A glimpse of the Viewfinder articles from not so long ago.
September 2006. The Viewfinder presents the winners of the August contest for Black and White Landscape. Eric Quiason won both the Photographer and Photo of the Month awards besting the other 75 entries. Raffy Santos leads the On The Spot competition with a total score of 18.4790. This means that by that time, the club […]
July, 1997. Contest theme was ‘Red’ won by Raul Montifar who’s photo is featured above – a light painting of a deep blue mangkok and dancing red smoke. Tony Lilles and Emil Davocol won second and third photo awards respectively. OTS was held at Luneta with theme ‘Rizal Park’. Raul Montifar again won this contest […]
Thirteen years ago this month of June, Chito Madrono’s winning photo for the theme ‘Relationships’ was featured. It was his first win in the Black and White category since joining the club nine years prior this date. Only 28 members participated in the contest that month. Passing rate was 52%. Amado A. Castro wrote an […]
Twelve years ago this month, Emil Davocol’s winning photo was featured on the viewfinder for the theme ‘Blue’. It was shot using a Nikon F90 with a Nikkor 24-70mm lens. Kiko Balagtas, who was then the current CCP President, won the Photographer of the Month title. He also leads the Kodak Cup competition. Krista Ranillo […]
Fifteen years ago this month April, Eric Cachero’s winning entry for the theme ‘Boat/s’ is featured. He placed fifth overall in the contest. Member Bong Malabanan was Photographer of the Month. Raul Montifar was leading the Kodak Cup (which he eventually won that year of 1997) Viewfinder was only a one page publication.
Each time I go to my cardiologist for my regular visit, no fail would he ask me about my exercises. On occasions, I told him that I have been negligent, he would show his disappointment. My last visit was different, however. I was so eager, and I did tell him about the more than four […]
The Simple and the Sublime It’s been done. Finally! And without controversy. The last (and certainly not the least exciting) monthly competition is over. Talk about saving the best for last. The theme for this month’s competition has had a lot of members holding their breath all year. For some that have sat in the […]
This contest month of August 2011, the theme is ‘Human Form’ in black and white. Call it coincidence but 16 years ago of the same month, the featured article was on Master Photographer Emil Davocol winning their similar theme ‘Bodyscapes’. How different would be the photos then compared to today’s entries? We will have to […]
As August is the Anniversary month, this is the Anniversary Party invitation as posted in the Viewfinder, August 1986. Illustration was done by Emil Davocol.
DE LEON AND RIVERA WIN “FILIPINIANA” TITLES It was a relatively “bloody” night and there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth. 27 out of a total of 70 entries failed to make “passing” grade; in other words, only 60% of the entries made it. While such a low percentage was not unusual in past […]
The second on-the-spot contest for 1982 was held in the City of Pines during the weekend of March 6 and 7. Club Secretariat was set up at rustic Vallejo Hotel. Earliest bird we know was Niding Maloles who arrived as early as Wednesday. Last recorded arrival was the older (?) member of the Father-and-Son team […]
Eighteen (18) years ago today, Rudy de Leon was up on a good start. Not only did he bag the Photograph of the Month title for this February meet, he also won the title Photographer of the Month, for two consecutive months. For this competition themed ‘Still Life’, the master’s winning photo was an abstract […]
November ends the years’ photo competition as the Photo of the Year judging concludes. This year, our runaway winner E. Billy Mondonedo sits comfortably as he awaits to be crowned 2010 Mastercup Champion next month, leading the pack with more than 4 points. Not even a sweep of all the remaining CP and OTS photos […]
Date: October 1993 – exactly seventeen (17) years ago this October 2010. Headline story was ‘Ernie Fajardo: Addition and Abstraction!‘ written by Tony Lilles. Back then, submissions were done to the Club Secretariat, deadline was 1PM and slides were used for the OTS competition. Funny though how members like today still end up picking entries […]