Now that I’ve been bitten by the PQ bug, I was excited to know the five objects that we were supposed to photograph this month, making it my second month to participate in PhotoQuest (which is now in its 19th installment).

Flip of Heresomewhere added a few buildings to this month’s list and I gladly obliged since I love photographing architecture. To sum up,  the participants of the July 2005 PQ have to photograph a bank, a calendar, an instrument, a library and a mannequin.

One of the most aesthetically pleasing bank buildings I’ve ever seen in Ortigas is that of Banco De Oro, with its cube sculpture seemingly floating because of its tilted angle.

Banco De Oro along ADB Avenue

When we were told to photograph a calendar, I decided to photograph a calendar that we got from our parish church.

July 2005 calendar

During my Elementary days, I was part of the Drum and Lyre Club for our  school. The boys played the drums while the girl played the lyre, a percussion instrument with metal bars that you hit with a beater. It looks kindda run down already but I associate a lot of good memories with this lyre.

The lyre I played during my Elementary days

I’ve always been fascinated by libraries — I could spend a whole day in a library and not get bored (I could say the same thing for Internet cafes nowadays!). I like the public library of Manila because there’s no fee to be paid and they even have some rare books in their collection.

The Manila Public Library

The last item to be photographed for the July 2005 PhotoQuest was a mannequin and I found this to be the trickiest one to do. I didn’t want to be questioned when I photograph a store mannequin so I turned off the flash in my digital camera and walked away hurriedly after taking this picture.

Mannequin at a display window in a popular mall