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Restricted Flavours

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/img_0845.jpg — Sliced mango, topped with buffalo curd and kitul honey. Mangoes have featured prominently in my diet these past weeks, as part of breakfast and as dessert. Like last year, the harsh and interminable round-the-clock curfew coincides with the mango season and, again, I find myself living on a property blessed with a mango tree. Last year, we had more mangoes than we could eat, giving them away to any takers before they rotted; and, it’s been much the same this time as well. Luckily, this is one of my favourite fruits; but I’m beginning to associate the taste of mango with oppression and hardship. Sri Lanka, 1st June 2020. Day 12 of the lockdown.

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Light #2

May 27, 2021 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/img_0850.jpg — Paper Vesak lanterns in a locked down suburb of Colombo. May 2021.

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Door to the Universe

January 21, 2021 David Blacker1 Comment

McCallum Road Book Shops. A second-hand bookshop on McCallum Road, in the Maradana area of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, opening for business after sixty-eight days of lockdown. — A second-hand bookshop on McCallum Road, in the Maradana area of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, opening for business after sixty-eight days of lockdown. May 2020.

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Lockdown 2.0

October 30, 2020January 8, 2021 David BlackerLeave a comment

Image shows A taxi driver in Colombo, behind his home made isolation booth. — A taxi driver in Colombo, behind his home made isolation booth. Sri Lanka, 29th October 2020.

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Quarantined Fruit

May 27, 2020June 6, 2020 David BlackerLeave a comment

Quarantined Fruit #2 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com — Apples bought from a door-to-door vendor in Colombo are washed and left outside for several hours, before being taken indoors, to kill any possibility of coronavirus infection.

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Class Lockdowns & Freedoms

May 15, 2020October 28, 2020 David Blacker2 Comments

Lockdown by Class #3 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com — A liquor store remains firmly shut in a Colombo suburb, even as the Sri Lankan government announced a limited resumption of alcohol sales as part of its relaxation of anti-pandemic regulations.

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Corona Vesak

May 8, 2020December 31, 2020 David Blacker4 Comments

Colombo, Sri Lanka. 8th May 2020: day 49 of the lockdown.

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Fish Mongers, Colombo, Sri Lanka

May 7, 2020June 7, 2020 David BlackerLeave a comment

The Fish Monger #2 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com — Fish mongers sell seafood in a southern Colombo suburb under lockdown. The young man on the left is a tattoo artist from Hikkaduwa, one of the country’s most famous tourist towns, forced now to sell fish to make ends meet. For many others, however, opportunities such as this are few. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 7th May 2020: day 48 of the lockdown.

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Queuing for Holy Water, Temple of the Tooth, Sri Lanka

May 4, 2020June 7, 2020 David BlackerLeave a comment

Queuing for Holy Oil, Temple of the Tooth by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com — Shot for The New York Times piece, An Island Nation that is Best Savored Slowly, which ran in the Frugal Traveler column on 30th January 2019.

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“Elolu! Elolu! Eloluuuuuuuu!”

May 1, 2020June 7, 2020 David BlackerLeave a comment

Fruit & Veg Delivery #4 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com — Mayday 2020: day 42 of the lockdown.

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