Batangas Port

Year 2012 when I was granted another vacation from work for 21 days and yet it seems that its not enough.

Take a look at the very improved Batangas port. Last time I was here before 2012 was year 1989. After all of those years it looks like this.

 

this is before you check in

 

 

 

Al Gara Mountain- Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia (Judas Cave)

It was year 2008 when I decided to work in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the purpose of escaping the poverty in my country and taste the bitter sweet life of Overseas Filipino worker. Well, we are a family of OFW, from my uncles to my sisters. You can see us around the globe, from the Europe continent to USA, South America, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was thinking that desert will be a good place to walk and have trek but I was wrong. It takes me a year to locate a good place to spend a short vacation.

Here are some picture of Al-Gara mountains also known as Judas Cave.

 

PANORAMIC VIEW AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN

 

 

ME AT THE TOP WITH SOME PEOPLE AROUND

 

 

JUST CHECK IF I CAN THEN I WENT THROUGH

 

 

TAKEN FROM THE TOP

 

 

 

It was not amazing but it was great. My first time see running water in the middle of the desert where Dates Palm plantation strives with sweetest fruit they can bear. I love the place

 

 

Me and Nature

I love to travel around but not in a busy city or a congested town full of people. I would rather stay long in a forested area with great variety of Flora and Fauna. I have travelled quiet a while to some places and some country but for me the place I can call home is the NATURE.


Since I was a small kid I have this call to photograph nature. I started shooting with my Kodak KB10 camera using 36, 24 or 12 shots film until I got a cellular phone with camera (Nokia N70, Samsung L600 to Samsung L700) then I got my first memory saved digital camera (a very cheap one) and travelled out of the country and got my first Canon 450D with two lenses. Until I was robbed then I change it to 1100D that I have now.


I have joined some guilds to improve my skills in photography until I did Fashion, outdoor, still, glamour, landscape and other. But really I want was to be a nature photographer, so then I did. I travelled to Saudi Arabia and did the first panoramic shoot of Judas Cave (Al-Gara Mountains) in Al- Hasa. Then do further garden shoot, outdoor, parks and even do flying migratory birds shoot (which I lost the time I was robbed)


I am back here in Philippines and I started last 2010 to document my work in my computer. I have travelled to Southern Luzon, MIMAROPA, Central Luzon and one park in NCR. I love to be with animals that graze freely. I love to be under the sun with greens around me. I love the natural music coming from the sound of the breeze accompanied by songs of birds.


The next plan that I have is to join each travel of my youngest brother who is a nature tourist guide and to travel with friends. Soon you will see that I will be here always.


You can visit my photography work from this links below:


http://500px.com/jdnovora


http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/664324/


https://members.nationalgeographic.com/529055050379/


Hope I can continue this advocacy to show the world that nature is our home, that nature is beautiful gift to us, that nature can be preserved by only us and that nature will be as beautiful as it is if we give importance to it.