Barefoot – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:38:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The One That Got Away – Ruvin de Silva http://www.ashsmyth.com/the-one-that-got-away-ruvin-de-silva/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/the-one-that-got-away-ruvin-de-silva/#respond Sun, 02 Aug 2020 11:32:07 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3058 The Sri Lankan actor-director and documentary photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did.

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For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

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For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

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Here are the (brutally-abbreviated) highlights of those proceedings.

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For The Sunday Times (SL)

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damn bell and let me drink my
beer in peace, tourist.

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