Wedding Photography by Edelle Ryan Macalandag
It is fun to shoot a wedding of friends yet again. Shary or "Doc Shary" to her colleagues at the Gov. Galleres Memorial Hospital in Tagbilaran City where she works went to UP Diliman for her bachelor's degree. Being a fellow Boholano, I got to know her then. It helped also that his younger brother, Jepoi, was a high school classmate.
Joseph and I went to the same high school (Bohol School of Arts and Trades) but they were a year older than us. But we had the same sets of friends since we were also Youth for Christ (YFC) members.
Please click the link to see more photos after the jump.
For more photos, please visit my flickr account.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Preview: Joseph & Shary
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Another Set of Tagbilaran Wharf Sunsets
Photos by Edelle Ryan Macalandag
I have three sets of friends. One who calls me by my house-name "Ryan". Two, friends who call me by my school-name "Edelle". It's funny when in school they call you by your first, first name even if you're really used to calling yourself the second first name. The third set of friends are the ones who call me "Edelle" yet introduce me as "Ryan". Same as I am, they're confused.
Thus, as I have, I always introduce myself as "Ryan Macalandag", especially online. It's easier. But, I just recently ran some Google searches using "Edelle Macalandag" and the engine returned poor results. Not even a page-one hit for this site, my banner/blog site. Crap. What if my classmates from high school or elementary tried to Google me? They won't get anything. They will get a list of nursing board passers with my sister's name in it.
Hopefully, this post will do the SEO trick. But mind you, I will still introduce myself as "Ryan Macalandag". So, if ever you'll see me walking down the street, you don't have call me "Edelle Ryan".
Right. So, here are some pics from a recent trip down the Tagbilaran City Pier/Wharf/Seaport at sunset.
For more photos from this set, please visit my flickr account.
Monday, December 01, 2008
Loboc-AFA Watershed Project Video Documentary
Here is one of the documentary videos I've made so far. We shot this for a month and edited the video in about the same time also.
Producer: Bohol Alliance of NGOs (BANGON)
Narrator: Joan Llanos
Writer: Regina Estorba-Macalandag
Camera/Editor: Ryan Macalandag
Music: Eric Catot / Charlven Remolador
Original Music for this documentary video was recorded at SoundGarage Recording Studios with Roy Tutor at the mixing board.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Random Crawlies
Macro Photography by Ryan Macalandag
For more photos, please visit my flickr set.
Lazy Saturday - Motocross Practice
Photos by Ryan Macalandag
Lazy Saturdays aren't so nice. Lazy Sundays are but never Saturdays. It's not time to rest and be lazy yet, it seems. And when there's nothing much to do, I become fidgety. Especially when nursing a throbbing head from Friday's nightcap.
So, I guess it was a good thing that Earl (Rhea's - Roy's sister - hubby) had invited me to watch a motocross practice in Baclayon. Earl used to ride but since a clutch handle pierced his left stomach open, he quit. That or Rhea is adamant about keeping him safe.
Windsor and Butch, both riders for Bohol-based Team Du Ek Sam, were already running laps, practicing corners and churning mud all over the place when we arrived. The sound of the revvs and the smell of burnt oil added to the whole feel of the track.
The two riders were practicing for a national finals race in Carcar, Cebu the following week. Butch relates that they had to practice cornerning since that's where you either earn or lose crucial seconds. Practicing in mud also helps. The more track conditions a rider is familiar with, the better the chances are on race day.
Windsor, on the other hand, designs tracks. He designed this Baclayon track and was to push for Cebu a few days after to design the Carcar track - the very track he will be competing at. Talk about a huge advantage.
More photos in my flickr account.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Camiguin Revisited -- Lanzones Festival 08
Travel Photos by Ryan Macalandag
Yep, we did "travel" via the P400-peso slow ferry to Camiguin from Jagna but we didn't really get to travel around Camiguin because of the damned rain. I shot a few frames though during the "travel" so that should qualify them as "travel photographs" and me, a "travel photographer".
You can puke now.
That is me holding Deb's camera with my wide Tokina lens attached. It's an old (and dusty, offered to clean it) Nikon film camera with the nifty-fifty (Nikon 50mm 1.8) as a primary lens (used with my D80 on this photo).
Nah, really, I'm just a guy roaming around with a digital camera. So that makes me more of a "Roaming Photographer" and my photos "roaming photographs". Less stomach-upsetting terms. (more photos after the jump)
So we left Jagna at 1 p.m. (Saturday, October 25) aboard the Super Shuttle Ferry. We were a decent group of 12 adults plus a bunch of kids. There was me and Lourd (photographers), Scott the Crazy Aussie, Lee and Debbie with their kids, the French guy (forgot his name) with his Filipina wife and daughter, Anna Marie also French and Lenny a Swiss-based Boholana who's back for some vaca-time. Bea, another photographer, went early the previous day and was already in Camiguin.
The voyage was so slow that we finished a couple movies and arrived at a little past 6pm in Camiguin. It was already dark by then.
Later that night, after checking in at our hotel (I booked Caves Dive Resort), we went out to the Mambajao to get dinner. The group opted for an eat-all-you-can over at a restaurant at the Old Parola Strip in front of Pedros'. I forgot the name but it had a blinking lighthouse on its signage. Buffet was great! I was quite literally stuffed.
By the time, we were finished, everyone was already out in the streets for the street party sponsored by San Miguel. We all wobbled out with our stomachs all full. The street was crawling with people and we had to stand by the sides coz there wasn't one table left for us. We had beer either way.
We left quite to soon after a couple grandes of beer. At that moment, sleep was the better option than beer - which is seldom. Either way, Lourd and I also had to prepare for the next day's shoot...
...which never happened because it rained so hard early in the morning and never stopped until later in the day. We felt that our schedule for the day was pretty much wasted and after breakfast we opted to go the hot springs instead. Scott, Lee and Harisson (Lee's 6-year old) went up to Hibok-hibok despite of the weather. Crazy people. They came back alive though, thank God.
Ann Marie, bless her French soul, was terrible at calculating distances and thought the way up to Ardent Hot Springs was "not that far". So we went (me, Lourd, Lenny, Deb and her younger sons, Jordan and Will) and did the 3.5 kilometer one-hour uphill walk. It was far alright. My legs, both in pain, agreed.
We never got to swim in the hot pool though, Lourd and me. We didn't have anything dry to place our cameras on as all of the cottages were occupied -- even if we paid for the P75 cottage fee.
I should not have brought my camera with me 'coz my shots were pretty lousy anyways.
Lourd and I decided to break away from the group and go to Mambajao to cover the street dancing. The streets were all closed for the 15 contingents. Based on Bea's shots of the previous day's street dancing, Sunday's event paled in comparison. So, with empty stomachs, we chose to do lunch at Pedro's instead. We hungrily devoured the kinilaw, grilled fishm, lapu2x soup and mounds of hot rice while listening to the slowly fading sound of drums and chants. The street dance finished after our little feast at around 2:30. It was really a lousy day.
So we went back to the resort and found Lee and Debbie with the kids on the beach. Lourd decided to experiment a bit and use the Black and White (BW) functions of our digital cameras and experiment. It was really cool not having to see the color and only mind the framing and moment. Shooting BW freed our vision of all the junk bland color of the foul-weathered day that it was. It was amazing.
Scott, Lee and Debbie were more than willing subjects! I borrowed Deb's 50mm 1.8 lens to do some nice portraits.
By the way, one more bad thing that happened was that the lazones harvest this year was really bad. At P85 per kilo compared to last year's P15 per kilo, we had no chance of buying for chow since there wasn't any sold.
I saw Bea's photos from Saturday's street dancing (when the sun was up and shining and the dancers were all nicely costumed) and saw not a single lanzones. Where art thou oh sweet succulent fruit?
Scott explained it was the earth's way to replenish the nutrients from last year's bountiful harvest. Lee heard from the driver that this phenomenon happens during even numbered years. Last year, 2007, was fine.
In the next hour after that, we just basically chilled and waited for the sun to set.
When the sun finally did set, it was glorious. The color was rich and warm. It was as though the sun was trying to make up for its full day's absence. It didn't mind the still gray and thick clouds hanging.
After sunset, it was again boring. The rain resumed to drizzle which didn't stop until early in the morning when it really poured.
I slept in my little cot with a rock-hard pillow under my head and thought what a waste traveling for naught. The damn rain sucks.
I woke up late and had to hurry to catch the 8am slow boat back to Bohol. As the boat sluggishly maneuvered its way into the Bohol Sea with the beautiful island of Camiguin capped with gray storm clouds in the background, I thought, at least I still have a reason to go back next year.
When the rain won't pour and the lazones will be back.
For more photos from this set, please visit my flickr page.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Travel: Inabanga, Bohol
Travel Photography by Ryan Macalandag
Inabanga, Bohol, Philippines
So I went to the town of Inabanga here in Bohol last week to take photos for their website. These are just some of the pictures I took. I shot a total of 500 images in two and a half days. (In the afternoon of the second day, we got rained in.)
Nature and Scenery
Municipal Officials & Employees
People
To view more photos from this set:
www.flickr.com/ryanmacalandag
www.inbanga.gov.ph
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