Lino Photography

the ruins

The structure of The Ruins is of Italianate architecture with neo-Romanesque columns, having a very close semblance to the facade of Carnegie Hall in New York City. In New England, they often were homes to ship’s captains. A belvedere, facing west, affords a beautiful view of the sunset in a glassed-in sunroom with bay windows.The mansion was built in the early 1900’s by the sugar baron, Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson (1865-1948) and was home to his unmarried children with his first wife, Maria Braga (+1911), a Portuguese from Macau.

The mansion was the largest residential structure ever built at that time and had in it one of the finest furnitures, chinawares, and decorative items, as the father of Maria Braga was the captain of a ship that sailed across Europe and Asia and would cart with him these items. One of their daughters maintained a beautiful garden of lilies in and around the 4-tiered fountain fronting the mansion, all brought in from abroad.

One of the sons supervised the construction of the mansion making certain that the A-grade mixture of concrete and its pouring was precisely followed.The mansion met its sad fate in the early part of World War II when the USAFFE (United States Armed Forces in the Far East), then guerilla fighters in the Philippines, burnt the mansion to prevent the Japanese forces from utilizing it as their headquarters. It took days of inferno to bring down the roof and the two-inch wooden floors.To this day, the 903 square meter structure still stands tall amidst sugar plantation and continues to awe both local and foreign tourists. Truly, a picture-perfect backdrop and a magnificent sight to see..

the ruins in Infrared

from the inside looking out

the ruins in IR black and white

The RUINS is open from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Mondays through Sundays including holidays. The restaurant serves Mediterannean food and operates from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. They opened an 18-hole Mini-Golf Course as a recreational fun activity for the whole family. The RUINS is now accessible from the Bata area in Bacolod City. Upon reaching the bottling plant of PEPSI, turn east. About 600 meters away, you will see a cellsite above a 2-story building on the left. Opposite that building you will see a big sign that says ‘THIS WAY TO THE RUINS’. You will enter that narrow street leading to Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens. Follow the small red and yellow signs on the electrical posts which will lead you all the way to The RUINS.

Magandang araw ng huwebes sa lahat, narito ang aking bahagi para sa tema ng litratongpinoy para sa linggong ito…”Sisidlan” (vessel)

ang drum

Ito po ay aking kuha nung nakaraang Canon Photo marathon sa mall of asia complex.  Nagustuhan ko lang ang mga linya na nagawa ng haligi at ng mga anino, kaya hayun at pumitik ang camera ko.  Tyinempuhan ko lang na may dadaan sa ilalim ng mga anino, at hayun si manong, may tulak tulak na drum…

Maraming salamat sa pagbisita… Happy LP mga kasama…

“press me”

Magandang araw mga kalitratista, narito ang aking bahagi para sa linggong ito ng litratongpinoy na may temang “pindot”

Yan ang power button ng aming TV, universal symbol na yang bilog na may gitla sa gitna bilang simbolo ng power button ng kahit ano mang bagay na may kuryente. 

Happy LP mga kasama.