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Breakfast in Pettah #9

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A potential customer checks his resources before ordering breakfast from a stall on New Moor Street, in Hulftsdorp. October 2022.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 • ISO200 • R6 & RF 35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

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Young Boy, Gin Oya, Waikkal

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Small fishing communities dot the banks of the Gin Oya and its surrounding network of ancient canals, from where they venture out into the Indian Ocean (in small boats like this upturned one) to fish, as they have done for perhaps thousands of years. Shot on assignment for Explore Sri Lanka. My photo story, Waterworld Waikkal, ran in the December 2015 issue.

Tea & a Biscuit at the Hole in the Wall

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A man has a mid-morning snack on Old Moor Street.
A mid-morning snack at a little streetside ‘kadé’ which is probably a spare room of someone’s home. Old Moor Street, Colombo, Sri Lanka. September 2020.

*shot with an M6MkII and 15-45mm/3.5-6.3 lens, provided by Canon/Metropolitan Sri Lanka.

Rhythmic Work #2

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Sri Lankan Drum Makers, Battaramulla by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
In his workshop in Battaramulla, close to Colombo, Nimal Wickramasiri, a master drum maker, works on a traditional Sri Lankan Yak bera, its body a section of hollowed out coconut tree. Shot on assignment for Serendib, the inflight magazine of Sri Lankan Airlines. My photo story, “A Beat of the Ages“, ran in the December 2016 issue.
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Monsoon Encounters #2

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Monsoon Encounters #2 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Sri Lanka isn’t called Serendip for nothing. Anything can happen here; even encountering a visiting Veddha on the streets of Kandy. Shot on assignment with Anuradha Perera and Shermaine Willis, for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy in October 2018.
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Drummer, Alawala, Sri Lanka #4

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Drummer, Alawala, Sri Lanka #4 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
A drummer — and drum-maker — tests a freshly made geta bera, a traditional Sri Lankan drum made of wood and animal hide. Next to him stands his own, well-used geta bera, a dawula, and the unfinished bodies of several tablas. Shot for my photostory, “A Beat of the Ages”, which appeared in the December 2016 issue of Serendib magazine.

Flutist, Sri Maha Bodhiya

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Flutist, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Shot on assignment in Anuradhapura, for Serendib the inflight magazine of SriLankan Airlines. My story, ‘The First Kingdom of Lanka‘, ran in the February 2017 issue.

Drummer, Alawala, Sri Lanka

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“…He tries out various beats with his palms, his fingers, and the kadippuwa – a drumstick – the sound is almost hair raising, like the heartbeat of Lanka, racing and slowing and then racing again, unbroken through the ages.”

A drum maker tunes a freshly made dawula, a traditional Sri Lankan drum. Next to him stands his own well-used geta bera, as well as several tabla bodies awaiting varnishing and finishing. Shot on assignment for Serendib, the inflight magazine of SriLankan Airlines. My story on traditional drum making, A Beat of the Ages, appears in the December 2016 issue. Check it out when you fly SriLankan this month, or follow the link.

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