sometimes i am just too shy. the owner of this food stall greeted me, as do most of the people you meet on the early morning streets in batticaloa, but for one reason or the other i refrained from asking if i could make a picture and went into a side street. only after 50m i changed my mind and went back, asked and of course was allowed to photograph (the term shooting is not appropriate in batticaloa as there is too much real shooting happening). and so i got my etude in rusty colors.