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Coron Town at Night: Street Photography with the Fujifilm X100VI (Palawan, Philippines)

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Coron Town at Night: Street Photography with the Fujifilm X100VI (Palawan, Philippines)

Coron street life, one motorbike at a time

These photos were taken on one evening in Coron Town, on Busuanga Island in northern Palawan, during our late-November 2025 trip to the Philippines. I stood in one spot outside a small neighbourhood burger joint and let the street come to me: motorbikes carrying whole families, scooters with two or three riders, and the white and red tricycles that work as taxis all over Coron.

If you are planning the trip itself (where we stayed, which island-hopping tours we did and where we ate), read Coron: the hotel, the tours, the restaurants. This post is the photo story.

Sharing a bit of Coron’s local bike lifestyle by a neighborhood burger joint. I love how every bike photographed seems to tell its own story through the people and the things they carry.

Two people on a scooter passing a brightly lit burger joint at night in Coron town
Two riders on a motorbike passing the lit burger shop front at night in Coron
Family squeezed onto one motorbike in front of a burger joint at night in Coron
Couple on a white scooter riding past the burger joint on a Coron street at night
Child and adult on a motorbike silhouetted against the lit burger shop in Coron
Two passengers on a scooter passing the burger joint after dark in Coron
Three people on a red motorbike passing the lit burger shop in Coron at night
White tricycle taxi with passengers driving past the burger joint at night in Coron
Rider on an orange motorbike passing the burger shop front at night in Coron
Couple on a dark scooter in front of the lit burger joint in Coron
Family on a motorbike and pedestrians passing the burger shop at night in Coron
Three people sharing a scooter on a street outside a burger shop in Coron at night
Group riding a motorbike past the burger joint as a woman walks by in Coron
Two men on a motorbike passing the lit burger shop while a pedestrian walks past
Man in an orange T-shirt walking past a scooter outside the burger joint in Coron
Scooter riders passing shop fronts on a Coron street at night
Motion-blurred motorbike with passengers speeding past shops at night in Coron
Motion-blurred red tricycle taxi passing on a street at night in Coron

How these night shots were taken

All 18 frames were shot on a Fujifilm X100VI, the fixed 23 mm lens camera I travelled with until hand sanitiser killed it on the flight home from Japan. The settings, straight from the files:

  • Frozen riders (16 frames): f/2 or f/2.8, 1/500 s or 1/250 s, ISO 8,000 to 12,800. The lit shop front gave just enough light; the high ISO was the price of a fast shutter.
  • Motion blur (the last 2 frames): f/4 at 1/15 s, ISO 1,250–2,000, so the motorbike and the tricycle smear past the shops.
  • One spot, about 12 minutes: every frame was taken from the same place in roughly a dozen minutes. Busy streets do the work if you wait.

Would a phone do the same? That is the question behind my iPhone 18 Pro Max vs X100VI travel camera post. Night street scenes like these are exactly where a dedicated camera still earns its place in the bag.

Coron Town: practical notes

  • Where it is: Coron Town sits on Busuanga Island, the same island as the airport. Most visitors stay in or near town and leave by boat each morning for Coron Island and the lagoons.
  • Getting around: motorbikes and tricycles. Our hotel, The Funny Lion, was about five minutes (roughly 150 pesos) from Coron Town proper.
  • Where we ate: La Terrace Bistro Lounge Rooftop, Miso Korean BBQ and Amihan Bistro (where I found a gluten-free crêpe). Details in our Coron guide.
  • Next stop: from Coron we flew to El Nido, where Nacpan Beach turned out to be the beach of the trip.

Street photography etiquette

A street at night in a small town is people’s everyday life, not a set. Every frame here was taken from one spot by the roadside rather than by following anyone, and we chose frames where the riders are part of the scene, not portraits. On this blog we don’t publish close-up portraits of strangers.

Keep reading: Coron: the hotel, the tours, the restaurants · El Nido, Palawan

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