Three weeks in the Philippines

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A family trip. My son meeting his Filipino family for the first time, my dad's 60th, all of us together somewhere new to most of us. I had my camera with me the whole time and, for once, I wasn't trying to make a project out of it. I was just there, and the photographs happened around that.

What the trip taught me

Some of the best frames came from the days I almost left the camera in the bag. There's probably a lesson in that, though I'm still working out exactly what it is.

I wasn't documenting a trip. I was just present, and the camera happened to be there too.

More of these to come. They'll all be exactly this easy to write — which, after years of fighting a website builder, still feels slightly unreasonable.