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moonlightflight — Poverty at sea
Published: 2007-05-24 18:05:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1854; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 17
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Another photo I took this summer. We were on-board a ship from Cebu going to Bohol when my dad snatched my book away and told me to get my camera. He dragged me to the side of the ship where a crowd of tourists seem to be growing by the minute.It turns out they were all giving away money to the sea gypsies gathered below. Snapped this before my dad surprised me by letting go of a 20 and before the old lady got hit by a coin.
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Camera: "Caleb" Canon A640
Location: On-board the Super Ferry
*Minimum editing done in PSCS2 (border, cropping, and watermark)*
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may I know when was this taken? maybe we were on the same trip!! (joke... of course maybe they do this on every super ferry in cebu) jejejeje
I remember when I threw a 25 centavo coin , most of them shouted "KURIPOT!!!" XXDXXDDD I was liek
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Wow! That's one amazing subject you have there. And you caught it perfectly. Just shows you that art is found anywhere you go.
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True that! 
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Sometimes we do need to listen to them.
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Very fitting title. The water looks unreal.. Very nice ^^
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Thanks very much! :3
Glad you liked it.
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Thank you! glad you liked it! :3
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wow
ive never seen a pic quite like this...
never heard of gypsies...
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Thanks so much! :3
It was the first time I knew about them that time, too! It was a very interesting sight.
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thanks, Paul. :3
I still think you're a monster!
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what do the sea gypsies do? interesting shot by the way
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thanks... they were just begging for money. Oh, and some of the women were raising there babies.
I didn't know if they were doing it to look more pitiful or if they were selling them. @__@
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o________O okay. i thought they were like manghuhulas or something
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Nice shot view, its good your dad tagged you so you could get this shot. The emotions of the people who are looking up from below are well seen, great shot! Its not all the time you get to capture a scene like that with so much attention but with style, though its terrible to know that they are sea beggars. I feel sorry for the old lady who got hit by the coin, that hurts!
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argh! you should've seen her expression after!
I didn't know if I should be more pissed or just concentrate on not laughing.
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I see, its a 50 50 thing hehe. Im not sure on what I would do if I were there too T_T
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wow that s really good!poor lady got hit by a coin! nice job!
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ooo this is indeed interesting..never heard of sea beggars...
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It was the first time I heard of them too. It was pretty sad tho, since most of them had babies with them in their little boats.
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really? *full-views again* oh how sad
the people on the ship need to be good aimers...if they're not, thats probably why the divers are there
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yeah. I got a bit mad at whoever the hell the coin belonged to.
Anyway, those divers were actually impressive. You could throw a coin into the waters and they'd come up after a few seconds with it in their hands! :claps:
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i thought it was your father
i would throw a few coins to see that hehehe
if only they could dive for pearls, their destiny will change.
money is falling from the sky ^^
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