Birds of Subic Bay Book

November 21, 2024

As a wildlife photographer, one of my many goals was to write and publish a book containing several of my best photographs of Philippine birds. I never thought that the day of having my own book with my own photographs would come so soon.

And yesterday, we finally launched Birds of Subic Bay!

This is the first book I’ve authored all by myself. It is a photographic compilation of 101 bird species found in Subic Bay, one of the Philippines most treasured birding sites. This project started out as a small pandemic dream spanning 3-4 years of work since the beginning of the lockdown, and seeing it finally come together is incredibly gratifying. Words aren’t enough to describe the feeling of finally fulfilling one of your goals as a wildlife photographer.

This incredible journey, the first of many, would not have been possible without the support of our friends and partners in Subic Bay like the SBMA, Wildlife In Need Foundation - Philippines, Ayala Malls Harbor Point, Ocean Adventure, SubicGO, DENR, CENRO, Subic Ayta Guides Association, Subic Indigenous People’s Assistance Group, Hospitality Alliance of SBFZ, FUNtastic Subic Bay, the Binictican Backyard Birders, the Wild Bird Photographers of the Philippines - WBPP, and many more. Most of all, my biggest thanks goes out to the Haring Ibon Birds in Focus Family for making this book and event even possible and overseeing a project, as intense and as lengthy as Birds of Subic Bay, all to the end. Maraming Salamat!

All that I have left to say is that Birds of Subic Bay is the first of many more to come.