Sunday, August 14, 2016

Trees Brew Life 2

Employees from San Miguel Brewery, Inc. plant trees along the riverbank of Matina Pangi River, Davao City on August 13, 2016. For four straight years now, SMB has partnered with the Barangay Government of Matina Pangi to reforest identified areas of the barangay as part of its TREES BREW LIFE initiative. 

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Uno, Dos ay Mungos

Local folks in Surigao City carries altogether a house to be transferred in a nearby location. Polling manpower resources voluntarily to perform a task is one of the Filipino traits in the past that is still practiced today occasionally.

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Samal Fisher

A fisher folk in Samal Island takes a breather after hunting for fishes in this shallow portion of the ocean near the docking area of vessels navigating from Davao City to IGACOS.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Dampa

Dampa is a traditional Pinoy game common to the children especially in the barrios. The raw materials of this game are rubber bands. This one here I shoot while the Badjao kids in Apo Beach, Sta. Cruz were playing it. 

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Sungkitero

Collecting mature coconut fruits using this traditional "sungkit" is still a common practice employed by coconut farmers in the rural areas. This one being done in Darong, Sta. Cruz particularly in the Relampagos coco farm just beside Sibulan Riverbak.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Flight for Freedom, Aspiration and Vision

A kid in Padada, Davao del Sur maneuvers his flag kite as a sidelight activity of Kite-Flying Festival culmination day on May 15, 2016 at the Quirino Grounds of Padada. Kite-flying is now on its 5th season and it has been identified as a main tourism activity of the town.

Monday, May 2, 2016

Tuxying the Abaca

A farmer from sitio Colan in Barangay Sibulan, Sta. Cruz is shown here tuxying his newly-harvested abaca trunks. After tuxying, he would then extract the fiber. With the introduction of high-input vegetables in the highlands particularly in Mt. Apo Natural Park, abaca is not anymore given attention by farmers, thereby only very few of them cultivate the supposed valuable and lucrative commodity.