"Tricycles" on Bohol Island, #1

9 years ago, ripples in a shady pond in Tukwila WA, and window reflections shadows in downtown Seattle

I'm not a people picture taker. I'm more comfortable taking photos of trees. Sometimes though, when I'm on a bus or in a taxi, I just hold my cell phone up to the window and Click away...

We visited the Cebu Taoist Temple yesterday, it being the Chinese New Year. I especially liked the meticulously painted dragons, and a few chickens, when I was able to navigate around all of the selfie picture takers. Oh well :)

En route to Mantayupan Falls in Barilli, we stpped at a small public beach outside of Moalboal...

Mantayupan Falls in Barilli Cebu #1, last week

I don't think about religious connotations that much when I'm taking photos in churches. Colors, lines, textures, etc are what interest me. The candles here, with their sort of Blah colors, were fascinating. I liked the flames still going on some of them, the drooping columns of candles that had shorter lives, and the tiny rivers of colored wax that flowed down to collect in the bottom trays. It's a bit of a leap, but the bottom trays reminded me of walking across some frozen-in-time lava flows of Hawaii's Kilauea volcanoe. I was with my brother Mike in the late 80s, and we were in Hawaii the day that the small town of Kalapana was cut off forever by the latest eruption. Kalapana was famous for it's black sand beaches.

an interesting mix of photos from a walk in Bothell WA 3 years ago, 6Feb2021

Mama Mary #1 - The "Miraculous Castle Church of Mama Mary" in Simala is huge, and it has an amazing variety of religious statuary, castle/church architecture, beautiful gardens and flowers. A lot of visitors were checking out Mama Mary that day and I had many options for taking photos. What fascinated me most was that many of those people were just taking pictures of themselves.