The Top 10 Manila Photowalk Photos

Okay, after going through 300++ photos 4 to 5 times, I’d have to say that it’s not an easy task to pick the winner. If you read my previous post (see below), I used the CoolIris plug-in to view the photos from the group. This allowed me to scroll through the gallery quickly as well as view them in a large monitor (and full-screen). Just to let you know, they look awesome on an Apple 23″ Cinema Display! Okay, eough with the boring stuff…

I don’t think it will do justice if I just mentioned the winner outright because there are a LOT of great photos. So, I thought I’d like to share with you the TOP 10 photos that I picked and they’re displayed here in no particular order.

Before I begin, ‘What’s the criteria?’, you may ask. Well, I really have a simple criteria – I picked the photos that I felt had an impact and either told a story, or captured the scene of Manila. I also had some inputs from various friends, but at the end, I had to come up with a list of my own. I know you can’t wait much longer, so here they are:

Veinte Tres by Ricky Ladia:

Calamansi Lady by Sam Rosales:

Newspaper Lady by Sam Rosales:

Fly On by Stephen Lavoie:

5 Kids by Dindin Lagdameo:

Binondo 2 by Jared Posion:

Photo by Chris Yu:

image 3 by Ma-Anne Roque:

Long Day in Binondo by Joel Garcia:

And finally, the WINNER – ‘My Manila by Joel Garcia’!

Joel – Congratulations! You will get a free copy of Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2 Book!

The details here are also posted in the Manila Group Page (including the winner).

To all those who joined – thanks so much! Looking forward to see you all again in next year’s photowalk! Again, I just wanted to let you know that it wasn’t an easy decision to make.