Children play in the light and shadows of tidepools along Rizal Boulevard on the waterfront of Dumaguete City, Philippines.  A man peruses a freshly butchered pig in the meat and seafood section of the Dumaguete City Public Market.  A frog lays in wait for insects inside a lotus flower in bloom on the campus of Foundation University in Dumaguete City.  A woman is bathed in the streaming water of Pulang Bato Falls near the village of Palinpinon on Negros Island in the Philippines.  A homeless man and his children sit on a bench along Rizal Boulevard on the waterfront of Dumaguete City.  Water in Tambobo Bay splashes off a float of a traditional Filipino outrigger canoe known as a bangka.  Fish skim across the surface of the sea in an attempt to avoid being caught up in a net raised from the shallows along the beach near the village of Amlan.  A leaf floats in a pool beside Pulang Bato Falls near the village of Palinpinon. The translation for pulang bato is red rock.  A bicyclist relaxes in the late afternoon on the sea wall along Rizal Boulevard in Dumaguete City.  Young men are silhouetted against the blue light of dusk as they play basketball on a seaside court in the municipality of San Jose.  A street musician counts his earnings along Rizal Boulevard on the waterfront of Dumaguete City.  Life bustles in the early morning in the meat and seafood section of the Dumaguete Public Market.  A bicyclist is lit by the rays of the rising sun along Rizal Boulevard on the waterfront of Dumaguete City.  A child plays on the beach along the waterfront of Dumaguete City.  The bow of a traditional outrigger called a bangka points out to sea along the waterfront of Dumaguete City.  Children playing by the sea are framed in the mesh of a fence along Rizal Boulevard in Dumaguete City.  Hermit crabs scoot along the pebble beach at Tambobo Bay, a fishing community on Negros Island in the Philippines.  Children perform flips as they play on the beach on the waterfront of Dumaguete City.  A man walks through a cloud of smoke in the public market of Sibulan, a seaside community on Negros Island in the Philippines.  A child caked in mud sits in the shallows of the waterfront of Dumaguete City.
For the South Pacific Photo Workshop held last month in Dumaguete City, Philippines, we worked mainly with beginners. The group included two Americans and 9 Filipinos – each eager to learn, and pro...