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Jai alai tournament slideshow

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Jai Alai tournament

A pelotari serving during a jai alai tournament

This was my assignment in the Advance News Photography course in ACFJ dealing with sports. Fortunately, when we had this one, the Manila Amateur Jai Alai Association had their yearend tournament. As posted before, I am documenting this unique sport as part of my course project. With permission from Alex Singca, association president and the one I interviewed here, I was able to cover the tournament for two days just before I flew to Cebu. This is a work in progress and if you might notice, I still have a lot to learn in assembling a multimedia slideshow. This is just a start.

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Setting my sights on Barangay Tatalon, QC

Friday, December 19th, 2008

What originally planned as a piece related to the Reproductive Health bill, to give my own voice on the issue, transpired to be a big project that I envisioned to be for my diploma course in ACFJ. Initially inspired by the The Places We Live website, I’m looking at presenting it in multimedia and will focus on a particular depressed barangay in Metro Manila.

My classmate Faye referred me to Akbayan and from there, I got in touch with an officer and was pointed to Matinik, an urban poor women’s group in Barangay Tatalon, Quezon City. From the ocular survey I did this week, it holds much promise.

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An afternoon with pelotaris

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Ben Gingone, serves the pelota during practice sessions at a local cancha

Ben Gingone serves the pelota during practice sessions at a local cancha

It was a fun afternoon as I spent time with pelotaris at the local cancha in Quezon City. Jai alai, the Basque game, have fascinated me ever since I saw an amateur player motoring with his cesta behind his back in Cebu. Gotten curious, I followed him to the run down cancha or fronton where he and the rest of amateur players were practicing.

I’m not new to this sport but, like most Cebuanos, I grew up associating it with the illegal game of masiao. The first time I saw this being played in March this year I was instantly hooked. The pelota or rubber ball zooming at speeds of more than 200 miles an hour while a pelotari tries to catch it and spring it back to the frontis is really spectacular! No wonder, they call this the game of a thousand thrills.

The sport, once a very popular game and now relegated in the background because of it’s checkered history in the country, is being kept alive by former professionals and amateurs who have been playing for the love of it. This, and my fascination prompted me to propose this as one of my final projects in ACFJ.

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My proposal is taking shape

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

It’s crunch time as I will need to submit my proposal of photo projects today. Frankly, it becomes nerve wracking as I need to weigh in and put into substance the various topics and themes that have been floating in my grey matter for the past few weeks. There are lots of doable and interesting work to do but then, you have to see if one is better than the other. The process of elimination to come up with the final project is really daunting!

Suddenly, this afternoon, as I was putting finishing touches to the proposal forms, something triggered in my memory and I just remembered this Magnum weblink that really blew me away because of its sophistication and cutting edge quality in it. This had me thinking deep, pondering and finally deciding that this type would be the perfect work for me.

I can manage it. I can learn how to do it.

To be continued… :-)

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