Zambales!

Last December I went to Zambales with my churchmates/orgmates. We stayed only overnight, but we took a lot of pictures and these are a few of them:

You can’t go on a beach trip without taking jump shots. This is one of the first few pictures we took. And as anyone who’s tried taking a group jump shot knows, it takes a few tries before getting it perfect. The picture on top shows that my two friends are still on the ground while I am in the air. The one on the bottom is a perfect jump shot with all three of us in the air. The shadows on the ground are a cue that none of us are on the ground.

This is a picture of the beautiful sunset. We can tell that my friend on the right side of the picture is nearer than the sea is because his figure is partially covering the view of the sea. Occlusion is the cue that allows us to undertsand this.

We had two bonfires that night, a big one and a mini one. In this picture we can see that the mini-bonfire is farther than the big one because its base is higher than the base of the big bonfire. This pictorial cue is called relative height.

While in the van on the way home, I took pictures of the beautiful scenery we passed by. The bushes in the foreground are blurry while the mountains and sky in the background are clear. This exhibits motion parallax which means that objects nearby seem to move by fast while objects farther away seem to move more slowly.

Reference:

Goldstein, E. B. (2010). Sensation and perception (8^th ed.). California, USA: Wadsworth.