August 2008 Archives
Bantayan Island, Philippines: LittleFish's son Kalle photographed at Mama Helen's, 3:10pm
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/40s f/3.3 at 42.0mm iso100
I had my camera this day, as Mama Helen was feeding her grandkids at their beach shack while LittleFish was off selling gasoline to passing vehicles at the roadside for some income.
Kalle & the Family are used to me being there as they go about their daily business, and Kalle loves when I take his picture, although he only noticed me here for a moment before he went back to eating his rice.
Over the past few days I've been trying to text LittleFish and the Family - asking them how far Papa David has gotten in making arrangements to begin repairs on their shack that was destroyed by Typhoon Fengsheng in late June 2008, and also as I have $50USD to send them that was donated by a friend here and I wanted to make her aware of that, and only heard from her last night via a text on my Philippine mobile phone; the entire text is quoted verbatim below:
"Gud morning kuya, ds s littlefish.
kuya we dont have a house @ mama helens, also me no house kuya we stay in the school kuya, we dont have rice to eat"
"kuya" means "brother" or "big brother" and LittleFish is telling me that the Family is still housed & sleeping in the small local school, so I'm not optimistic about any chance their squatters shack is going to be rebuilt in the near future.
LittleFish and her son Kalle are photographed recently in the July 9, 2008 post.
Please email me if you are able to help, as I think this is an issue this Family will have to be dealing with for the remainder of this year and into 2009.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/40s f/3.3 at 42.0mm iso100
I had my camera this day, as Mama Helen was feeding her grandkids at their beach shack while LittleFish was off selling gasoline to passing vehicles at the roadside for some income.
Kalle & the Family are used to me being there as they go about their daily business, and Kalle loves when I take his picture, although he only noticed me here for a moment before he went back to eating his rice.
Over the past few days I've been trying to text LittleFish and the Family - asking them how far Papa David has gotten in making arrangements to begin repairs on their shack that was destroyed by Typhoon Fengsheng in late June 2008, and also as I have $50USD to send them that was donated by a friend here and I wanted to make her aware of that, and only heard from her last night via a text on my Philippine mobile phone; the entire text is quoted verbatim below:
"Gud morning kuya, ds s littlefish.
kuya we dont have a house @ mama helens, also me no house kuya we stay in the school kuya, we dont have rice to eat"
"kuya" means "brother" or "big brother" and LittleFish is telling me that the Family is still housed & sleeping in the small local school, so I'm not optimistic about any chance their squatters shack is going to be rebuilt in the near future.
LittleFish and her son Kalle are photographed recently in the July 9, 2008 post.
Please email me if you are able to help, as I think this is an issue this Family will have to be dealing with for the remainder of this year and into 2009.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Bantayan Island, Philippines: Papa David & Family photographed outside their home at 6:23pm
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/250s f/2.8 at 14.0mm iso400
Papa David in the green shirt & Mama Helen in the blue shirt sit with a nephew outside their shack that was later destroyed by Typhoon Fengsheng in June 2008, and it's a recent Feb. 2008 photograph that illustrates the type of squatters dwelling they built for their Family.
Papa David had just finished building a small addition to the Family home, the small room where the three t-shirts are hanging in back of their nephew Tony who's sitting in the blue swim trunks.
To illustrate the damage their home suffered during the December 2006 Typhoon that tore off their roof yet left the foundation & walls standing, the images below remind us just how fragile these types of dwellings are - even when in the Visayas, an area officially outside the Philippines Typhoon belt in Luzon.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Mama Helen surveys Typhoon damage to her home, photographed Dec.10, 2006 at 8:34am
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/800s f/3.5 at 54.0mm iso200
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/200s f/3.5 at 14.0mm iso200
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/250s f/2.8 at 14.0mm iso400
Papa David in the green shirt & Mama Helen in the blue shirt sit with a nephew outside their shack that was later destroyed by Typhoon Fengsheng in June 2008, and it's a recent Feb. 2008 photograph that illustrates the type of squatters dwelling they built for their Family.
Papa David had just finished building a small addition to the Family home, the small room where the three t-shirts are hanging in back of their nephew Tony who's sitting in the blue swim trunks.
To illustrate the damage their home suffered during the December 2006 Typhoon that tore off their roof yet left the foundation & walls standing, the images below remind us just how fragile these types of dwellings are - even when in the Visayas, an area officially outside the Philippines Typhoon belt in Luzon.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Mama Helen surveys Typhoon damage to her home, photographed Dec.10, 2006 at 8:34am
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/800s f/3.5 at 54.0mm iso200
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/200s f/3.5 at 14.0mm iso200
