Check out some BW pictures I shot using a Horizon Perfekt camera. (posting the wedding pics with the kindest permission from Dino Lara). The camera shoots a 170 degree field of view with little distortion (unlike a fisheye).
The future, after all, is wide 
It’s not everyday that one of the bands who wrote half the soundtrack of your life flies in and performs in our teensy part of the world.
This time shopping was the gravy, it was Mr. Smith we flew in for.
With his amazing guitar prowess and vocal range faithful to the albums, you woudn’t think the guy was pushing 50.
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Twenty-two days and fourteen rolls after, I’m still high on Lomo.
As with all passions, I came into it head-on, devouring everything I could read about it, joining it’s premiere local community - lomomanila, savoring the pictures graciously shared online and learning as much as possible from the pioneers (thanks Jill).
The attraction for Lomo stemmed perhaps from how lomographs looked - super saturated, vignetted, off-kilter colors and blurs. The exact characteristics of the videos that we make. The coincidence was uncanny yet not surprising.
But reading more about lomography, you learn that it’s not all “style”. It’s not even strictly the cameras.
You realize it’s more of a lifestyle, an attitude. To shoot without boundaries, without being constrained with the traditional rules of photography (though no question, lomography IS photography), to be spontaneous in shooting, to not think at all.
BS? Maybe. Fun. No doubt.
Here’s a wedding entirely shot with a Lomo Kompakt Automat+. Chris and Cho.
The point being there is no point. Why? Because I wanted to and I could.
Further reading:
lomomanila (the shiznit Pinoy Lomo Forum)
lomography (official site)
a dissident’s point of view
Thanks to the wonderfully helpful people at lomomanila, I was good to go in no time snapping lomo-style.
A view of Mt. Malarayat Golf and Country Club…
A surprisingly docile Jakob in Makati Med…
Candle offerings in the Parish church of Sto. Tomas, Batangas…
More about this fascinating way of taking pictures later.
They didn’t let me wear a thong. That’s something to be thankful for.
But pick up the July 2007 issue and get ready for a pleasant surprise.
It’s easy to read - more pictures than words. 
Jason Magbanua is a wedding videographer
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