Panorama

The Philippines is a country with beautiful oceans, vast bright green expanses of rice paddys, and gorgeous mountain ranges, jagged peaks of adolescent volcanic rock poke out of many inland spaces, covered with a turf of banana and coconut trees on the gently rolling areas, and huge seldom-harvested groves of Narra, Jimalina, and Avocado in the upland areas. All of the wild jungle areas are thick with Balukawi Vines and unforgiving nettles in between the huge trees. These ecocsystems are beautiful by themselves, but when taken in with the entire panorama, when viewed together in one, they present a staggering combination of different forms of beauty. All at once, you can see vast soft waters on the horizon, steep forested mountains in the background, and verdant green flats carved with sweat and blood over centuries at the fore.


I’m still in my photo stitching infancy, but have started to try and capture some of the beauty of these combinations of landscapes here in Babatngon, Leyte, Philippines.

 This is the view from the guardhouse and fish cage project looking back on the town of Babatngon, and mountains in the background.  Every day it is a beautiful sight, on cloudy days, the myst gives the mountains a mistique, and on clear days, it really is a great view.

This is the view from the side of a road in a neighboring village of Babatngon, called Pagsulhugon.

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A gorgeous rice field I wanted to capture one day as I walked by.  I can't seem to get this picture to do it justice, but take my word for it, it's really nice.