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Parade of the Marching Bands

Ricky — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:02:56 +0000

The highlight of the festivities of the Bacoor Town Fiesta is the Parade of the Marching Bands, 9 local bands & 5 bands from the neighboring municipalities marched & display their skills along the Evangelista St. of the Town of Bacoor.

Anak Zapote Band, if I’m not mistaken the oldest band in Bacoor.

Banda 96, is one of the 2 pioneer band in Bacoor.

D’ Original Band was formed in honor of the late Prof. Hilarion F. Rubio, a native of Digman, Bacoor, Cavite.

Family Band (as I heard) is the newest band in town.

Banda 1 of Gov. P.F. Espiritu, one of the 4 bands coming from Barangay Panapaan.

Banda 8, another band coming from Bgy. Panapaan.

San Lorenzo Ruiz Band from Barangay Aniban, Bacoor.

St. Michael’s Band also from Panapaan.

The pioneer band from Panapaan, Bacoor, the El Gobernador Band.

Now the bands from the neighboring municipalities:

Banda 74 from Kawit, Cavite.

Banda San Roque of Silang, Cavite.

Banda Sta. Monica of Tanza, Cavite.

Banda 93 of Silang Cavite.

And the Rosarian Band from Rosario, Cavite.

The best Marching Band was judged after the parade together with the best Marching Majorette, Best Drum Major & Baton Twirling Contest. The contest were only opened to the 5 guest bands, Bacoor’s Town Mayor, Hon. Edwin “Strike” Revilla was there to witness the activity & award the winners with prizes.

For those who asked on how I did the “painting” look on the photos, blame the LucisArt@trade; Photoshop plug-in for that.

Karakol 2008 @ Bacoor, Cavite

Ricky — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:30:34 +0000

We were commissioned to cover this years Bacoor Town Fiesta, it’s a 2 day celebration from 10 to 11 May 2008. May 10 is the Karakol (Street dancing), it is when devotees of St. Michael the Archangel & the Blessed Mother of the Rosary dance on the street as praise & thanksgiving to their Patrons.

May 11 is the Town Fiesta where the highlight of the events is the Parade of the Marching Bands, this year, 13 bands will be marching the town’s Evangelista Street. I’ll post the photos next time

Balloons Flying the Air

Ricky — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:10:14 +0000

The 12^th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta is currently being held at the Clark Free Port Zone in Pampanga, I was there yesterday to witness the event, here are some of the photos I’ve taken.

The event will be held until tomorrow 10 February 2008, there’s more than the balloon to witness, the Philippine Air Force & Navy pilots & sky divers were also present to exhibit their skills. To see my personal account of the event, please see it here.

Feast of the Black Nazarene

Ricky — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:16:09 +0000

I’m back to being a hobbyist! Today I went to witness the 401^st Feast of the Black Nazarene in Quaipo, Manila, I had the first hand experience of the crowd that I only see in television. I processed the images to an old film look effect for it to have a different presentation.

I can’t believe what my eyes have seen, this is one hell of a crowd, the police has estimated the crowd to be at around 3 Million, I believe there’s more.

People from everywhere flocked the streets of Quiapo to fulfill their devotion to the Black Nazarene.

Of course, the politicians won’t be left behind, instead of actually being there, they’ve printed their names to the t-shirts & distributed to the devotees. Yes they were there in spirit, or maybe in shirts.

It was hard to find a vantage point, the best place to shoot was on top of a building but I wasn’t able to find one, I found a good place within the Carlos Palanca St. near Mayer’s Photo, then the parade started & we were mobbed!

Here are some of the shots I took within that area.

From there I went to Quezon Bridge to find a better view of the parade, by this time the image of the Black Nazarene just made it’s first round.

The next shot was taken while I was on top of a fire volunteer’s fire engine, this time I have a better vantage point

Around 4:30PM when I left the place, I don’t wanna be caught in one hell of a traffic congestion. It was quite an experience having covered it the first time.

Higantes Festival of Angono

Ricky — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:12:00 +0000

The Higantes Festival of Angono will happen next Friday, 23^rd of November 2007, the highlight of the festival are the gigantic paper machès dancing in the street. The festival is in honor of San Clemente, the patron saint of the fishermen.

A Photo Ops/EB is being organized at the PiPho Forum which I might join, I hope that there’ll be no conflict in my schedule. I’ve never been to this festival, I’m quite worried about the warning of getting wet, it has been a tradition to sprinkle (or even throw) waters to the spectators, I hope my camera will be spared.

Angono offers a lot of possible side trips after the parade, the Angono Petroglyphs is good place to visit, there’s Balaw-Balaw Restaurant (in case nobody offers you a free meal), & being the birthplace of famous Pinoy painters like Botong Francisco et. al, the art galleries must be in a must place to visit.

I hope I’ll be free & in tip-top shape on that day.