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My mother Barbara, at work in her home.

Don Arunolis de Silva Wickremasinghe.

This is Christy Wickremasinghe's grand father, and he thinks the picture must have been taken in about 1918 or 1919.

by Christy Wickremasinghe.

This picture was taken by Christy at Buttuwa bungalow, Yala, in 1960.
Christy (standing on the right) accompanied Leonard Woolf on his visit to the park. On Woolf's left, A.S.A.Packeer, Deputy Warden of Wildlife. Yes, his Leica was placed on a tripod.

Candle lit vigil for tsunami, Colombo.

Kids in Colombo at a candle lit vigil for the victims of the tsunami.

India. Nagapattinam.

This is a picture taken early last year at the south Indian port of Nagapattinam. Most of the large trawlers at this busy fishing harbour had been washed up on shore and very badly damaged by the tsunami. On my last visit there, the fourth in one year, it was great to see most of the boats back at sea and the port busy again.

Saturday 28th January 2006.

Saturday morning. 28/1/2006 Ahungalla.

All Hung up...

Kevin is cool.

Shooting the Shooter.

This is Timothy Seneviratne.
Timothy is also a photographer. He has a great eye, and makes middle aged people like myself nervous.
I often feel I have become staid and boring in most of the pictures I take.
It is exciting for me to meet Tim who has a fresh eye. He is also a film maker. Check him out.
He has has funny things in his bag.

Reza. Photographer. Colombo. 24th Janaury 2006

Reza was born in Iran but now lives in Paris. Last night we had the pleasure of seeing a film on his work for the National Geographic. A gentle but strong soul, he is here in Sri Lanka to try and launch a magazine for children.

He is a brilliant photographer.

Christy Wickremasinghe.

I met Christy in the home of Mahen Vaithianathan. Mahen is now dead. Mahen was fun, outrageous, had great music, could be very caustic and often threw us all out of his home at Charles Circus in Colpetty. We used to call him the Ring Master. One mad evening, three friends watched Mahen and Chitrasena dance together; they were quite mad, and Mahen's trousers nearly fell down. His trousers were always nearly falling down.
Christy is a gentle man who went to school at Trinity College in Kandy. When he was 14 a school outing had him walking from Tissamaharama to Katargama, through the Yala Park and up onto the East Coast. School excursions now take you to soft drink factories...
Christy knows about elephants, lived in a tent, drank scotch, and wore an amude when he felt like it. Today he brought me a picture of himself and Leonard Woolf taken at Buttuwa in Yala.
Christy dropped in today and enjoyed meeting Kevin Clogstoun. I hope one day we will see the suprb pictures of Christy that Kevin took today.
Long live Christy!

Sri Lanka. Negombo. Fishing trawlers.

Sri Lanka. Negombo. Sunday 22nd January

Fishy Stuff. Negombo on Sunday 22nd

Dr. Weerakone of Negombo. Doctor & photographer.

Eric Solheim, a few hard days ahead.

Burns and Solheim... at prayer? in hope?

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Robert Burns and Norwegian Special Envoy, Eric Solheim.

Kevin Clogstoun. Friend and photographer.

One more from Chitrasena Dance academy, Colombo.

Dance, at the Lionel Wendt Theatre, Colombo.

Times of Ceylon. 1932 the Christmas Number.

Vajira.

Upekha and Vajira

Vajira, family & principal dancers

Chitrasena Academy. Vajira at rehearsal, Thursday afternoon.

Thaji, Chitrasena's grand daughter, at rehearsal for the dance recital this weekend in Colombo.

Isabella.

Sri Lanka. Fernando House, Panadura.

Sri Lanka. Temple at Panadura.

India. near Kanyakumari. Fisherman repairing his net.

Ceylon. Jailiani, near Balangoda.

Ceylon coast line. south, just blue.

Barbara and Olivia in Negombo.

My little cousin Tara.

Jan Prins.