River

River, the Beach Lab.

This is River. He’s the star of the San Juan Surf Resort in Urbiztondo, La Union, aside from Luke Landrigan, of course, the other La Union women’s attraction and surf star (a shoutout to Luke and the good people of Billabong Surf School at the resort! See you guys soon!). This lazy, irresistable lab is the epitome of the surfer’s lifestyle. If this dog could talk, he’d sound like stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”), whose portrayal just stereotyped surfers everywhere (Surfers aren’t stoners duuude. Nooot coool.)

River here, however, has that same surfers’ demeanor. He just loves to hang out at the beach, loves the water, loves all the love and attention that the ladies give him. But to answer the lingering question in your mind, NO, the dog can’t surf. At least, not to my knowledge. I’ll be sure to watch out for that the next time I go back.

But he sure can sunbathe like he’s being paid to do it. Awesome.

There Are No Accidents…

… but there is this photoblog. Hi! My name is Don Manganar, and I am a freelance photographer and writer. This here is my first photoblogproject. I have blogged before, and have been shooting for 2 years, so I can’t really say that this is something new to me, but I can tell you for sure that I am very excited about this project. Let’s just say that I’ve made a commitment with myself to keep being immersed in the very things that I love doing — writing, photography, and the Internets.

The challenge in the past has always been to keep the blog interesting and updated, but now most of my excitement comes from the fact that I have lots of photos that I want to share with you, both old, current, and new (wait, I said both. Sorry.) No use for all my pictures to lay wasted in my hard drive. Might as well post them, and maybe you can tell me how the heck I got the shot to come out like it did.

I really hope to make the site user-friendly, interactive, and fun. I hope to see lots of discussion, criticism (constructive or otherwise), and advice, that will help me, and all other photographers or writers out there. So expect this site to be constantly evolving, as I also hope to evolve into a better photographer-slash-writer through our interactions.

I’m really looking forward to this! And I hope you are too See you in the next post!

Cheers,

Don