My 1st Photography Community exposure

Last July 11, 2011, all third year DevCom students who enrolled in Photography class had a community exposure.

The venue was in Brgy. Lapasan. Both section A (devjourn majors) and section B (edCom majors) were grouped and designated to different host families.

Nanay Patria preparing our snack :D
Photo taken by me

My group mates- Chum, Keith, Iris, Mich and I were warmly welcomed by Nanay Patria, our host family. She quickly prepared a snack for us. She served a juice and biscuits. We had introduced ourselves to her properly, state our purpose why we are there and many more.

I am so blessed with her as she shared to us how she brought up her children and grandchildren as well. She shared to us how they strive as a family for the education of everybody. Now she has grand sons who are nursing students in Capitol University. One of them is a graduating student this school year. Their house had testified how inclined to medical field they are. I saw a lot of medicines, certificates and medical equipments in their home. However, we were not able to have a good scope inside their house. So we asked her permission if we can go outside and take a photo walk. “oo, kayo oi… mas dasigon jud tamu na mugawas. Adto mu didto dapit sa dagat ky tsada kayo to picturan… na saon taman gamay man ni amonmg balay oi, la pod moy ma picturan dani.” she encourages.

As we step out from their house, we started to be amazed of the beauty of the site. Many children are playing. Their water system, livelihood and house structures amazed me.

My groupmates Iris and Keith, familiarizing the DSLR parts
(a digicam black and white photo taken by me, while waiting for my turn)

Yet my eyes was captured with the Kawayan. The bamboo bridge they had was so nice that it become my subject. As we go along, we reached the unfinished sea wall that protects the residents from the rising of water level. I notice that there lots of boats. So I took some pictures of it, but the rope which ties the boat and seal it from water leaks gets my attention, so that makes my other subject. The other subject of mine was a shoes I a seaside…, while I was looking on those wrecked shoes everywhere, I remember Nanay Patria who shared how their family experience a flood as the seawater level rises. The house beside theirs was already gone so their whole family evacuated immediately.

So the time I saw those shoes, I can’t help myself but to look back on those lives that was taken in that flood.

As I take all those photos and following the guidelines given to us, I realized that taking a god photo would never be easy. Like me who doesn’t have a camera that time, is waiting patiently for my group mate to lend me her camera. Another thing is I am not familiar with her cam and don’t know how to do it -the aperture and shutter speed thing. I am a tactile learner so I can’t relate to or lectures in Photography for I don’t have any cam to hold and practice on. Along the way, the jeepney we rode, kay namasada pa, that is why we arrived late at the community. So we started late too. We were given only an hour and half to take photos, which limit our exploration to the area. However, I was able to appreciate my life and excited as a devcomm student. To capture thoughts and emotions.