Photos and short narrative by Art G. Valenzuela I would consider myself as one lucky guy as I am both a city boy and a “promdi” who has access to both city life (as in Dagupan City and Metro Manila) and rural-provincial life. Every week – coming from either Dagupan…

Photos and short narrative by Art G. Valenzuela A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL! I AM ALWAYS FASCINATED with the combination of at least three elements of nature in my photographs. In each of these photos there is always water together with dramatic skyline and a piece of land. Notice…

Photos and short story by Art G. Valenzuela The colors and lights of Christmas are on display in these places where the spirit of “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is very much alive and celebrated. In Lingayen, the capital of the Province of Pangasinan, a choral group entertained…

Photos and short story by Art G. Valenzuela Exclusive to the SUNDAY PUNCH Let me break away momentarily from the world of colored photos and present this album in black in white, for there is beauty and nostalgia in black and white. These are old churches in the Ilocos region,…

Photos and short story by Art Valenzuela (Exclusive to the Sunday Punch) Whenever I think of taking a long vacation, “away from it all,” there is one place that always comes to my mind as it weaves back pleasant memories of the past — Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte. It is…

Photo and short narrative by Art G. Valenzuela (Exclusive to The Sunday Punch)   I always love to capture the rising of the sun and its setting. Perhaps it is the artist in me or putting it more succinctly — the romantic in me that inspires me to go to…

Photos and short story by Art G. Valenzuela “These boots are made for walking,” so goes the old song. And my camera is made to capture wonderful memories in wonderful places. Rather than store them in the inner recesses of my mind, here I am, sharing these nature photos with…

Photo and a short story by Art G. Valenzuela A FEW years ago, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources donated a portion of its 25,000-hectare forest reserve to the local governments of the Municipality of Diadi and the Province of Nueva Viscaya for weekly tree-planting activities where on-site picnics…

Photos and story by Art G. Valenzuela WHOSE HANDS crafted and baked the more than a million bricks and tiles that make up the façade and walls of the Fort Ilocandia Resort in Ilocos Norte? It was also in 1982 when the Ministry of Agriculture Region 1 Director Manuel “Maning”…