A Buddhist monk walks meditatively along a concrete walkway through the rain forest to the Madakada Aranya Senasanaya, a monastery where monks meditate in caves in the hillside. Shot on assignment for Serendib magazine. My photo story, “Jungle Streams and Trails in Ingiriya“, runs in the December 2017 issue.
Colombo’s skyline-in-waiting, including the 68-floor Altair Building, still under construction, disappears into the storm clouds hurling 80km winds and 100mm of rain at southwestern Sri Lanka as it undergoes an Indian Ocean depression. November 30th, 2017.Continue reading “Heavy Skies”→
High above the Belihul Oya Valley, the abandoned Udaweriya Tea Factory sits as a forlorn reminder of the great heights the Sri Lankan tea industry has fallen from. As the country’s tea industry consolidates into larger corporations, many smaller tea plantations have been absorbed, and their now redundant factories abandoned. Shot on assignment for Serendib magazine. My photo story “Discover Belihuloya“ runs in the November 2017 issue.
The foreground of this photograph demonstrates Sri Lanka’s problem with plastic pollution. Even the most remote and uninhabited beaches are not free of discarded plastic. On the west coast of Sri Lanka, August 2017.
Bambarakanda, Kalupahana, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. Shot on assignment for Serendib magazine, which features my photo story, “Discovering Belihuloya“, in the November 2017 issue.
Looking west across the spectacular Ohiya Gap from the World’s End Lodge. The Ohiya Gap is a broad valley, dropping southeast from the Horton Plains plateau to the southern foothills of the Central Highlands. The World’s End Lodge sits below the Haputale Ridge, on the northeast side of the gap. Shot on assignment for Serendib magazine. My photo story, “Discovering Belihuloya“, runs in the November 2017 issue.
Designed by WG Smithers and constructed by Wapchie Marikar, the Colombo National Museum opened to the public in 1877. Since then, the building has more than quadrupled in size, with new wings being added in the first quarter of the 20th century. The grounds remain a green haven in the city, with the Natural History section now having its own museum at the far end of the open space. Shot on assignment for Serendib magazine which featured my photo story on the museum, “Katu Ge“, in the October 2017 issue.
Bambarakanda (Bumblebee Hill) Falls is Sri Lanka’s tallest waterfall at 263m; it is fed by the Kuda Oya which originates in the heights of the Horton Plains. Shot on assignment for Serendib magazine. My photo story, Discovering Belihuloya, runs in the November 2017 issue.
A kitesurfing instructor, at the Kalpitiya Lagoon, on the west coast of Sri Lanka. Many of the instructors sport heavy protection against the harsh sun and sand. Shot on assignment for Serendib, the inflight magazine of Sri Lankan Airlines. My photostory on kiteboarding at Kalpitiya, “Wind Riders“, ran in the September 2017 issue.
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