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∞ 5	I love the lights and shadows on this one. Nikon FE2 + Fuji Press 800
∞ 1	Nikon FE2 + Fuji Press 800 I can see how this film has the potential for fashion shots.
∞ 5	Kapok Tree Nikon FE2 + Kodak Elitechrome 400 (Expired, Cross-Processed) This is a kapok tree, also known as a Java cotton or Java kapok. I just found out that it’s an important symbol in Maya mythology, regarded as a sacred Tree of Life. In a quiet mountainside village where we have a resthouse, trees like this surround our street. They’ve been around for as long as I can remember, and my childhood friend’s late grandmother planted all of them. Every summer, when the kapok fruits are brown, plump, and ready to burst just like in the photo, she would start harvesting them, one by one. My friends and I would help her, climbing the trees or using a sungkit or kalawit (I don’t know the English counterpart, but it’s a long pole-like apparatus used to pick fruits on high, hard to reach areas of trees). By the end of the week, the kapok trees would be free of their fruits, and sacks of kapok cotton would be lined up outside their house, waiting to be sold. When she died several years ago, no one bothered to harvest the kapok fruits in her place, not even my childhood friend or his parents. So every summer, most of the kapok trees remain heavy with their fruits. When the afternoon breeze prods them strong enough, the fruits crash on the ground and break open to release balls of cotton in the air, much to the dismay of villagers who find kapok cotton stuck on their laundry and floating on their basins of water. I’m not sure if anyone else thinks of it this way, but I’ve always found the balls of cotton floating in the air and around the grassy areas a pretty sight. When I saw hordes of floating kapok cotton this summer, I was reminded of my childhood, and the diligent grandmother who planted the kapok trees.
∞ 4	City Lights Nikon FE2 + Kodak Elitechrome 400 (Expired, Cross-Processed)
∞ 4	Vigan Cathedral Bell Tower Vigan City, Ilocos Sur Nikon FE2 + DNP Centuria 100 (Expired)
∞ 5	It’s Gonna Rain Sofitel Philippine Plaza, facing Manila Bay Nikon FE2 + DNP Centuria 100 (Expired)
∞ 6	Smiles Vigan, Ilocos Sur Nikon FE2 + Konica Minolta Centuria Chrome 200 (Cross-Processed, Expired)
∞ 2	Clay Vases Vigan, Ilocos Sur Nikon FE2 + Konica Minolta Centuria-Chrome 200 (Expired, Cross-Processed)
∞ 5	Through the lens (Ken the Nikon FE2)
∞ 5	Lo-Fi Love (Me, shot by Sephy) Vigan, Ilocos Sur Nikon FE2 + Konica Minolta Centuria Chrome 400 (Expired, Cross Processed)
∞ 13	Strawberries ♥♥♥ Baguio City, Philippines Nikon FE2 + Kodak Ultima 100
∞ 2	Larga Vista Minesview Park, Baguio City Nikon FE2 + Kodak Ultima 100
∞ 1	Welcome to Baguio City Minesview Park, Baguio City Nikon FE2 + Kodak Ultima 100
∞ 2	Bye Bye, Vigan Ilocos Sur, on the way to Baguio Nikon FE2 + Kodak Ultima 100
∞ 2	Inside Vigan Cathedral Vigan, Ilocos Sur Nikon FE2 + Kodak Ultima 100

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