These two pictures show the athletic oval and the Main Building of Rizal High School, Pasig City, Metro Manila.
In the 1990’s the Guinness Book of World Records credited the school as the largest high school in the world, with its enrollment reaching a high of 26,000 students at one point in time.
I took the sepia-toned picture in 1995 and the colored picture in 1996. If you are a beginning photographer wondering how you can get great cloud shots, you can simply fit a filter (polarizing or graduated) on the lens of your single lens reflex camera.
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the airI don't know about you but for me, sepia-toned or black and white pictures can evoke nostalgia better than colored pictures. Posted below are some quotations about nostalgia:
And feather canyons everywhere, I’ve looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall.
I really don’t know clouds at all.
Owens Lee Pomeroy: “Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!”
Author Unknown: “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.”
Bill Vaughn: It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.
Florence King: “True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.”
Lou Reed: “I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.”
Ted Koppel: “It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.”
Doug Larson: “Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.”
Will Rogers: “Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.”
2 comments:
Rodge,
You’re probably a Class ‘68 or ‘69 graduate of Rizal High. I am Class ‘73. Class ’69 is the batch of Celso Santos (valedictorian), if I remember correctly.
You have permission to use these pictures purely on a non-commercial basis. When you use these pictures in any way, the proper credit must be visibly and expressly stated as follows: Picture by Atty. Gerry T. Galacio, www.familymatters.org.ph and www.betterenglish.org.ph (used with permission).
If you want to see more pictures of Rizal High, please surf to my other blog www.campusconnection.blogspot.com
When you copy the pictures, do not just right click the pictures. You will just get the pictures with the dimensions as they appear on the blog. What you should do to get a larger-sized picture is to (1) left click the picture to get the picture in its original dimensions; and then (2) right click the picture to “save as.”
P.S. Are you a member of the RHS Alumni Association of North America? If yes, please say hello for me to Mr. Mario T. Ramos. founding president of the alumni association.
Rodge,
Please surf to my Campus Connection blog and look at the sidebar for the posts titled "Photojournalism (8): Color or black and white?" There you will find the same pictures of RHS Main Building (one is color, the other is black and white, not sepia). Again, left click first and then right click.
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