Banca in the Bay, Philippines

Palms leaning over the sand, long fronds drawn down like fingers. A pale outrigger resting on glass-flat water, the bay opening past it to a line of green islands. Bright cloud, hot light. The kind of stillness that comes after the morning wind.

An original watercolour of a palm-fringed Philippine bay, painted on Arches HP 100% cotton. A banca — the country’s classic twin-outrigger fishing boat — sits on glass-flat water, low limestone islands beyond. The karst seascapes of the western Philippines are among the most photographed in Southeast Asia; this one keeps the scale small: a single boat, a leaning palm, a quiet morning bay.