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Temple of the Water God

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I believe that water is the closest thing to a god we have here on Earth.”

— Alex Z Moores Living in Water

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The Randenigala Reservoir, surrounded by the jungles of the Rantembe Reserve. December 2018. If water is the one true god of our planet, then the reservoirs we’ve built over millennia must be its greatest temples.

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Mountain in the Jungle

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Vegetable gardens, tea plantations, waterfalls, and jungle, climb layer upon layer, into the sky. Dedugala, on the way from Kegalle to Nawalapitiya, in May 2018, to shoot ‘Mountains in the Jungle’, which ran in the June issue of Serendib, the inflight magazine of Sri Lankan Airlines.

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Morning Over the Victoria #2

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Looking south from the Teldeniya Rest House. A view I have never tired of since I first saw it, twenty-five years ago. Below the broad expanse of water lie the ruins of the old town of Teldeniya, drowned when the Hulu and, neighbouring, Mahaweli river valleys were flooded in 1985 to create the Victoria Reservoir. This photograph was shot as part of a road trip piece, ‘The Temple of War‘, that appeared in the April 2016 issue of Explore Sri Lanka.

Tea View

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Morning on a tea plantation in Bagawantalawa, in the Central Highlands, as seen from the window of a small 'line house'.
Morning on a tea plantation in Bagawantalawa, as seen from the window of a small ‘line house’; the plantation-provided quarters of a tea plucker and her family. Central Highlands, Sri Lanka. February 2014.

The Victoria in the Dry Season

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A misty morning on the Victoria Reservoir, shot on film in February 1996, from the Teldeniya Rest House.
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Living in the Pink #3

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A stucco-exterior Portuguese fazenda-style home overlooking the Mahaweli Valley, close to Digana, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. March 2016.

Tea & Vegetables

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Tea plantation workers’ “line house”, surrounded by the tea and vegetable fields that sustain them. 
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Climate Crisis in the Highlands #4

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A fellow photographer, Christian Hutter, walks with our guide across the dry bed of the 372-square kilometre Samanalawewa, close to Belihuloya, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. 
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Dawn in the Valley

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First light on a tea plantation in Bogawantalawa, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. February 2014.
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