VFDOMINGO, Photographer

Porfolio 06.26.08

2008-06-26T07:50:00.004+08:00

PR Minna Gervacio, balladeer Arthur Manuntag, Atty. Mike Toledo, actor Aga Mulach, former Ilocos Sur Governor Luis Singson, swimmer Kieran Dixon, Baguio City Mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Imago drummer Zach Lucero

Manila Cathedral at Night

2007-12-13T08:38:00.000+08:00

12/10/07, Manila, Philippines - I went to Manila Cathedral to hear the bamboo organ concert for the Christmas Season. The concert is not that appealing to me but the architecture of the church is awesome.

Glorietta 2 Explosion

2007-11-03T19:20:00.000+08:00

On 19 October 2007, 11 died and over a hundred more wounded in an explosion at an upscale Glorietta 2 mall in Ayala Center, right in the heart of the country's financial district of Makati City south of Manila, Philippines. Initial reports atribute the blast from a terrorist attack. Later on they blamed it on a poorly ventilated basement and methane gas sipping through the sewerage pipeline. (Photographs: Voltaire Domingo and Reynaldo Cedilla Jr. / NPPA Images)

Melo's Steak Factory

2007-07-21T19:36:00.000+08:00

Photographs: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images for Stratworks/Melo's

Appeal

2007-04-29T01:04:00.000+08:00

Hi friends!

Attached is a photo of a child asking for your helpthis coming election. It carries a simple message andthat is to vote with your conscience on May 14.

I encourage you as well to e-mail this image to yourfriends and officemates. You may also use it as yourcomputer wallpaper or better yet print it with yourlaser printer and post it on your corkboard. You can also appeal to your local churches if they canflash this image sometime during church service. In fact, you can do whatever you want with it. The idea is to reach as many people as possible by any means possible.

If by chance you find this appeal most sincere and youwant to take it further by mass distribution in theform of posters, flyers, billboards or whatsoever, please reply to junsepe@yahoo.com and I will find a way to provide you with a higher resolution copy.

Mabuhay tayo!

The Spaceflower Show Band

2007-02-09T09:03:00.001+08:00

MAP Management Men of the Year 2006

2007-02-07T11:10:00.000+08:00

02/06/07: Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (left), president and CEO of Ayala Corporation, shared a light moment with Dr. George S.K. Ty, Metrobank Group chairman, after both received the Management Men of the Year 2006 awarded by the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) in a ceremony held on 6 February 2007 at the Intercontinental Hotel Manila, in the financial district of Makati City, south of Manila. The prestigious award is bestowed by MAP on individuals in the business community or government for attaining unquestionable distinction in the practice of management and for contributing to the country's progress. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo/NPPA Images)

Slide Show

2007-01-17T13:38:00.000+08:00

Father and Daughter

2007-01-17T00:25:00.000+08:00

01/14/07: Photographed at Tahanan na Walang Hagdan in Cainta, Rizal. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

Ukay-ukay

2007-01-16T23:44:00.000+08:00

01/10/07: Ukay-ukay is the term for second hand clothes and shoes in Baguio City, Philippines. Goods came from Hongkong and the U.S. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

Visibility in a flash

2007-01-15T18:28:00.000+08:00

THE PHILIPPINE STAR 01/13/2007

Time is everything for professional photographer Voltaire Domingo. Camera in hand and flashbulb-ready, he captures memories in the time it takes to blink an eye: from picture book weddings to late-breaking news. In his line of work, the rule is simple: you blink, you lose.

Voltaire’s love affair with snapshots began after he picked up the finer points of photography from his dad. "My father was a government photographer for many years. I remember covering my first wedding as his assistant when I was just 12 years old," he recounts.

He learned early on that few professions are as intensely demanding as photography. While journalists have the luxury of putting pen to paper, a photojournalist needs to capture the story in a single shot at just the right moment.

"It can get pretty overwhelming. While you’re hunched over your camera to get a shot, you still have to be aware of everything that’s going on around you. You have to think ahead and anticipate your next photo op, even if your life is at stake," Voltaire says.

Voltaire’s home on the road is his pickup truck, which also serves as his base of operations.

As a member of the US-based Next Pictures Press Photo Agency (NPPA Images), he is always on call to cover events and late-breaking news anytime. Aside from his usual arsenal of photography equipment, he always carries his laptop, a portable office enhanced with a Super 3G-capable PC card, powered by Globe Visibility.

"With all the photographers in the country covering the same news, ang mahuli talo talaga," he says. "You have to be the first to send in your photo to the news desk or the wire agencies when stories break."

Using his Globe Visibility, he shows the portal online where professional photojournalists upload their photos, and editors can pick and choose who to banner on the front page of the newspaper the next day.

Globe Visibility is the first mobile Internet plan in the country that uses Globe’s 3G with HSDPA wireless network. This brand new network, also known as a hyper-charged version of 3G, hence, "Super 3G," has broken the 2Mbps speed barrier and surpassed the current HSDPA benchmark speed of 1.4-1.8 Mbps.

For Voltaire, this extra-support helps him keep pace with the changing demands of his chosen field. "With the advent of digital photography and the Internet, people have come to expect news reports immediately as events unfold. That means I have to get my pictures uploaded online almost instantly," he says.

Globe’s HSDPA technology is up to 25 times faster than an ordinary 56Kbps dial-up connec-tion and as much as six times faster than conventional 3G technology, which has a peak rate of 250Kbps. With Super 3G, Voltaire can upload a full CD’s worth of photos in just over a minute.

With the powerful cameras that Voltaire uses, it’s easy to amass hundreds of megabytes worth of high-resolution snapshots that would take forever to upload using a regular DSL line – if you could even find one in the field.

"Imagine covering fires and floods, but going hunting for an Internet café to send your pictures off right away?" he says. "At least sa Visibility, may instant Internet basta may signal."

Since Globe’s Super 3G technology runs on its nationwide cellular network, Voltaire can get on the Internet anywhere there is a cellular phone signal. In fact, Globe’s nationwide coverage means that he can surf the Internet without wires, without the inconvenience of cables or the limited area of a hotspot.

For people like Voltaire Domingo who capture memories in a flash, Globe Visibility is always on hand to make sure that they go where they’re needed in the blink of an eye.

To find out more about Globe Visibility, log on to www.betterthan3g.com.

Note: Article lifted from http://www.philstar.com/philstar/business200701154102.htm

To learn more about NPPA Images, please visit our website: www.NPPAimages.com

2nd World Pyro Olympic

2007-01-13T02:07:00.000+08:00

01/12/07: Fireworks from Canada lights up the sky during the 2nd World Pyro Olympics at the Manila Bay seaside Friday 12 January 2007 in Manila, Philippines. Ten countries including Poland, China, Australia, Germany, Denmark and the United States are taking part in the annual fireworks competition. (Photograph: Voltaire F Domingo / NPPA Images)

Mike Garisson

2006-12-04T17:09:00.000+08:00

12/03/06: Mike Garrison, General Manager of Dell International Services Philippine, was photographed while about to give a speech during Dell's Christmas Party held the Harbor Garden, Hotel Philippine Plaza in Pasay City, Metro Manila. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images for Media Meter)

Sitti Navarro

2006-11-19T15:57:00.000+08:00

11/18/06: Sitti Navarro sang live during the Universal Robina Corporation Flour Division Thanksgiving Dinner held at the Ballroom, Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila. Her album Cafe Bossa and Sitti Live just turned platinum. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images for Stratworks/URC)

EMERGENCE Exhibit at Ayala Museum

2006-11-10T23:45:00.000+08:00

11/10/06: More than a photographer or a businessman, Jaime Zobel is a thinker. He poses questions that challenge the mundane and then sets out to look for answers, or as often is the case, to create a solution. This time around, he asked a group of young artists: How does one bring art into a life of routine? EMERGENCE is photographer Jaime Zobel, interior designer Wilmer Lopez, figurative sculptor Jordan Mendoza and conceptual sculptor Reg Yuson, merging visions and artistic sensibilities to create living spaces infused with imagination. Zobel’s photography sets the standard, anchors the tone in the spaces. The original creations of Lopez, Mendoza and Yuson interplay, mesh, and connect with the artistic and emotional resonance that Zobel’s photography establishes. Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti once said, “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” In this case, EMERGENCE constructs a reality where aesthetic meets practicality and temper meets logic, and where a life of routine is a thing of the past. (Photographs: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images for Ayala Foundation/Gilas)

Note: Caption lifted from http://www.ayalamuseum.org/exhibitions_emergence.asp

Dee Anne Hora-Zobel

2006-10-25T12:36:00.000+08:00

10/25/06: Dee Anne Hora-Zobel is the chairperson of Enrique Zobel Foundation. Photographed at Shangri-la Makati, Ayala Center, Makati City, Metro Manila. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

Something you do not see everyday

2006-10-25T12:22:00.000+08:00

10/25/06: Catherine "Kitkat", wife of Ayala Corporation's Executive Managing Director Fernando Zobel de Ayala, photographing (using a camera phone) Habitat for Humanity International Board of Directors during a photo opportunity with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Vice President Noli de Castro. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

Habitat for Humanity

2006-10-24T14:58:00.000+08:00

10/23/06: The International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity held their regular meeting in the Philippines recently. They went to a project site in Taguig CIty, Metro Manila to help build, together with other volunteers, medium rise low-cost residental units. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

Home

2006-09-20T16:24:00.000+08:00

09/20/06: It is ironic that just a couple of hours after taking the photograph of jubilant children (below) when they learned that Gawad Kalinga will build them new homes, I saw this fire on my way back to Makati City. From EDSA in Makati City, it looked huge and near only to find out that it was located somewhere in Sta. Ana, Manila. About P5 million worth of properties were reported gutted in that fire along the river bank. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

09/20/06: Children of Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, Metro Manila jumps for joy when they learned that Gawad Kalinga will build them new homes which will later be called Globe-TM Community. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

Concerts

2006-08-21T21:13:00.000+08:00

01/26/07: The Spaceflower Show Band of Baguio City performed during the Dell Rocks Recruitment Concert held at the Central Plaza, Eastwood City, Libis, Quezon City, Metro Manila. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images for Dell/Media Meter)

12/03/06: Award-winning singer Bamboo performed live during the Dell's Christmas Party held at Harbor Garden, Hotel Philippine Plaza in Pasay City, Metro Manila. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images)

The Manhattan Transfer Live in Manila! (L-R) Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, Cheryl Bentyne, and Tim Hauser performed to thousands of fans in a one-night only concert at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila on July 7, 2006. The Grammy Award-winning group has been performing all over the world since it was formed in 1972. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo / NPPA Images for Globe Platinum)

1st Philippine Mt. Everest Expedition

2006-08-21T21:00:00.000+08:00

Leo Oracion (R), the first Filipino to reached the summit of Mt. Everest in Nepal on 17 May 2006, is accompanied by Erwin "Pastour" Emata, the second Filipino also to reached the highest peak in the world on 18 May 2006, received a heroes welcome on May 31 from its countrymen. Together with the 1st Philippine Mt. Everest Expedition team, they walked along Ayala Avenue in Makati City, the financial district south of Manila. Earlier in the day, they made a courtesy call to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacanang Palace. (Photograph: Voltaire Domingo/NPPA Images for Stratworks/FPMEE)

News Clippings 2006

2006-08-20T20:39:00.000+08:00

Portfolio 2005-2006 3

2006-08-20T18:15:00.000+08:00

Portfolio 2005-2006 2

2006-08-18T10:23:00.000+08:00

Portfolio 2005-2006 1

2006-08-17T18:30:00.000+08:00