Steel Buffaloes at Rest #2

Rice farmers wash the mud off their tractors, just as their fathers and grandfathers would have once done with their plough animals; behind them, a long day of ploughing the rain-filled paddy fields of Sammanthurai, in eastern Sri Lanka. October 2023.

^{• 24mm • f/8 • 1/125 • ISO250 • Canon R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •}

Sunday Morning Catch

Fish fresh off the boat, on Dehiwala Beach, Colombo. August 2023.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 • ISO160 • Canon R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •}

Colour Coordinated Pettah

4th Cross Street, Pettah. September 2023.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 • ISO1250 • Canon R6 & EF-S24/2.8 •}

Corner of Keyzer and 2nd Cross streets, Pettah.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 • ISO400 •}

Kadé Culture #2

Ratnam Road, Kochchikade, Colombo. September 2023.

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/80 • ISO1000 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

The Blessing of Rain #3

Roman Catholics pray in the rain on Gintupitiya Street, Colombo, during the Feast of Our Lady of Velankanni. This feast is a South Indian version of the Nativity of Mary, celebrated in the week of the 8th of September, the date believed to be the birthday of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 • ISO5000 on • Canon R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •}

The Blessing of Rain #2

Newham Square, Kochchikade, Colombo. September 2023.

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/160 • ISO1600 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

The Blessing of Rain

Jampettah Street, Kochchikade, Colombo. September 2023.

^{• 14mm • f/4 • 1/15 • ISO1000 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

The Waiting Sea

Talalla Bay, Sri Lanka.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 • ISO100 • 600D & EF-S24/2.8• circular polariser •}

December 26th 2022 marks eighteen years since the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004, when the Indian Ocean rose up and killed over 35,000 Sri Lankans in two massive waves (the second measured as high as 11m, in places). The country suffered the second highest number of deaths in the Indian Ocean (after Indonesia which, being proximate to the epicentre of the underwater quake that caused the tsunami, lost almost 200,000 dead and missing). Over half a million people were displaced in Sri Lanka, as almost 90,000 coastal homes and buildings were destroyed by the waves. Over 250,000 people are estimated to have died in minutes, in fifteen countries, from Southeast Asia to East Africa. In island nations like Sri Lanka, the sea would never be looked at quite the same again.

Rain or Shine #2

A surfer braves the southwest monsoon, at Weligama Bay. May 2022.

• 200mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 • ISO400 •

Monsoon Beach

Weligama Bay, Sri Lanka. May 2022.

^{• 18mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 • ISO100 •}