boypulbo goes surreal

this is my first attempt to surreal photography.. banban pa ako, i was just inspired by giniling festival for this theme :)

special thanks to vincent "boytawa" for taking a picture of me, and joshua "the pogi" for his precious palm. :)

musikapella 2008 @ UP Theatre

panget ng pwesto ko, and wala din ako matinong "glass" .. heheh

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29083316@N03/sets/72157607557035529/

with performances by 12 choirs from different schools, including my beloved alma mater, Letran.

with band performances by Nyctinasty and Urbandub. (timing nanaman ang pagbisita ko, sakto andun sila.) nung may banda na, tumakbo na ako papunta sa harap, para kunwari totoong cncover ko ang event. wahahah

nyctinasty at UST

eto muna, paboritoko to eh.. to follow na ang iba :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29083316@N03/2889867543/

the two kinds of deviant

there are two kinds of deviant. one is a loner, one is a traitor.
:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29083316@N03/2884354029/

the cross at a high vantage point

love stated in a seemingly complex abstract

:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29083316@N03/2881352425/ for precise saturation

galing kay gene

boypulbo is vain! hahahahah

Mother Mary in the modern world

"WHAT ABOUT NOW?"

She's still the same old brand new. She never changed what once she was. She's still our mother, the light of our home, the one who prays for us, sinners.

PSALM 29

Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

boypulbo goes classic

seems like the film was processed in a classical way. parang bagong uso pa lang ang colored film. so i edited it more to make it look like and stand to be classic :)

for professor P.

*i'll coin you professor P. because as we all know, and what i believe others do also see in you, you are a one-of-a-kind philanthropist.

You have been a good prof based on what i have experienced and what other past students of yours have testified. "Inside the classroom we're professionals, but outside we're friends" it's what you said on the first day of our meeting.

Honestly, at first i was afraid of you. All the while I thought you personally know who i am - the one who was so frustrated last semester with his thesis proposal, and asked you an advise. All the while I thought that you recognize me as that boy. I thought again that as you are given this semester the task to handle our class, also you are given the proposed topics that our class had for the past (i'd rather not state a descriptive word here) semester. I have just had this weird feeling that you know what i did last sem and you wanted me to have a complete revision.

Anyhow, i was wrong. The one that I thought was an almost-a-monster prof was indeed an opposite. You've been a good friend to me, heard my stories and gave me some scholarly advises in the different situations that your ears (and brain) heard from me. Know what, I'm glad that you were assigned to be our professor. Aside from the fact that you inspire us with knowledge and passion in teaching and help us see a light in our way out of this thesis (which we should've had way before), you also treated me as your friend: one of those people whom you share some of your problems with.

What amazed me more is that, you help people so much, especially your students, past and present, who "suffer" in different situations. I can see how hard you work (with this, let me include the bank issue :) ) as an NGO employee and as a professor. But instead of being busy taking care of your own business, you end up having a hearing with your so called "clients" who seek help from you. You are such a wonderful person. Like what I have told you, "you are like a modern prophet (in your own BIG ways)".

It's hard to find someone like you nowadays. I mean as a student, it's hard to find a prof who also considers me as a friend outside the four corners of the classroom. Yes, thesis writing is probably a boring and uninteresting subject especially to amateurs and beginners like us. But with your way of teaching, I dunno if i have told this to you lately, I can sense the spice that you blend in the course to make us more interested in taking it. I admire you a lot, dear professor P, the way you teach, the way you approach your students, the way you mingle with us, the way you share your ideas and many more. 

With all of these, let me say thank you for being a good (and this adjective handles a wide range of 'goodness' in you) prof and friend. This semester is nearly ending, and i do hope that even though you won't be my (our) professor anymore, we can still find time "taking some walk along lacson street after some hang out along dapitan."

Cheers! :)

love stories and situations

still life with symbols.
feel free to interpret. i'll leave the titles as is. =)

argh! i suffered from saturation once more =(
just visit my flickr account for more accurate color saturation and quality =)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29083316@N03/

bawat sentimo ay mahalaga

macro-macrohan

my first macro trial..
super shallow DOF, almost wala nang detail..
reversed lens used..

-bano mode again

enjoy :)

cousins

boypulbo's younger version

random room stuff

grayscale

Ironically, the cover is not in grayscale.
Here are the variation of results of my little experiment on the RGB filter grayscale.

bano-mode

Copeland - Take Care (acoustic)

intramuros

wala nang post process ito hahaha


vanity defines 4ca4 =)

"tunay na kaibigan lamang ang tatanggap sa akin kahit basa ang kili kili ko."

boypulbo tries to pan once more

this time, it goes with a RAW format and post processed in CS3. good thing that this time, the uploaded file has the same color quality (i mean saturation) as to what i have processed (compared to less saturated former uploads).

shot in a very bright day, (with apertures so small that the mini particles (sadly) became visible).