374 - Testing some portrait shots in Buscalan Village.

Good day once again beautiful Hiveans. I wanted to share some photos back when we went to the village where Apo Wang-Od resides. We stayed in a house of one of her relatives, well most of the people living in this village are blood relatives so the bond they have in this small community is tight. They village is somewhere in a mountain side and they have a great view of the road where people are gonna be coming from. Once we set to the humble home of our host I went to a small terrace at their upper floor where we are staying and notice the plants grown on used milk cans.

There were several empty milk cans which were redesigned with soil to be use for plants and well their living up to their purpose as a can for five finger weeds to grow on to. The province of Kalinga where this small village is located has always been in the news as one of the major source of Marijuana plants and that's maybe the reason that they put these plants as ornaments at their home which is dope.😅

I only wonder if all of them here are using it as medicine or for recreational use or perhaps both already. There are wide ranges of mountains here so planting these kinds of weeds is easy and also difficult for the national government to figure out where are all the plantations are. That's how this weed became my subject for portrait 😅.

Moving on to portrait where our subject is my lovely wife. She covered the weed behind and we can see the rooftops of the neighbors. This is their kind of houses in here, no fancy structure just a house with roof for their families and domesticated animals to live on.

Then we went out of the house where we were staying for a night and went to a souvenir shop to buy a bamboo stick with a calamansi thorn in it which will be required to get a tattoo since they require tourists to have their own thorns that will be used for the traditional tattoo and that's where I also practice taking some portrait shots of my wife and I think I still need more practice.

That's the road in the background, it is carved off the mountain side by workers and the road is still fine even if it's raining heavy for several days, no land slides so far when we were there.

The store where we bought our traditional tattoo kits.😊

There are also rice terraces here but not as huge as the ones in Batad which is world class. Here are also distinct terraces which they use to farm their rice so they can have a harvest for their families consumption. Those tiny houses also belong to other locals here in this peaceful tiny village.

Follow me on my nature travels. Shot taken in Kalinga, Philippines.

Image/s were shot using Panasonic Lumix ZS110. ~rex