The *new* Barrow Downs photo page!

[Lindale]

that is a bit embarrassing.. my plain face all alone in that page...

[Gwathagor]

That's a beautiful church, Lindale. (I'm assuming it's a church...)

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

That's a beautiful church, Lindale. (I'm assuming it's a church...)

An old Anglican church built during the American colonization period in the Cordillera area (around the 1900s I believe). Those Anglo-American missionaries succeeded in less than twenty years where the Spaniards failed for three hundred years--Christianizing the area. That is in Sagada, Mt. Province, way up in in the northern mountains of the Philippines, where the people are believed to be dogeaters and savage head-hunters (true, in a sense). Beside the church is the Anglican graveyard, and opposite that is the very traditional graveyard of the Igorots (hollow tree-trunks as sarcophagi, which hang very gracefully on the mountain cliffs), which thankfully the Anglo-Ams did not destroy. Well, if they did, the Igorots would have hunted their heads like they did the Spanish.

Oh by the way, that was taken two or three years ago, so maybe the wave of modernization has more or less changed the area... I hope not.

[The Only Real Estel]

Not a picture for the photo page but for the heck of it here's one of me during the craze of the Dark Knight premiere

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Rockin' pic, TOREstel. Love it.

[Lindale]

Nice one, Only Real Estel.

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Originally Posted by Lindale

that is a bit embarrassing.. my plain face all alone in that page...

I thought I'd join you so you won't feel so alone, Lindale. It's just the problem of finding a decent picture. I'm dashingly handsome of course, but I can't seem to find a photographer good enough to capture it on film. Or perhaps I need a new camera.

Don't know who runs this show but I attached a few pics of various size.. er.. take your pick!

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...CN05770005.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ang2005009.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...Lao2005005.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...nce/30r027.jpg

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by skip spence

I'm dashingly handsome of course, but I can't seem to find a photographer good enough to capture it on film. Or perhaps I need a new camera.

Dashingly handsome, eh? I've never found someone here in BD that... fits my taste when it comes to the face-value. Well, the family always thought I have a very weird taste for boyfriends and crushes; this must be another manifestation. peace man!

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Originally Posted by Lindale

Well, the family always thought I have a very weird taste for boyfriends and crushes; this must be another manifestation.

Yeah, that must be it. *sighs and shakes head*

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by skip spence

Yeah, that must be it. *sighs and shakes head*

Just take it as a compliment from someone who thinks Edward Scissorhands-Johnny Depp is cute and who likes to have crushes on nerdy Physics professors. *sighs*

Just a thought though: 'tmight be better for your last photo to have been shot if the sun wasn't too high or something.

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Originally Posted by Lindale

Just a thought though: 'tmight be better for your last photo to have been shot if the sun wasn't too high or something.

So you're saying I'd look better without light? Hey now, that's just mean!

[Lindale]

Noooo!

My dad's a photographer, see, and he teaches me whenever I get the time. I think he'd say that the camera needed filter. Yes, that's it, that's what I was thinking a while ago. Camera filters. Damn English skills.