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The Doomed Giants of Anuradhapura

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Sunrise over the Basawakkulama Tank, believed to be Sri Lanka’s oldest reservoir, built in 400BC, against the backdrop of the Ruwanwelisaya and, faintly in the distance, the massive broken Jetawanaramaya, both over 2,000 years old. The tree silhouetted against the morning is one of many that line the tank’s retaining bund. For perhaps a century or more, these broadly spread giants have sheltered farmers, workers, schoolchildren, and the occasional photographer, using the bund as a footpath into Anuradhapura. When I took this picture in January 2017, while on assignment for Serendib magazine, the trees were also home to rock squirrels, numerous nesting birds, and families of grey langurs. But sadly, it has now been reported that the government has begun felling these ancient trees because they are believed to be damaging the bund with their great roots. The perspective they have given to one of the most iconic views of Anuradhapura will be the least of the losses their deaths will bring.

• 18mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 • ISO100 • 600D & EF-S18-200/3.5-5.6 •

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The Horizon of Our Hope*

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Dawn at Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 • ISO100 • Canon 5DMkIII & EF 50/1.4 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

*“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.”

— Charles Lindbergh

Sunrise, Panama

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Sri Lanka, May 2022.

• 50mm • f/2.8 • 1/8000 • ISO100 • Shot on a Canon EOS 5DMkIII & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

From Darkness to the Light

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Happy New Year, everybody! Water lilies (Nymphaea nouchali) bloom from the depths of the Maminiyawa Tank, close to Kekirawa, in north-central Sri Lanka. Shot on assignment for Explore Sri Lanka. My photo story, ‘The Road to Ritigala‘, ran in the March 2016 issue.

Water Therapy #4

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Shermaine Willis, Kandy, October 2018.

Gym Work, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka

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Shot on assignment for Smart Media and Gateway College, in November 2018.

Water Therapy #6

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Shermaine Willis, shot in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in October 2018.

Water Therapy #5

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Shermaine Willis, Kandy Sri Lanka. October 2018.

Water Therapy

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Shermaine Willis, shot on assignment for Ashraff Associates. Kandy. Sri Lanka, October 2018.

World’s End Lodge, Sri Lanka #5

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Terraced gardens fall away from the Haputale Ridge in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. In the far distance, beyond the Ohiya Gap is the near vertical Kuragala Escarpment. Shot in September 2017.