Free registration for Pamulinawen Photo Experience

The City Government of Laoag and The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS), Inc. are inviting all photography enthusiasts from Ilocos Norte and other places to join the PAMULINAWEN PHOTO EXPERIENCE.

There will be a free seminar-workshop in the morning session of February 10, 2012 at the Laoag SP Session Hall and a festival photo shoot in the afternoon session during the street pageantry at Rizal Street.

Participants will have the chance to exhibit and enter their photos for the contest top 3 best pamulinawen photos. Certificate of completion, IDs or access pass to the festival site and trophies for the winners will be given out.

Limited slots only, so hurry sign up now! For further details and free registration please contact TIPS PRO Alaric Yanos at alaricxyz@yahoo.com or 09175682416 and TIPS President Dr. Edwin Antonio at antonioedwin@gmail.com or 09179189762.

TIPS veep’s photo on Lonely Planet

The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS) vice president Bryan Rapadas has been consistently covering festivals and events in Ilocandia and in out of town. He showcases his wonderful shots on his flickr site andreceives very positive response from the viewing public.

This time, one of his photos landed on the prestigious pages of the magazine Lonely Planet Philippines issue 8. His work depicted the Ati-atihan Festival of Kalibo Aklan. It is considered as the mother of all festivals in the country for it existed for the longest time.

His photo was taken in January 2011 when he, together with his colleagues from TIPS, covered the said exciting festival event in the Visayas region.

Another work by him has appeared on the Digital Photographer-UK magazine issue 115. He has covered the Masskara Festival of Bacolod City in Negros Oriental on October 2010. One of his colorful photos was published on the said magazine.

TIPS prexy receives a National Award

The alumni association for the Japanese cultural exchange program called Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program (SSEAYP) International Philippines (SIP), Inc., held its ceremony for SIP National Awards on November 12, 2011 during the Reunion on Board the Fuji Maru at Pier 13, Port of Manila. The said awards aims to recognize alumni members who make exemplary contributions to society.

One of the alumni is no less than Dr. Edwin V. Antonio, president of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS). For his active membership to arts and cultural organizations and his outreach project made him bag the award Excellence in Arts and Culture.

The awards committee made the following citation:

”SSEAYP National Awardee for Arts and Culture

DR. EDWIN V. ANTONIO
Batch 2002

... “ To share my experiences in life, to help others hone their talents, to impart knowledge and art skills in visual arts to the less fortunate and to the young minds and to preserve, develop, promote culture through my blog and my work at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)”

Our Awardee is the Secretary, Executive Council (Execon) National Committee on Northern Cultural Communities, Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts (SCCTA), NCCA until Dec 2013. Their activities include among others Capability Building Seminars/Policy Making for the Cultural Communities/Participation in Indigenous Peoples events and activities. In this area, he has tapped blogging as a new media to reach more people in promoting the culture of Ilocandia. He is a cultural & travel blogger in the site www.ilocandiatreasures.com.

He is also the VICE-PRESIDENT, TAWID CULTURAL TROUPE – Ilocano cultural organization and presently, he is the PRESIDENT, THE ILOCANDIA PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (TIPS), INC. It will warm your heart to know that the awardee is also the proponent and founder of KIDS ON PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHY - a project that teaches cultural photography to kids in the orphanages.”

The award was handed in by SIP Board Chairman Yvette Ledesma and President Greg Alcera. Dr Antonio is so grateful and honored to receive the award and he dedicates it to his associations. It’s a validation of his efforts to promote the Philippine culture especially indigenous arts and culture.

TIPS officer wins Canon Photo Marathon

Canon Marketing Philippines held its annual event last year called Canon PhotoMarathon in the different regions of the country. One of them was in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur for the Northern Luzon group held on September 10, 2011.

Canon has the vision of building the Philippines as a country of ImageNation citizens. This photomarathon is a one-day photo contest that tests the skills and creativity of the participants. It started in 2006 with increasing number of participants per year. In Northern Luzon area alone, there were around 200 participants. One of them was the representative of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS).

Joseph Andie Lamug, board director of TIPS represented his organization in the said event under the DSLR category. They were given themes to interpret with two and half hours to tackle and find the best shot of these challenges.

He depicted in his work the pottery in Vigan City and it came out to be the best one in the photomarathon. Joseph took home the bacon. He won the grand prize in the DSLR category and took home a brand new Canon EOS 600D, Tripod, Loot Bag with SD cards, bag, etc. as prizes. He was so happy to win in the said photomarathon, "I almost missed joining this because of my work", he relates.

A Christmas Get Together

As a thanksgiving for a wonderful year of 2011, the officers and members of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS), Inc. had a Christmas get together at Papa Paus Diner on December 19, 2011.

Present during the occasion were President Dr Edwin Antonio, Vice-President Bryan Rapadas, Treasurer Dr Robert Luzod, PRO Alaric Yanos, Board Directors Dr Jose Orosa and Michael Ong with members Raffy Pasalo, Landell Galiza and James Ragus.

The group had dinner and exchange of pleasantries. They had discussion of the activities to be undertaken in the year to come. The group came up with some ideas and hoping to achieve these.