‘Illuminare” (I’lu-min’a-re) is Italian for “light up” or ‘illuminare”, as the book speaks much about light which is the principal element in an old but not-so-popular technique in photography called “light painting”. ILLUMINARE: A Photography Guide to Light Painting is the first book to be written about the subject that goes most in-depth in discussing this photographic technique. The author’s goal in publishing his work is to spark a new trend and a new era in Philippine art photography.

The book is proudly Filipino written and Philippine published, aiming to inspire other Filipino artists to write and share their knowledge, hoping that books of art will become more accessible to our people, so that they would no longer have to resort to buying books by foreign authors and publishers.

This very day marks the 1,000th view of my page. I needed a thousand souls to break the curse, and a thousand souls have so far wandered and drifted into my realm. After three (thousand) long years of slumber, I shall finally awaken and rise, and I shall reassert my throne. It has been foretold under the shade of storm clouds… drawn on black sands… spelt on ebony smoke by the seers of old, I shall come and cast a wicked plague –a dark madness. Every breathing thing will inhale the air from the crypts and caverns and the crevices of my lungs and their minds will be infused with the evil scheme; with the stain that is in my breath, and they shall be my minions, and they’ll spread more madness into this world… this is only the beginning, and I will not cease until all beings on earth revere me and celebrate my existence.

I hear the murmurs of your mind, it echoes into mine… I am kind too, and forgiving, and I see that you no longer find sense in my words.

Actually, all I really wanted to say is, “Yehey!!!”