Above,
you are looking at either a sunrise or a sunset, depending on your mood.
Actually, they are the same photograph that I took probably in 2017; it’s the
same photograph from my Lumix FZ100, but viewed in 2 separate monitors – the
left on the monitor of my Lenovo laptop, the right on the bigger monitor ViewSonic
20-inch LED.
I love taking photographs, among other things. I love
writing, rewriting, editing, re-editing. I love desktop publishing (DTP), DTP
being the one you do before you print your magazine or book.
You have to love what you’re doing to be doing great!
How do you do a wonderful coffee-table book for your group
or office? You start with a wonder-promising script! That is to say, you start
with someone who has been writing for years and years – or someone who shows
promise.
How do you write a coffee-table book? First, you have to
know the background story of the office and of the officers. Then how the
office came to be what it is now. As much as possible, look for the exciting
part of the story and begin the book from there!
I bought that Lumix FZ100 from the cash advance I got from
the Agricultural Credit & Policy
Council (ACPC). I’m talking of early 2012. I started collecting
photographs from the field on the many successful loan projects of the ACPC, to produce its 25th
anniversary coffee-table book titled “The
Filipino Farmer Is Bankable” – 150 pages, each reading page with a
photograph. To collect more images, I travelled to Northern Luzon, mid-Visayas
(I cancelled Mindanao at the last minute). Now then, about half of the images
came from my FZ100.
A
silver book for a silver anniversary, I dare say!
Where did I get my photo perspectives? In 1967-68, when I
taught at Xavier University College of Agriculture in Cagayan De Oro City, I frequented
the Xavier library, and studied the paintings of the masters: wide angles, cropping,
lighting, highlighting etcetera. I probably was the first-ever photographer anywhere
to report that I learned my photography much from paintings!
January
to March 2012, I was on a journey to collect information, ideas and images to
put into the inspirational coffee-table book that I produced for the ACPC,
having been engaged by its Executive Director Ms Jovita Corpuz to produce the volume for the silver
anniversary celebration of the ACPC in April. I had only 3 months to produce
that book. With my decades of writing experience in science, and with that Lumix
camera, I delivered!
I
don’t remember being so happy doing a project for somebody else whom I met for
the first time. (See also my essay, “The Old Man And The C. Or, How To Produce
A Coffee-Table Book In 8 Weeks,” (27 April 2012, Frank A Hilario, blogspot.com). When you are happy doing,
you do great work!@517
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