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Dancing Girl

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The Ballet School of Colombo, September 2022.

• 53mm • f/4 • 1/200 • ISO400 • Canon R6 & RF 24-105/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

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Ballet Class

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The Ballet School of Colombo, September 2022.

• 24mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO400 • Canon R6 & RF 24-105/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Shalini

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The Ballet School of Colombo, September 2022.

• 72mm • f/4 • 1/80 • ISO1000 • Canon R6 & RF 24-105/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

• 24mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO400 •

In the Eye of the Lord of Light

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The Hildegard Kapelle, Disibodenberg Monastery, in the Pfalz, Germany. Summer 2015. The chapel is named for the 12th century German Benedictine abbess and polymath, Hildegard von Bingen, who lived here for almost forty years.

Revised Defence

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A large wooden crossbow-type ballista in a bergfried* of the 13th century Burg Thurant. The German castle is sited above the village of Alken, in the Moselle Valley. Most of its building were destroyed in the 16th century War of the Palatine Succession (though this bergfried survived), and reconstructed in the early 20th century. The ballista seems to be a crude replica, with with a modern automobile leaf spring in place of a bow. Shot in April 2017.

*A bergfried is a tall tower in German medieval period castles. Its defensive function is similar to that of a keep or donjon in English or French castles. However, unlike a keep, a bergfried wassn’t designed for permanent habitation, and only occupied when under attack.

For the Queen of Stars

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A bed chamber in the Amer Fort’s Jai Mandir; also known as the Sheesh Mahal or Mirror Palace because of its exquisitely adorned walls and ceilings, covered with hand-painted panels of glass, foil, and precious stones. It is believed that one of the ranis so loved sleeping under the stars that the rajah (it is unclear which one, as the Sheesh Mahal was built and added to between the 16th and 18th centuries) had the walls studded with mirrors and jewels that would reflect lamplight and give the illusion of thousands of stars. Rajasthan, India, February 2012.

A Jâlî by Any Other Name

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Latticed marble screens, called jâlîs, in the 16th century Amer Fort’s Suhag Mandir, from which the ladies of the Rajput royal household, under purdah, would watch victory parades in the Jaleb Chowk, the fort’s outer courtyard, and the nearby Diwan-i-Aam, the public audience hall. February 2012.
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Door to the Past

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A window of unspecified age on display in the Gallery of Stone Antiquities in the Colombo National Museum.
A window of unspecified age on display in the Gallery of Stone Antiquities in the Colombo National Museum. Shot on assignment for ‘Serendib’, the inflight magazine of Sri Lankan Airlines. My photo story, ‘Katu Ge‘, ran in the October 2017 issue. Follow the link to read the full story.

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.