Semi Retired Foamer

Thursday, 5 May 2022

LITEX MARKET QC - 08-02-2010

This blog entry is just a shortish one.

To be honest, I have been quick slack of late and have just been scrounging around the latest cataloged files for something relevant. At the moment I am slowly progressing through thousands of images from 2010.

Litex is a location along Commonwealth (Quezon City), around the busy intersection with Batasan Road.

Apart from the popular markets located there, it is a busy transport hub, with people transferring between buses, jeepneys, and the swarms of local trikes serving areas around locales like Payatas.

What photographer couldn't greatly enjoy photographing around Manila markets?

So much going on, so much colour.

There are very few product types that you won't find somewhere in Litex Markets.

Really good bargains can be had.

Litex Markets is one of those locations that you are often issued warnings about.

However, I have yet to experience an issue.

Touch wood.

Jeepneys.

Always a great photographic subject inside and out.

Normally all our visits to Litex are part of a run to or from Payatas, meaning a tricycle ride down Batasan Road and Ilang Ilang.

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Video: Litex to Evers on a traditional jeepney.

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Monday, 21 March 2022

THE KING REVISITED.

I know, I know, I've been a bit hopeless with posts here of late. I've actually been spending most of my time cataloguing some 5000 shots from Philippine trips from 2007 till 2010.

Despite this, I've been attempting to keep up with the push to remove the iconic Jeepney from the streets of the Philippines. There are, of course, those who welcome this move, but then there are those like me that will greatly miss the heart and soul of Manila (and elsewhere).

DDS-313 (Built 1984) - This oldie was found down Sto Nino Street in Brgy Payatas A in Quezon City.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Having long felt this day would come, I have always endeavoured to capture as many of this on photo/video as I possibly could during my stays there.

DFF-293 (Built 1987) - At the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City.

I am told that jeepneys used in the UP Campus have a colour coding system, the colours appearing on the roof. In this case the colour code is green.

Photo: Brad Peadon

TWA-526 PVF-616 - Brgy Holy Spirit (Commonwealth, Quezon City).

Photo: Brad Peadon

DHD-481 'Palibhasa 2000' (Built 1990) - Roaming around Ermita in 2007.

Photo: Brad Peadon

NXY-773 'Nene & Nestor' - Roaming around Ermita in 2007.

Photo: Brad Peadon

DHD-481 - Roaming around Ermita in 2007.

Photo: Brad Peadon

NVW-682 'Dear Lord' - Roaming around Ermita in 2007.

No shortage of jeepney around Ermita back then.

Photo: Brad Peadon

NYA-592 'Johnny Jr' - Somewhere in Manila back on my first visit.

Photo: Brad Peadon

PYS-734 'Crew Saver' - Roaming around Sta Cruz in 2007.

This was a particularly interesting jeepney for me, bringing together my interests in the jeepney, as well as the Titanic.

Photo: Brad Peadon

PYF-848 'D'Expert' - Roaming around Sta Cruz in 2007.

Photo: Brad Peadon

PYZ-684 'Acapulco' - Roaming around Ermita in 2009.

Photo: Brad Peadon

PYW-270 'Bing Bong' - Roaming around Ermita in a rather attractive green and yellow livery.

Photo: Brad Peadon

PYZ-744 'Tony Lyn' - Was another particularly stunning looking jeepney. Some of the artwork is truly spectacular, and I feel it will be greatly missed if replaced by those ghastly things that seem to be 'incorrectly' referred too as a jeepney. They are nothing like 'The King'.

Photo: Brad Peadon