Not far away from the place where I discovered the snowy peaks for this month’s wallpaper there is the parking lot for the skiing area. Now, transporting skiers and catering them is not a lucrative business per se any more, so numerous events have to be invented and executed, until the last tiny remembrance bit…
I love the stark contrast of the technical shapes against the deep blue sky and the harmonious forms in the snow-background.
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…
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…
This image might make a nice complement for “Tidiness”, here, albeit not as clear in its meaning.
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…
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.
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…
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.
No words friday – comments still enabled, Thomas 😉
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.
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’…
Sometimes the differing nuances are already in the captured frame, so here again I needed only minimal adjusting in bibble5.
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.
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.
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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…
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…
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…
Rural Reality in the village of Periyapullumalai, Sri Lanka, quite far away from our (made in China) style of life.
Enjoy.
Wordless Friday, okay?
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.
Next month’s wallpapers are available as usual from here. I found this scenery in one of the smaller alleys of Galle Fort, the former Dutch fortress that had secured that strategic port. Nowadays instead of sailors the tourists are welcome guests, but in the monsoon time of last November we walked pretty much alone there.…
Found in Batticaloa downtown. Sometimes all the shapes seem to fall right into place.
Maybe the most unexpected encounter during my traveling through Sri Lanka where those caskets on the platform of Batticaloa train station. As the east coast companies offer substantial lower prices for finishing and decorating, it pays for Colombo funeral parlors to send the casks on two 12h+ train transports to Batticaloa. In comparison to the…