ORDINARY BUT BEAUTIFUL
ORDINARY BUT BEAUTIFUL
I was tired beating deadlines for my paper and television
report. I was also under pressure by a politician who wanted to publish his
statement or anything that he uttered as it is without considering the powers
of gatekeepers. So I decided to keep off from my usual tasks.
Got my video-camera, went out just outside my house
searching for extra ordinary subjects either for video or still shots.
My son Kenjo enjoys cycling as our pet dog Kokey is
pursuing him around. My two other nephews climbing our guava tree as its
branches are heavy with fruits. Kenjo
wants to climb too but I forbid him so he decided to go to my mother’s mango
tree where its small branches are also loaded with fruits.
I took some shots of them until I saw a black bee, as if
trying to tell me to get away from his way, so I decided to move back.
I discovered that this black bee is building some sort of
hive at our window.
It’s a good video footage for me where a bee is working his
way in a circular motion creating a wonderful hive.
Bugs do create perfect circle. If Kenjo finds out bugs
make better and perfect circle he will surely compare my work with the bugs.
One time I recalled that Kenjo requested me to produce different shapes for his
assignment but ended up arguing about perfect circle. So what he did was to use
a coin to show how circle looks like.
Anyway, after taking footage of the bug I move around for
another subject to capture and ended up taking photos of all the sparrows
hovering our Indian and guava trees.
Buying out my time, I asked my son to accompany me around
our backyard so I can also teach him how to capture certain images.
We went first to my mother’s storage area, actually its
an unfinished small house and I discovered a unique flowering shrub.
I remember my sister in law brought a soft shrubby plant
from Lamitan and she told me its blooms are more like a rose.
She’s right I thought it was a rose in a wrong shrub. It’s
orange but very beautiful. The shrub itself is like Alugbati a watery soft type
but also thorny.
A good video footage and still photos made my day quite
better.
At the end of the day as I was uploading all the files to
my computer I realized that all I have encountered everyday as very ordinary
came out as one of the most beautiful images I got.
