Saturday, March 25, 2006
On the Road
Going on Holiday! To Thailand next week. I have given up backpacking and will be gadget shopping and eating gourmet food hopefully.
Batti Lagoon is always a great spot to take photos, on an evening stroll with my colleague the other day I snapped these…..
The fishermen had a small haul of prawns and were disappointed by their catch. They offered us a boat ride too… but I’m not one to sit in little boats with expensive cameras
Zehra and Emma stroll through Ampara in the cool of a Sunday evening…. all the world comes out onto the street to watch the world pass, chat and smile….
Birds birds birds…. a pair of Egrets, the male in Breeding Plummage… he’s pining for the fjords……
Weird…. check out Cloud Appreciation
Its a dirty job, but someones gotta do it….
This juvenile Tern will fly to Europe next year….
Thursday, March 23, 2006
No More Tears Sister
It doesn’t seem to be available on DVD, but if anyone knows where to get a copy in Colombo let me know….
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
Kalmunai Beach
Some fishermen use nets, huge nets, which they pull in by hand from the beach….
I’ve no idea how they share the profits or who gets paid or who just joins in to help
But this guy… really seemed to be the leader, and had a hell of a strong looking back….
Thursday, March 02, 2006
The Great Purple Flower, Ladybird and Green Background Debate
Well, not really a debate, more a conversation, or potentially a discussion, that’s if anyone is bothered by Purple Flowers, Ladybirds and Green Backgrounds.
Any way, it all started long long ago (this afernoon) in a far off city (Kinshasa) where Mr. Fred (see link on the right) sent me a comment on flickr about this ……
A cropped image I took of a beautiful purple flower on a sand dune in Pottuvil that happened to have a little red ladybird on it with …. shock horror… no spots. I had cropped the photo from this……
Now Fred thinks I should have further cropped the first photo to concentrate on the flower and ladybird…. I quite liked the elongated effort though. But when I looked at the uncropped image (above) I thought- “maybe it didn’t need cropping at all, omg I’m soooo confused, film photography was never this hard, just took the film to Boots and stuck it in an albumn etc. etc.”
So Dear Readers (i.e. Pauline from Upper Piddleton, Devon (or is it Dorset?)), what do you think? Should I have cropped more? Should I have not cropped at all? Or should I just have stuck with the first photo I took…….
Please help me sleep better and post an opinion.
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