Birmingham-based travel photographer. https://byjacklloyd.co.uk/ 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z https://byjacklloyd.co.uk/blog/three-weeks-in-the-philippines/ 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z <p>This entire page is the file you are looking at. No dashboard, no login, no Squarespace editor. You wrote some words; the site turned them into a finished page in the design we built. That is the whole blog system.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2>What the trip taught me</h2> <p>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.</p> <blockquote> <p>I wasn't documenting a trip. I was just present, and the camera happened to be there too.</p> </blockquote> <p>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.</p>