Photography At Its Finest

Who doesn't love dazzling over photographs? 

We hold on to every piece of Kodak paper and keep them in our wallets, exhaust energy on constructing colorful scrapbooks, fill our walls with picture frames, follow blogs, collect magazines, buy expensive DSLRs, enroll in photography classes, endure starvation just to get that plateful of food photographed, etc. 

Every photo is a memoir in still life preserved. Every photo is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime occurrence that can never be perfectly re-done. That's why we can never tire ourselves from them. Anyone with hands and fingers can click a camera but only few are gifted with deftness to make others see how magnificently they perceive the world through photographs. 

It's still Medicine Week and along with it is a Photo Contest called Medscenes. 

Remember what I wrote about passion on my previous post? The photos below are an epitome of how people who stay up all night studying for exams and SGDs still happily subsist with interests totally unrelated to academics. The magnificence of each photo is a living testimony that passion outside medschool can still yield uncompromising results. :)

You've all been very supportive to my "blogger" self. Thank you very much! Now, I hope that you'd also support my "other" self-- the self that I live out on non-weekends, five days a week-- my "medical student" self. My batch, Juventus Aestimat Excellere (JAX), also has entries for the above contest, and I humbly ask for your support on liking the photos below in Facebook. :)

Links are provided below each photo so you just have to simply click them and like entries no. 3-15.

Voting is open to all of you, Philippine and International readers! Please help us win this! :D 

 #3 The Sower

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118691683309&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3

#4 Halo

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118635016648&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #5 On Spilled Blood

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118608349984&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1 

#6 Miss Saigon

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118018350043&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #6A New Life

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118031683375&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

#7 Waiting Gaze

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118048350040&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #8 Alight

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118071683371&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #9 In the Midst of Silence

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118088350036&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #10 Someday

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118111683367&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #11 Sip-onon

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118145016697&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

 #12 Flight of Fancy

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118168350028&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

#13 So Long, Sweet Summer

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118195016692&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

#14 Parliament

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118231683355&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

#15 Dance With The Sun

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417118278350017&set=a.417117935016718.94296.417104488351396&type=3&permPage=1

Awesome mix of simplicity and grandeur, ay?

What I love most about these photos is that they aren't just literal interpretations of people, places, and things. They are arsty, unpredictable, well-conceptualized, and they tell a unique story to each spectator.

I'd be very thrilled if you'd spread the love with your friends too! Again, Photos No. 3-15!

Which one's your favorite? Let me know!

And thanks in advance for supporting my batch! :D

Much love,

Mela

EDIT: Sadly, this contest is done already. Thanks for all your support! All the photos above are owned and copyrighted by the photographers so please credit accordingly. :)