"This is not my gallery of certainties. It is an ongoing account of adventures and misadventures, of accidents--happy and otherwise--and of successes and failures. It is an irreverent brain dump of accumulated knowledge, much of it hard won in the school of hard knocks, bad bounces, lousy exposures, and misguided notions. None of it was present at birth, embedded genes, the way the ability to throw a football a couple of hundred yards or grow to over seven feet and outrun a gazelle might be for some.

It is a gallery about what I do. "



IN FOCUS

I read a profile of one flickr member and she said:

"My camera's a sort of mindfulness bell that keeps me alert to the possibilities of every place at every moment".

So true, when I photograph, my world is in focus. In harmony with nature, people and the whole world. I see things without prejudice and most importantly, without fear. I simply capture everyone's unique beauty in every aspect of life. The outcome is always rewarding. For all these, I will write my life's story with light.

- Joaquin Ramos Felix

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    vinjud2001 says:

    "WHEN I LOOK AT JOAQUIN’S (OMAR TO HIS FRIENDS) ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS THROUGH HIS PHOTOGRAPHY, IT MAKES MY MIND SOAR OF THE POSSIBILITIES IN THIS WORLD: A NEW PERSPECTIVE, A NEW COLOR, A NEW DIMENSION, A NEW ART FORM, AND A NEW EYE. HIS UNIQUE, UNPARALLELED TALENT IS JUST BEGINNING TO EXPLODE. WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS JUST THE TIP OF AN ICEBERG, SO TO SPEAK. THERE IS A MASSIVE POTENTIAL WAITING TO BE FREED AND EXPLORED, AND SLOWLY BUT SURELY, HE IS GOING TOWARDS THE DIRECTION THAT HIS HEART HAD BEEN TELLING HIM TO GO, THAT OF SHARING THE BEAUTY OF THIS WORLD THOUGH HIS EYES, EXPRESSING THEM THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY. HIS OPENESS TO LEARN NEW THINGS, HIS PATIENCE IN DISSECTING THE DETAILS, HIS EXCITEMENT IN DISCOVERING NEW WAYS TO HEIGHTENED COLORS AND LIGHTS (BOTH SUBTLE AND SCREAMING) ARE EXPRESSIONS OF HIS RESTLESS SOUL, NOT SETTLING FOR JUST GOOD BUT THE PURSUIT OF WHAT IS BEST. THE MILLION ACCOLADES AND PRAISES THROWN AT HIM AND SOME PEOPLE DYING TO IMITATE AND MASTER HIS STYLE ARE JUST MINUTE RECOGNITION OF HIS IMMENSE TALENT COMPARED TO THE HAPPINESS AND JOY OF THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED TO BE RECIPIENT OF HIS WORK: A COUPLE WHO HAD THEIR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, A FRIEND WHO CELEBRATED HIS 40TH B-DAY, MODELS AND ACTORS WHO WANTS STUNNING PORTFOLIOS, STRANGERS WHOSE DESIRE TO IMMORTALIZE THEIR PETS THROUGH HIS PHOTOGRAPHY, FAMILY, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WHOSE LIFE CELEBRATIONS ARE CAPTURED AND DOCUMENTED BY OMAR. THESE ARE JUST FEW PEOPLE WHOSE MEMORABLE MOMENTS ARE MATERIALIZED AND BECOMES TANGIBLE ANY TIME WHEN SENTIMENTALITIES ARISE AND WHOSE LIVES ARE CHANGED FOREVER THROUGH HIS ART.
    HIS INDEFATIGABLE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION IN HIS ART AND HIS SEARCH FOR THAT ELUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE THAT WILL LEAVE AN INDELIBLE MARK IN THE FIELD PHOTOGRPAHY THAT IS HIS OWN, IS PALPABLE IN HIS INSATIABLE EXPERIMENTATION AND MANY PHOTOSHOOTS AND LOCATION SHOOTING, FOLLOWED BY HOURS UPON HOURS OF STYLING AND PERFECTING OF THE IMAGE THAT WILL AWE THE WORLD…….
    ARTIST LIKE OMAR MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN, THE BEAUTIES OF VIRGIN PARADISE ARE EXPOSED AND DISCOVERED THROUGH HIS ADVENTURES AND SHARED THROUGH MULTIPLE PHOTOSTREAMS TO THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. SIMPLE, MUNDANE STILL LIFE LIKE A PAIR OF CHAIR COMES TO LIFE BY EXPOSING THE FRAGILITY AND SENSITIVITY OF THE OBJECT THROUGH HIS PERSPECTIVE. THE BEAUTY OF NATURE CAPTURED BY OMAR SHOUT OUT TO THE GLORY OF OUR CREATOR, IT BRINGS HOPE TO THE WORLD, IT CREATES A DEEP LOVE AND COMPASSION TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND RESPECT TO THE CREATURES WHO ARE DEPENDENT TO THE RIVERS, MOUNTAINS, TREES, GRASSES, FLOWERS AND BODIES OF WATER. EACH PICTURE CAPTURED BY OMAR IS A SILENT PRAYER OF GRATITUDE AND THANKSGIVING.
    OMAR, THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF YOUR ART. THE WORLD IS SILENTLY WITNESSING THE CREATION OF A LEGEND THAT IS YOU. YOU ARE THE EPITOME OF AN ARTIST AND I AM SO BLESSED IN MANY FOLDS BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS.
    THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR SOUL THOUGH YOUR ART........."

    7th July, 2009

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April 2008
Hometown:
Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
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