallery Paul, it is hard to go wrong when the people and scenery are so inspiring eh?... it is incredible to see.. i like the great color saturation use of light the candid nature of the pics and as I look at your pictures it reminds me so much of my trip in '03. the hill top reminds me of a place we went to also in the hill tops behind the city of cebu proper.. it was so awesome winding up the dirt road and a rooster fight in a wide spot on the road had to clear so we can pass... it was so quiet no cabs tricycles or even a motor bike could be heard.. ahhhh sweet memories... Dean

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