Sunday, April 04, 2010

Sri lanka. Mechanical Rice Harvester. near Buttala.


6 comments:

Kirigalpoththa said...

Those combined harvesters are called 'Tsunami' machine by the locals. - Nothing is left once that 'thing' is rolled over a field.

Dominic Sansoni said...

Yes, a wonderful name, and they call the machine that just harvests (but does not thresh) a BUTHAYA!

Kirigalpoththa said...

Another good name :D

dev wijewardane said...

We definitely have a way with words!

like the back drop of the first shot.

Chook said...

Dominic - help! I am trying to contact you re research I am doing on the period that Australian artist Donald Friend spent in Sri Lanka with Bevis and Geoffrey Bawa and Barbara Sansoni. I am looking at making a documntary on his time there.

Dominic Sansoni said...

Please email me on dominic@threeblindmen.com