Small wonders
Each time Bienvenido Gutierrez fixes his lens on his subjects, he practically embraces them as he gets face to face with the environment to provide poetic justice to nature’s pint-sized perfections. Benjie, as he prefers, is a retired geologist who claims to have been intrigued by photography for as long as he can remember. However, he then seemed to have no choice but to only dream about fulfilling his interest in camerawork due to lack of funds and the rarity of learning tools at a time when cameras were simple yet pricey analog devices. Eventually, Benjie fulfilled his interest for photography at the dawn of the digital age. As most current photographers would, Benjie first got a basic digital camera. “The digital method has simplified the creative process for me, in past years, as I have told, I did not have the resources to fulfill my dreams using film.” Fall [...]