Paoay Lake in Infrared: An art photograph on canvas sold

An art photograph on canvas entitled “Paoay Lake in infrared” by Lorna Tolentino-Macatulad was purchased by no less than the Honorable Bonifacio C. Clemente, mayor of the municipality of Paoay. He was fascinated by the photos exhibited by the members of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS) during the Rubuatan Exhibit. However, he had been mainly attracted to the Paoay Lake photograph. He personally bought this art photo to adorn his home.

Paoay Lake is a legendary lake. It is one of the prominent features of Paoay town. Legend says that the lake area was a sunken village and when fishermen go into the deep they see shadows of houses. It was also told that the fish they catch, believed to be inhabitants of the ill-fated village, were adorned with jewels. On its shores is a monumental building called Malacanang ti Amianan built during the Marcos regime.

The said photograph was shot in an IR form on December 2010 by Lorna Macatulad. They were then on a pre-nuptial pictorial when this beautiful sight of Paoay Lake with the element of fisherman on the scene captivated her hence, she clicked her shutter button.

TIPS adopts Pecha Kucha

On the very first general assembly meeting of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS) on its year 3, a pecha kucha was conducted among the members of the group.

Pecha kucha is a presentation methodology to organize the presentation order of an event. An example of event was the Pecha Kucha Night. This was devised in 2003 in Roponggi Tokyo. It was an architectural design presentation where a dozen presenters got to do a talk with a 20 slides by 20 seconds. It takes a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds per presentation.

This event was conceived as a venue for young designers to network, meet, show their work, exchange ideas and present their work on a fast paced, concise and entertaining manner.

TIPS has seen this methodology to be effective in presenting their photographic works to the group and thereby will make the presentations short and sweet.

TIPsters Michael Ong, Dr. Robert Luzod, Andie Lamug, Landell Galiza, James Ragus, Joseph Reginaldo, Dr. Edwin Antonio, Godwinn Vicente and Bryan Rapadas.

Most of the pecha kucha presentation mainly delved on the Cuaresma Fotografia and other recent photographs of the TIPS members. The pecha kucha was held at the private function of the La Moda Panciteria in Laoag City.