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The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial is located in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations.
A Jewish American military service member lies in a field of green alongside his Christian American brothers in arms. The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial is located in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations.
A typical fish market that's part of an overall wet market in the port city of Legazpi, Philippines.
Panorama perspective composite of 4 images taken up close of the Manila Cathedral. Duotone tint added for effect.
Six elderly Filipino men share a bench in Baguio's City Center chit chatting and passing the day people watching.
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Looking out the entrance of a Jeepney passenger transport vehicle at another jeepney stuck in traffic in Manila, Philippines.
Digital photo converted to an illustrative look. It was taken in Legazpi, the Philippines of a dog lying in a street in the shade of a motorbike canopy. The temperature was hovering around 39C in the sun.
2nd in series of photos of the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial located in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations.
Street Scene in Legazpi, Philippines outside Zandre's Pawnshop. For many city residents, pawnshops are often used to get cash for valuables when a family member needs medical treatment, or sometimes, putting food on the table.
A small handmade outrigger boat contrasts with a small freighter vessel off shore from the city of Legazpi, Philippines. Small outriggers are usually paddle boats with small motors used to get people short distances between one side of the bay or between islands and for fishing.
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Snacks are displayed over a sidewalk like a cloud of junk food as to entice customers to buy from this sari-sari (convenient store) in Legazpi, Philippines.
A family uses a kalesa (also caritela/karitela), a horse-drawn calash, to get to their destination opposed to using a motorized transport. Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
It takes all the young men and women from the village in Padgudpud, Philippines, working as a team, to haul in a long net full of small tuna late in the afternoon.
Selective color image of a converted to Black and White digital photo taken in Legazpi, Philippines while walking the streets near a wet market.
Small fish from the Class: Actinopterygii are presented on a bright red cloth for sale by a fish vendor at a wet market in Legazpi, Philippines.
A gesture of friendship from a complete stranger. A street portrait of a friendly tricycle driver waving to me in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Tricycle drivers line the streets in the late afternoon in Laoag, Philippines. The tricycle is the main means of human transport in the provinces within the Philippines.
The sun behind a tamarind tree planted among the grave markers at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. The second to the last in my series for Memorial Day weekend 2016.
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial is located in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations.
A father and daughter sit on their motorbike at the side of a fruit stand in Legazpi, Philippines, enjoying some fresh fruit in the shade.
The lead fisherman from Pagudpud, a small rural village in the northernmost part of the Philippines, surveys the water for small tuna while smoking a cigarette.
Members of a fishing village in Pagudpud, Philippines untangle and prepare their fishing nets for the late evening fishing offshore to catch small tuna.
A Madonna and child statue and a large glass jar for donation money is on display inside a free botanical garden in Vigan, Philippines.
A tricycle driver and his son inside the cab of their family's income-generator. Legaspi City, Bicol, Philippines.
9th in the Memorial Day Series.
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial are located in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations.
Once the catch is divided up, one bucket of fish is set aside and an adult cuts and chops the fish into thirds on a boat oar that doubles as a cutting board. A piece of fish is handed to each child to do with as they want. They usually take it home where it is made into a sinagang, (Filipino soup). The head is considered the prized part of the fish by the children, and they hope they are given that. (Can you see my shadow with the camera held above my head to get this angle) ;-)
A woman sleeps on a park bench in the city center of Bacolod in the Visayas Region of the Philippines. A stray cat shares the cement bench that serves as a bed for both of them.
A man and woman park their motorbike alongside a rural road in Pagudpud, the Philippines to fill up water containers and clean their eating utensils from a runoff tapped from a mountain stream that trickles along the side of the road.
Poor families who have elderly members to care for sometimes place them in front of churches to beg for money during the day There is very little government assistance in the Philippines to aid the poor and elderly, so this is one way of trying to generate income to support the needs of their aged relatives.
A Filipino boy living in Legazpi, Philippines watches over his mother's broom business inside a building that serves as a shelter for the local wet market. These beautiful handmade brooms are very functional. The dark brown ones are used on streets and sidewalks to move large items of trash while the delicate yellow ones are used in the house to sweep floors. The materials are made from natural grasses and branches in the local environment or grown on farms.
An elderly Filipino man from Legazpi, the Philippines in Bicol sells repaired, used shoes on the sidewalk. Informal street portraiture.
Come on give this picture a Title. Keep it clean, though.
This pic was taken at 5:26PM, so I used the sun as an accent light and the SB-900 as the key. No Gels or anything on the SB-900, just handheld by my son out of the frame, camera right and held lengthwise.
Triggered by Nikon CLS, Camera set to Auto FP 1/250.
A friend asked if the background was real. What do you think?
5th in series of photos of the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial located in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley. With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations. See a 3 minute slide show of the images put to music at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAacBz4eMk
Informal, backlit, existing light street shot of a young, Filipino boy (batang babae), sitting on a seawall in Legazpi, Philippines.
The journey between connecting to the MRT lines and the LRT lines in Pasay, Manila, is a maze full of people competing for limited space both in the trains and moving between stations.
This is an example of the kinds of meat markets many of us in the west never experienced. Our prepared meats come nicely cut and packaged in styrofoam and plastic, but what about the rest of the animal's parts?
Pigs heads, legs, and meats are hung on hooks at a vendor's stall in a wet market in Legazpi, Philippines. The vendor gave me a good-natured, intense, funny-face look that added to the mood of the subject matter. lol
Grandparents and their Grandchildren share an afternoon outside their family run business sharing information on their social media devices. Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
The ubiquitous Jollibee, part of the Jollibee Foods Corporation is a Filipino multinational chain of fast food restaurants headquartered in Pasig, Philippines
Street Scene and informal street portrait of a young man sitting next to the items he is selling on the sidewalk in Legazpi, Philippines.
A young couple share a quiet moment together on a stairwell at the Mall of Asia, Pasay, Manila, Philippines.
Four Filipino men paint a corregated metal room of an eight-story building in Malate, Philippines, wearing sandals and with only one rope for safety.
The first station on the MRT line in Manila is the only station where one can get a seat, and it's a mad rush to get through the door and grab one.
A group of Filipinas sort through buckets of fresh picked Manila Mangoes With its golden color that signifies richness and a heart shape that symbolizes a very important part like in human anatomy made Manila mango to be the national fruit of the country. Mango has been known too as the “Fruit of the Gods”. The Manila mango has a yellow-orange skin and more slender compared to other large mango varieties.