East Coast Essays: Pottuvil.

Colpetty. October 2016.

Panama. October 2016.

Komari. September 2016.

Pottuvil-Panama. September 2016.

Moonset. Arugam Bay. September 2016.

Ulle, Arugam Bay. September 2016.

Arugam Bay. September 2016.

Asho.

Photographed in October 2015.

Cannot wait to be reunited with this beauty in four days. 

It has been one amazing rotation around the sun with you Asha girl.

Love you always. 

Ulle, Arugam Bay. September 2016.

Ulle, Arugam Bay. September 2016.

Dilz. September 2016.

Dave-O Bubba. September 2016.

Arugam Bay. September 2016.

Pottuvil. August 2016.

Everybody Loves to Boogie.

Kudakallai. July 2014.

A Sadhu joins another to begin his morning prayers atop a rock at Okanda. July 2016.

Devotees of Lord Kataragama are gathering here in numbers before setting off on the final leg of their pilgrimage which will take them through Yala National Park to the town of Katagarama over a 7 day journey on foot. The pilgrimage is known as the Pada Yatra, and is observed by more than 20,000 pilgrims from around the island annually.

Portrait of a Swami.

Arugam Bay. June 2016.

Jerome Speldewinde. 2016.

Photographed in Arugam Bay.

Happy Belated Earth Day

My favourite tree, a Nuga Gaha (banyan tree) on the Pottuvil to Panama road, revisited. 

April 2016.

Yesterday at Panama Beach. 

Back in Arugam Bay for another season. Super excited to dive back in to work again!

Watch this space for more imagery as life unfolds in the East Coast over the next 5 months.  

Cross-section of the gopuram of the Arulhimu Sivasubramaniya Swami Kovil in Slave Island.

Colombo. April 2016.

"Vijaya"

Kalthota. March 2016.

My gorgeous cousin Shenalie Weerasekera relates a story, mirroring our great grandmother who watches over our dining table. 

Colombo. February 2016.

A happy back alley in Pettah. March 2016.

Engineers in charge of the incinerators used to destroy forfeited ivory. 

Galle Face Green, Colombo. January 26th 2016.

Members of the Sri Lankan Navy Band share a light moment before getting on stage to perform alongside the 

U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet Band, 'Pacific Ambassadors,' at the Goodwill Concert held at the Viharamahadevi Amphitheater last evening. 

Pettah People

A student exits the Hameed AL Husseinie College on Hussainiya Street.

Thurstan Road and its Trees

Sneak peeks of a few photographs from a personal assignment on Colombo's relationship with trees.

Florence & The Rottweilers

Eheliyagoda. March 2016.

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The happy residents of a home in Bambalapitiya volunteer a smile for the camera.

Colombo. January 2016.