Anything “you’re a bit selfish or possessive about … a feeling you feel when you look at the photo, or perhaps an unwillingness to share?”
photo by Myra Lambino, doll dresses collection
(here’s the sample image from WordPress, photo by Sara Rosso, with text as quoted above, it’s a cup of coffee.
As it turns out, i have dozens and dozens of photos like this one — a cup of coffee, a cup of hot chocolate, a jigger of wheatgrass, a coconut water drink, a glass of whipped up carrot juice, etc…Oodles. but i thought i’d choose…the dream collection (something one’d be possessive about): organza, taffeta and silk — in gold and iridescent green. (i chose this on the basis of visual appeal: all-natural light, lush colors, etc… It’s not photojournalism, it’s not street photography, it’s not “stilllife photography”, it’s “splashy colors” photography.)
My post for the “Weekly Photo Challenge: Growth” is this photo shot by my sister, Myraleigh C. Lambino, of a starfish in Tondol Beach, Pangasinan, Philippines, when she and her colleagues, a team of doctors and nurses based in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Philippine Minnesotan Medical Association, held a medical mission in Central Philippines where they performed 60 plastic surgery cases, 28 ENT surgeries and 28 OB-gyne surgeries, multiple minor surgeries and dental procedures and saw hundreds of patients, mostly indigents. I chose the photo of a starfish for the theme “Growth”, maybe because I was being literal: a starfish can grow or re-grow and regenerate an entire lost arm including bones, flesh, muscle, skin, while some species can re-grow the rest of their bodies from a single remaining arm . If you could re-grow and regenerate lost organs and body parts, you’ll never have to see a doctor or need medicine. It’s like entering the phase of immortality, except that the starfish has a lifespan of 10 to 34 years. But who wants to be immortal when the thrill is about finding as much meaning, and helping as many people, within the limited time you have? So… perhaps i wasn’t being literal…. And that’s the starfish.
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(hindi ko lang alam kung dapat… shot within that week, eh pa’no naman araw-araw umuulan dito sa Pilipinas. Walong araw nang umuulan, going on it’s ninth day in a few hours — siyam-siyam. Madilim at blurry ang shots ko pag ganuon… unless you have a half a dozen kleig lights and a dozen staffmembers holding up big, wide umbrellas. Pero yung karamihan naman ng posts kung titingnan mo dated sila……………
