Finally, after 5 years ko na hinahanap ang file na ito... whew!..nakita ko rin..
Holy Week 1998 pa ito kuha sa Cainta, Rizal... dapat last holyweek ko ito i- post
para exactly 10years, kaso di ko talaga makita ang file... This is my entry sa FPPF National Holyweek Photo Contest, and naka rank naman sya as 6th place... Halos madapa ako sa kahahabol sa jeep, dala ko pa camera bag at tanghaling tapat...after that sabi ko..ayaw ko na ata maging photojournalist!!!! hahahahaha... Napansin nyo, parang sa totoong buhay, kasabay at katabi na natin si kristo, pero di pa rin natin sya napapansin... well, wala lang...

Minolta x700 , Fujifilm ASA 100
(wag nyo na tanungin shutter spped at aperture, di ko na matandaan...)

Reprinted: Images of Holyweek According to Edwin Loyola
by: Wilfred Marbella from Images

...... When Edwin took this photo, God must have been literally at arm's length. Poignant, and unrelenting, the image of Jesus Christ inside a crowded jeepney is a brilliant photograph of uncanny timing. To be at the right place, at the right time, at the right angle, this photograph is the ultimate image of God incarnate.

For a brief moment, we have the image of Christ with a most pensive and a most worried look on his face. It makes one wonder, what are this man's concerns? What is worrying this man? What is burdening him? Why does he look so glum? And how about the real Christ, as God-man, and man-God, what bothered him? How much bigger were his burdens compared to this man on the jeepney? This photograph makes one think, how much we have taken the death of Christ on the cross for granted. It makes us realize that there is Someone more important that ourselves, that Someone cared enough to die for us, that our burdens are as light as feather compared to Him. Holy as He is, cared enough to come down to the world of humans and that for a brief 33 years, He was part of us. He felt the sadness and misery. He was like you and me, and more. This is what the photograph is saying. This is what the image is telling us. What makes it more awakening is the contrast between the animated and active looks on the faces of the other passenters as they try to embrace all that is happening outside this small enclosure of the vehicle compared to man-Christ. The woman trying to crane her neck out in order to see what was happening, the children with amused faces actively reacting to the going-on, and "Christ" deep in his own thought, blood streaming down his face and yet his companions on the jeep not seeing to care. Does the Garden of Gethsemane bring this image back to life, How Judas betrayed his Saviour? How Peter denied his Lord? How we all take part in this crime as we disobey and set aside our morals in pursuit of more sensual pleasured?. This photo exhumes our buried relationship with values that is right and wrong. It is stirring reminder of how we have treated with utter indifference what the Holy week is all about, our personal relationship with the Lord. Let it not be said that Edwin did not hook us by the nose.

Aside from the contrast in facial expression, this photograph als impacts on a visual level as the scarlet robe jumps out from a see of blue and white, Again, the sheer luck in coincidence cannot come without the genius is recognizing what makes a great photograph. Dominating a third of the frame on the left side, while capturing the blue color of the jeepney around it, the scarlet color makes this photo one of excellent execution. The white sleeves of "Christ's" hand also leaps out of the center as to call attention to the praying hand. Even the green plate with the white numbers all fall into their proper place as a hint of analogous color combination is discerned. God incarnate, this is how Edwin Loyola wants us to remember the most holy of weeks. Ultimately, his photos remind us of how the devine God reached out to humanity, and how we as humans can reach out to God's divinity.