Paglambo

I've just started this blog and there really is this feeling of enthusiasm to make this work out. I don't know where this comes from but I think my passion to photography these days has pushed me to post more entries and do sorts of enhancements. So, here's my second compilation of photos. This entry deals on the beauty that I have seen in industrialization. And the blog title itself, PAGLAMBO /pag-lam-bo/, a Visayan term which means development, generally introduces the concept of the photos in this entry. In my first blog, my subject focused more on the natural environment, and this new entry will be the other side of it. My photos are not too artistic though (as you may see), since I just applied what I have generally known about the principles of art, and haven't really had any formal lessons about photography. But I think as a newbie, this can be a good start. So, hope you'll like it.

"Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. "

- Daniel De Leon

The Hustle and Bustle
Imam Ali Street, Al Qatif, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

"I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand,
and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
 - Bernard Berenson

The Facade
Kingdom Tower, Al Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

“A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base,  and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.”
 - William Lyon Phelps

On Construction
Al Khobar, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. "
- William Graham Sumner

Skyscraper in Riyadh
Al Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

"If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have." 
 - K. Eric Drexler 

Shone
Al Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3
"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "
~ Dante Alighieri

Share-A-Ton
Sheraton Hotel, Dammam, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's largest and second oldest brand. And the picture shows the poolside view of Sheraton Hotel, Dammam, KSA

A Gloomy Friday in Riyadh
Al Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

“Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.”
- The Bible

Sheraton Hotel 
Dammam, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3
" A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. "
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)

The Deck On Top
Kingdom Tower Mall, Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

Poolside of Sheraton Hotel
Dammam, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

"I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep;
for my shadow in the pool can do better than that."
- Confucius

Angle the Edge
Sheraton Hotel, Dammam, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

Angle the Edge
Sheraton Hotel, Dammam, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

I almost lost my camera because of the photos that follow, coz' the security personnel was about to confiscate it since it's not allowed in the Kingdom Tower of Riyadh. Thank God I know a little bit of Arabic and I apologized to them...hehe

A Night Life @ Riyadh
Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

A Night Life @ Riyadh
Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

A Night Life @ Riyadh
Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

A Night Life @ Riyadh
Riyadh, KSA
Tools: SONY @380 / Adobe CS3

"If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. "

- K. Eric Drexler