Archive for February 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
February went by fast and with it the greater part of winter’s darkness is gone. But cold and snow remain here in Bavaria in spite of the sometimes strong sunlight and the intense colors, and this is what I tried to transport in my march wallpapers.
That image also marks the transition from my 2.5 months Sri Lanka image series to, again, pictures from my immediate surroundings. Here too the end of winter’s darkness helps: the days offer hours of light again even for an office worker, and do not limit me to night captures or weekend imagery any more.
Tags:alps, apple tree, blue, calender, Hochkalter, mountains, sky, snow, wallpaper, winter
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Sunday, February 27th, 2011
When visiting one of the rainwater harvesting project sites, questions came up of how to supply those parcels with water, where there is only a hut with a thatched roof – in these places usually the most needy people live. After some discussion back and forth an archaic solution was brought up and displayed in a similarly archaic way: by drawing it with a stick in the sand.
On another topic: Tyler Monson has given me notice about a glitch in the post “More Things Green”: green the image was indeed, too green. I’ll correct this. Thanks, Tyler!
Tags:archimedes, communicating pipes, drawing, rainwater harvesting, tank
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 5 Comments »
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
This image might make a nice complement for “Tidiness”, here, albeit not as clear in its meaning.
Tags:broom, shoes, wall
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 4 Comments »
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Approaching Lady Manning Bridge, built by the British in common wealthy colonial times to connect Batticaloa town with Kallady, one has to pass a number of military checkposts, indicated by the camouflage tin sheets. Fortunately enough the lady’s back provided a shield for my camera which would have otherwise drawn unnecessary attention from the soldiers onto it. My friend had to learn this the hard way in Colombo, when security staff on the boardwalk outside of the American Embassy’s wall noticed him looking through the viewfinder… We were happy that they were content to get a photocopy of his passport.
Tags:bicycle, checkpost, lady
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
of the road. The president, then freshly re-inaugurated? Would Sri Lanka be a Muslim state, he probably would have to fear for his accumulated riches.
Tags:billboards, president, road work
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
This blog is somewhat deprived of words at the moment, and I felt somewhat sorry for this.
But discovering that some of the blogs I do cherish most are without words – give or take a quote and/or a heading, a filename, a date – I concluded that there’s no need to feel sorry. If my workload shifts, words may come again, but at the moment there are none.
Enjoy the images anyway – and don’t forget: You can see all of them large just by clicking on ‘em.
Tags:jeweller, Kattankudi, night, shop, street
Posted in Sri lanka | 3 Comments »
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Waiting for some others shopping is not a problem as long as I have a camera with me – even when I can’t do things along my own schedule and my pace, sometimes the images just flow in, like here in Kattankudi.
Tags:food stall, Kattankudi, night, street
Posted in Sri lanka | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
No words friday – comments still enabled, Thomas 
Tags:garden, house, village
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Around noon, when students leave school and usually are not too hard pressed to arrive at home, a foreigner with a big camera is a welcome event that usually leads to a lot of grimaces and giggling and curious chimping about the outcome of the picture-taking activities.
Tags:photographer, posing, students
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 14th, 2011
This is the just finished assembly hall in the small town of Oddaimavadi in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, about 20km north of Batticaloa. As this is a mainly Muslim village, the hall but also the superiors’ offices are painted and decorated green. Immediately the german translation of Liza’s lesson in ‘My Fair Lady’ came to my mind: In German, instead of ‘The Rain In Spain’ she has to rehearse ‘Es grünt so grün’, meaning ‘it greens so green’. Colorwise it’s almost overkill.
Tags:decoration, furniture, green, islam, muslim, Oddaimavadi, office, paint
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 8 Comments »
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Sometimes the differing nuances are already in the captured frame, so here again I needed only minimal adjusting in bibble5.
Tags:garage, man, street, woman
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 11th, 2011
An image that I felt a spontaneous affection for when reviewing. And for me it fell exactly in the frame, no corner or side that I’d like to crop away.
Tags:food stall, restaurant
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Another variety of a food stall in one of the Batticaloa side roads. Even shops that don’t sell alcohol try to put up fencings and grates to protect their goods.
Tags:facade, food stall, shop
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Found on Batticaloa Main Street, a place where at the moment the rainwater has flooded many shops. Have a look here at a BBC image collection. The number of refugees in makeshift camps meanwhile exceeds 320.000. But as both the number of TV cameras and the economic value are low, the world doesn’t even have a look.
Tags:flood, shop
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
5 years after Tsunami, the beach promenade of Batticaloa is all new and shiny. The only thing lacking are the tourists, who come only in smallest numbers, as infrastructure is still limited.
Update: As my hoster has copied this blog to a new machine with a different IP, som inconsistencies in posts and comments can happen. Withing maximum one week all changes in the DNS should have been propagated, until then I will try to keep the blogs in sync.
Tags:beach, repair, tsunami
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 7th, 2011
if such a playground is here in the right place. At least my kids would probably prefer to climb on trees, wade in creeks, run through the fields, play hide and seek in the bushes.
But taking into account that this area was probably only recently de-mined, it makes perfect sense. Don’t worry, profits in mine production were and are high, and supporting humanitarian organisations is a wonderful activity to deflect from the moneymaking and warfaring – on all sides.
Tags:landmines, playground, village
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Rural Reality in the village of Periyapullumalai, Sri Lanka, quite far away from our (made in China) style of life.
Tags:boy, concrete, drum, kid, toy
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Enjoy.
Tags:broom, net, sand, wall
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
Wordless Friday, okay?
Tags:Cat, family, house, village
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
It was only when the boys got distracted by viewing the images on the screen of my friend’s camera, that the little girl, easily the youngest of the group, was allowed to pose for the camera.
Tags:corrugated tin sheet, fence blind, kids, portrait
Posted in Batticaloa, Sri lanka | 4 Comments »
