I just got back from Sri Lanka about 5 days ago. Beautiful place, people and culture. As with any tourist area you visit in cities, there are bound to be bad experiences with touts and people who will try to scam you of a dollar or two, but the reason I am writing this blog post is to share some images---shot on my mobile phone---mobile photography, iphoneography, androidography or which ever name it goes by. Of course I brought along the good old Minolta plus a little extra: Minolta Autocord.
Sri Lanka is an island country called the 'Pearl of the Indian Ocean' because of its natural beauty. It is also known as 'The nation of smiling people'; I can attest to that. You can walk with a smile carved into your face for an hour and almost everyone will be smiling back... maybe they just think of me as a crazy smiling man. They have 8 Unesco World Heritage sites---a big fucking deal if you don't mind my french. So, I enjoyed and had a wonderful time snapping away.
I tried to use my mobile phone as a restriction for certain times just to shake myself off the comfort zone. I have a couple of images that I really like.
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| Sri Lankan Rail runs along the sea in the east coast |
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| A view of their train interior |
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| Man on top of Galle Fort Wall |
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| Sri Lankan fisherman |
There are more, but since I was rotating between a film SLR and my mobile phone, I could not shoot a cohesive series on the mobile phone. Yup, lame excuse, but true. A shameless plug, but you can follow me on instagram:
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