KLM On Assignment: BARCELONA

Barcelona, one of my dream destination. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Here's my pitch for DPP and KLM's ON Assignment Contest. Hoping this will make it to the second round, shoot out. The link below is my official entry in DPP KLM's official forum. If you don't mind me asking, please click the link and leave a comment on my entry. 

My Official Entry Here

“Capturing moments by freezing time”. This will always be my inspiration for my passion which is Photography and I will bring this to Spain if ever I will be given a chance to travel there. I have all the necessary tools to do this and one of this is my camera. 

I'm Alan G. Echano. A Civil Engineer, an Entrepreneur and Photography as my passion. 

Ricky Ladia is my friend and he became my mentor in photography who molded me into a photographer that I am today. So, upon seeing it in his timeline in facebook that Digital Photographer Philippines and KLM were in search of a photographer who will accompany him to Barcelona, Spain, I get excited and I immediately look at the contest mechanics. I said to myself that I want this so bad. So bad, that there are times that I can’t even sleep thinking about this because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. 

I love to travel. Me and my wife use to travel a lot before she got pregnant. But to travel with your passion, not thinking and worrying about anything else except to shoot and take photos, will be an awesome experience in Spain. I can shoot different genres of photography. Name it, travel, food, product, streets, portraiture, landscapes/cityscapes etc. I’m so flexible. You can leave me anywhere and I’ll be fine and I will try to give you the best photos that I can get. Spain is very rich in culture. Food, religion, architecture, environment and the people living there. It’s a dream place of destination for me. There’s a lot of story to tell. Give me the opportunity and I will show everyone and make them feel that they are also traveling with me through the camera and lens that I bring. 

Thank you very much for this opportunity to join this contest. To God be the Glory. 

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ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR

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The Tale of Electric Line Men

(January 14, 2014 Blog from Weebly)

It's been a while since my last blog. Almost 2 years. It's also my first time to write about Street Photography. It was brownout early in the morning of January 13, 2014. I went out and as I look outside our house, I saw these electrical linemen doing some repairs and relocation of wires from an old post to a new post. I went back and immediately grab my camera. Didn't change the lens that was mounted in my cam knowing that time is crucial in getting the moment that you want to get from this scene. With my Nikon 105 Macro Lens mounted in this cam, I patiently took photos of these men working. But upon realizing that the relocation of wires will take long, I changed my 105 to tele-zoom lens. Below are the three photos that I took. 

After I took some photos, I went at the Kidapawan City proper to withdraw and when I came back, they are still there. This time I had my Nikon Coolpix P300. I always had this wherever I go because it's small and handy. I stopped before I went home and took one shot at them with the one riding a motorcycle. When I was home, I went out again to see if I can still add more photos and get a good composition. I saw the other lineman separated from others. When I saw the yellow hard hat and red shirt peeking on the leaves, I immediately grab again my cam and took a photo of it. I went back at our house and after few minutes, I saw the guy with the red shirt transferred at the electric post near us. I recompose again and took a snap of it. That was the last photo below and the black part of the photo was our canopy in front of our house. When they finished their work at around 12 noon and after some time, electricity came back. Its time for me to go to work and do some errands.