India. Mr Ashok Jain in his office. Mumbai.

Mr. Ashok Jain was welcoming and hospitable. he sits, comfortably, looking out onto the glare of the street.

Recent Travels....Shailabimbarama Temple, Dodanduwa

Last week a journey to Dodanduwa. Left Colombo by 5.30 and down the highway to turn off at Baddegana junction.

Shailabimbarama Temple has an extraordinary collection of temple murals/paintings. 

I was back in Colombo by 4 that afternoon.  More pictures can be seen on the web site. 

Mechanical Dragon Fly's, Arterial Cleansing, Phantom 'Tuk Tuks' and more..

Celebrating a first week anniversary of some maintenance of my own. An evening walk on Marine Drive.

Sri Lanka. Udappu festival - the fire walking on the last night ...

Along time ago in South Sulawesi...The Toraja.

It was many moons ago, 1989, working on a book, "Indonesia Voyage Through the Archipelago" with some truly great photographers. I think I was invited by mistake!

From overseas were

Abbas, Ping Amranand, Bruno Barbey, Ian Berry, Star Black, Rene Burri, Wendy Chan, Paul Chesley, Michael Freeman, Gerald Gay, George Gerster, Ara Guler, Bernard Hermann, Mike Hosken, Peter Hufgard, Richard Kalvar, Martin Kers, Leong Ka Tai, Leo Meier, Robin Moyer, Kal Muller, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Basil Pao, Eddy Posthuma de Boer, Raghu Rai, Guido Alberto Rossi, Dominic Sansoni, Mahendra Sinh, Hiroshi Suga, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Peter van der Velde, Steve Vilder, Mark Wexler, Mike Yamashita.

The Indonesian photographers were 

Back Tohir, Desi Harahap, Rio Helmi, Kartono Riyadi, Koes, Agus Leonardus, Andre Pribadi, Santoso Alimin, Fendi Siregar, Tara Sosrowardojo, and Andreas Darwis Triadi

My  assignment was to photograph the Toraja people of South Sulawesi. 

The publisher Didier Millet had kindly invited me to work on many publications... in Thailand, Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia.

I have had time today to dig a bit into my murky past, looking for pictures I thought had long disappeared. 

I found these this afternoon, on the eve of an anniversary I would rather forget.

Kali Amman Kovil at Wiharagala Estate near Haputale.

India. Rajasthani Women

India. The tailor and the sign for a laundry.

India. Vizag beach....

High Noon, Vizag beach. 

A view from my window. La Paz, Bolivia. Saturday evening.

The towering triple-peaked Mt. Illimani, which is always snow-covered

Lunuganga. A place to stay....The Glass Room.

Lunuganga. The country house & home of Geoffrey Bawa.

A view of the ponds at the south east corner of the property.
From the Sri Lanka stock photography web site www.threeblindmen.com

SRI LANKA. LUNUGANGA - the country home and garden of Geoffrey Bawa.

One of my all time favourite places - to visit, to stay, (the food is simple and excellent).
It is now open to the public for tours and stays. The following text is taken from www.geoffreybawa.com

Lunuganga is the garden residence of the eminent Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. Developed over a period of 50 years Lunuganga is about an hours drive from the capital Colombo. The garden, house and a series of villas occupy 15 acres of land, which overlook the Dedduwa lake and bird island sanctuary.

Geoffrey Bawa first acquired Lunuganga in 1948 and has used it ever since as a retreat, a place of contemplation integral to his architectural practice. The garden has also been an ongoing preoccupation in which Bawa has experimented, cultivated and developed his ideas about the relationship between landscape, architecture and space.