Japanese Garden


Title: Japanese Garden

By: Erwin Gipit

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Cavinti

The Japanese Garden is a shrine created by Philippine-Japan Friendship Society in memory of the Japanese soldiers who died during the encounter between the Japanese and Filipino-American troops at the close of World War II. Also to symbolizethe amity and friendship that exist between the Philippines and Japan. There are picnic huts on the lower level of the garden where visitors can sit and enjoy a snack.

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St. John The Baptist Parish Church


Title: St. John The Baptist Parish Church

By: Apple Estiva

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Liliw


St. John The Baptist Parish Church. Our parish church in Liliw, Laguna was built in 1605 in Romanesque style. Like most churches, it also suffered from earthquake in 1880 and fire in 1898.


But due to its religious parishioners, it has been well preserved and continues to get developed over time. Up to this day, Liliwenos, as the towns people are called, continue to preserve and beautify the church in the desire to restore its former glory.

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Pandin Lake


Title: Pandin Lake

By: Hector Estrellado

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City


Pandin has an area of 20.5 hectares and a maximum depth of 63 meters. It has a calculated volume of 6,600 cubic meters of water in storage.


Pandin is considered oligotrophic because of the abundant plant and fish life.

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Parish of San Pablo delos Montes


Title: Parish of San Pablo delos Montes

By: Hector Estrellado

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City

Juan de Salcedo founded San Pablo as the kingdom of "Sampaloc". Augustinian priests built a church in the 16th century. And in 1586 it was erected as a parish and known as the "Parish of San Pablo delos Montes". In 1910 it became part of the Archdiocese of Lipa and on November 28, 1966 became an independent diocese as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila. On April 18, 1967 Bishop Pedro N. Bantigue was installed as its first bishop.

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Lilio Church



Title: Lilio Church

By: Erwin Gipit

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Liliw

The Saint John The Baptist Parish (Lilio Church) in Liliw, Laguna was founded in 1605. The original church and convent were badly damaged in 1880 during a strong earthquake, while the reconstructed church was partly burned in 1898.

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Arabela


Title: Arabela

By: Erwin Gipit

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Liliw

In the land of slippers in Liliw, Laguna, the Arabela restaurant is the foodie place to be in. A low-ceiling restaurant which is cute and patronized by even foreigners. Named after their daugthers Ara and Bela, Bobby and Tonet Camello started the restaurant by just selling cakes and brownies. They serve cakes, pastries, pasta, pizza and coffee. 


Arabela FB FanPage



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Nuvali


Title: Nuvali

By: Erwin Gipit

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Sta Rosa


Solenad blends essential shopping with leisure and dining in a relaxing, al fresco, lakeside environment. The area is connected to the now operational Lakesize Evozone commercial area by dedicated pedestrian and bike lanes. 


The Lakeside Evozone is the refreshing campus-like commercial area of Nuvali. It creates a new space for offices and businesses to thrive in an environment of productivity and connectivity. Solenad sits at the entrance of the Lakeside Evozone area coming from the Sta. Rosa-Tagaytay Road, and is nestled next to a 4-hectare lake. Its accessible and picturesque location invites people to sit, sip and dine with family and friends. 


Solenad has also become a destination for the surrounding communities of Sta. Rosa, Calamba City, Tagaytay City and Manila. This is in collaboration with Ayala Land Inc., and Yulo Family.

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Puto,kakanin,sapin-sapin at iba pa


Title: Puto,kakanin,sapin-sapin at iba pa.

By: Jomari Ayala

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Biñan

Puto is Philippine steamed rice cake, eaten as is or with butter and/or grated fresh coconut or as accompaniment to a number of savory dishes for breakfast.

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Laguna Photo and Video Summit 2011


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Palmeras


Title: Palmeras


By: Mekk Amante

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City


Among the Many Local and Native Restaurants in San pablo City, this restaurant, located at the national highway before the forked road going to the City center, is the Number one Native restaurant hands down. This restaurant offers native dishes but what stands out here is that it offers both live bands for the youth set (mostly R & B like Akon, Ja Rule or 50 Cent) and Combo-Bands (old bands that belt out folk songs by Jim Croce, carpenters, Cat Stevens, Eagles, Bread, etc) with no cover charge. the bands play alternately for about 30 minutes.

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Palmeras Garden Restaurant FB Fanpage

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Pandin Lake


Title: Pandin Lake

By: Jeck Mendoza

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City


Located in Barangay San Lorenzo, Pandin has an area of 20.5 hectares and a maximum depth of 63 meters. It has a calculated volume of 6,600 cubic meters of water in storage.
Pandin is considered oligotrophic because of the abundant plant and fish life.

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Good Morning Sampaloc Lake!


Title: Good Morning Sampaloc Lake!

By: Jake Mercado

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City


The Legend of Sampaloc Lake is a story of the largest and most beautiful of the seven lakes of San Pablo, Laguna. San Pablo is also known as the City of the Seven Lakes.


Once upon a time, there live a well-to-do but childless couple. They own a garden that is filled with sweet tamarinds (sampaloc) which became famous all over the island and beyond. In order to make sure that no one would enter their yard and steal their tamarind, the couple built a fence around the yard and placed a watchdog to guard it.


Testing the hospitality of the couple, a fairy disguised as a poor old woman, went to the couple and begged for some tamarind to relieve her hunger. The couple did not even looked at the old woman and instead of yielding to her appeal, they became very angry and drove her away by letting the ferocious dog loose. The old woman was badly hurt.


Before she turned away from the couple, she touched the tamarind tree and said, "You shall be punished for your selfishness." Then she slowly went away.
The sky suddenly became overcast even before the old lady was out of sight. A terrible storm broke out and heavy rains fell through the night.


The next morning, the couple went through their usual routine. Instead of tall green tamarind trees, the couple was startled to see a vast expanse of water. Unconvinced of what happened, they went forward to the bank of the lake and saw through the transparent water the tamarind trees still rooted to the sunken ground.
From that day on, the place became known as "Sampaloc Lake,"

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Banka sa Sampaloc Lake



Title: Sampaloc Lake

By: Babbles Abdon Cristobal

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City

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Super Mario Clouds



Title: Super Mario Clouds

By: Christopher Manalo

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Sta Cruz

Santa Cruz is situated on the banks of the river bearing its name which course its way along the eastern part of the famous Laguna de Bay. The town is bounded by the Bay on the north, by Lumban and Pagsanjan towns in the east, Pagsanjan and Magdalena towns in the south, and Pila and Liliw towns in the west. It is approximately 87 kilometers from Manila via Calamba and 105 km via Pililla, in the province of Rizal. It is accessible by land from the nearby 28 municipalities and by water through Laguna de Bay from Manila and some Rizal towns.

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Laguna Sunset



Title: Laguna Sunset

By: Christopher Manalo

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Sta Cruz

Santa Cruz is considered as the service and commercial center on the eastern part of the province. The town is composed of five barangays in the Poblacion area and 21 classified urban barangays. Although relatively far from the immediate urbanizing influence of Metropolitan Manila, Santa Cruz continues to progress. It is now classified as first class municipality. 


The present administration is headed by the Honorable Mayor Ariel Magcalas. Santa Cruz is also the seat of the provincial government since 1885, giving the municipality an additional administrative function over the entire province. It also functions as the service center for transportation, commerce, health, education, and other social services for the predominantly rural northeastern municipalities of the province. Boosting the economy of the municipality are the incipient and fast growing agribusiness industries such as livestock raising, horticulture and aquaculture. The town is composed of twenty-six (26) urban barangays. All barangays are being classified as urban.

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Sun


Title: Sun

By: Tei Rubin Danila

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City


Just Beyond The Sunset
by: David Harris


Just beyond the sunset
Someone waits for me
Just beyond the sunset
Lies my destiny
Where the purple mountains
Lie in deep tranquillity
There I’ll find the treasure
Of love eternally


Just beyond the sunset
Waits someone so fair
Just beyond the sunset
All alone they wait there
Their hair is golden
The colour of the sand
Their eyes sparkle in the night
Like diamonds in your hand


Just beyond the sunset
Lies a home for me
Where the world is peaceful
Like a paradise should be
Just beyond the sunset
Someday is where you’ll find me



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Running Over Laguna


Title: Running Over Laguna

By: Joem Martinez

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: Nagcarlan

The ending rains in October always bring the townspeople of Nagcarlan in a huddle of excitement as it prepares them for a festive mood to celebrate Pestibal ni Ana Kalang, Nagcarlan's commemoration of bountiful harvest from their argo-industrial products.


Started in 1987, with the cultural and artistic inclination of then Mayor Demetrio T. Comendador and the Nagcarlan Community Development Council (NCDC), it continuously proliferate and became an integral part of the distinct culture of Nagcarlan.

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Lunar Eclipse


Title: Lunar Eclipse

By: Ralph Daryl Camposano Manalastas

Form or Media: Digital Photography

Location: San Pablo City

A total lunar eclipse took place on June 15, 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second will occur on December 10, 2011. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on July 16, 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018 over South America, western Africa, and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia. In western Asia, Australia and the Philippines, the lunar eclipse was visible just before sunrise

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Bidabayani Photo Contest


Bidabayani This is a photography contest launched by ABS-CBN Southern Tagalog in cooperation with Batangas Provincial Camera Club as part of ABS-CBN ST's 2nd year anniversary.
It aims to show how ordinary people initiate change through their ordinary actions.
Theme will be: Bawat isa sa bayan, uukit ng kasaysayan... tungo sa pagbabago at kaunlaran.
Contest is open for everyone in Southern Tagalog.
Preliminary screening and acceptance of entries will run until August 12, 2011 12 nn.

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