Anvaya Cove Travel Photography

Visited on April 9, 2010

Notes from the Author.  I had another travel photography trip in Anvaya Cove last week,  conducted by the Filipinas Heritage.  Anvaya Cove is Ayala Land’s first leisure community located in Morong Bataan, not very far from Subic Bay.   It’s an exclusive beach resort with beach lots  for sale.  Aside from the beach, they have a nature camp for company team building activities.

It was excruciatingly hot that day and to take photos in the middle of the day was not fun at all.  My thoughts were somewhere else like taking a dive into the pool or sleeping (haha).

But I paid for a photography workshop, so I had to make an effort at least to take good pictures or pretend.     I would say that my best shots weren’t about the beach or the pools (which were really inviting at that time), but  my shots of nature, people and the beach life.

Here are some of my best shots:

Good Friday Processions

Taken on  April 2, 2010

Notes from the Author.   A common Catholic practice in the Philippines during Good Friday or “Biyernes Santo” are the religious processions.  Catholics  join in as the different statues of Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, St. Peter and other significant characters during the time of crucifixion of Christ are paraded across town.

This year was my first time to join a procession.  It was a long and arduous walk under the summer heat,  which lasted about 2 hrs and 45 mins.   Truly it was a form of sacrifice.  And every year, Catholics would join processions as a way of showing their devotion to Christ, Mother Mary and the saints.  My relatives always join every year, and they have been walking for more than 30 years.