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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, August 24, 2020

. The Challenger voyage report is in 48 volumes, which weigh over 400lb. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, November 22 1906 . In the Republic of Cameroon Guinness is thought to be an aphrodisiac. A search for ‘fat naked German man chasing pig’ did not match any image results. Bernard Lout was buried in […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged apparel, Bernard Lout, books, bookshelves, Cameroon, Challenger, Chrysippus, death, emus, England, finance, food, France, Germans, government, Greeks, Guinness, humour, machine guns, Nelson Evening Mail, news, nudity, pigs, quizzes, satire, science, sex, Testudines, the Falklands, the internet, vocabulary, Warren Buffett | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Tashiya de Mel

Sunday, August 23, 2020

The Sri Lankan environmental photographer and advocate talks about the greatest shot she never got… and one she did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, feature, interview, Journalism | Tagged dams, drones, environmentalism, Goethe-Institut, Instagram, Kalu Ganga Project, landscapes, Mannar, Pallegama, Parrotfish Collective, photography, rivers, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Talaimannar, Tashiya de Mel, the Mahaweli, travel, walking | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, August 17, 2020

. An architect named Firth was found at a Weymouth inquest to have shot himself in the side with a toy cannon while temporarily insane. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Tuesday, December 22 1908 . The SAS have killed some people in Afghanistan. The Veneziana pizza was invented in the 1970s by Pizza Express. In […]

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The One That Got Away – Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Sunday, August 16, 2020

The prolific Sri Lankan wildlife photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Tagged Bermondsey, big game, cameras, ecotourism, elephants, foxes, Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Imperial College, Jetwing Hotels, Kumar Sangakkara, Kuoni, Leicester Square, leopards, photography, Rukshan Jayewardene, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), The Camera Club, the Lonely Planet, whales, Yala | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Sebastian Posingis

Sunday, August 9, 2020

The globetrotting architectural photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Tagged air travel, Architectural Digest, architecture, Batticaloa, Dominic Sansoni, Elle Decor, Financial Times, flamingos, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, islands, Jaffna, Kalpitiya, photography, Richard Simon, Sebastian Posingis, serendipity, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), tennis, Thailand, the UK, tsunami, Vanity Fair | Comments (0)

Revision (after Keats)

Monday, August 3, 2020

No-one can usurp this height But those to whom the miniseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

Filed in Poetry | Tagged (after), Keats, TV | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Ruvin de Silva

Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Sri Lankan actor-director and documentary photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Tagged acting, Barefoot, beer, cameras, Colombo, Deshan Tennekoon, dogs, Enda Walsh, Facebook, family, fashion, Flickr, Galle Literary Festival, girls, HSBC, humour, Kilinochchi, Korn, money, Mount Lavinia, photography, Red Bull, Ruvin de Silva, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL) | Comments (0)

‘Cheese sandwich optional’

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Review of Lev Parikian’s cheerful and entertaining Into the Tangled Bank: In which our author ventures outside to consider the British in nature. — For Geographical

Filed in Journalism, review | Tagged Audis, Beethoven, birds, cricket, Darwin, Elliot and Thompson Limited, Etta Lemon, Gilbert White, John Clare, Lev Parikian, London, music, nature, non-fiction, RSPB, sandwiches, Scotland, spiders, the Arctic, the BBC, the British, the Thames, Wales, Walter Rothschild | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Prasanna Welangoda

Sunday, July 26, 2020

The Sri Lankan marketing manager and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Tagged Advancetown Lake, architecture, Australia, Brisbane, cameras, Canon, fashion, fireworks, food, hiking, hotels, Kotaku, landscapes, MMA, Natural Bridge, Negombo, photography, PR, Prasanna Welangoda, Queensland, smoking, snakes, social media, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), the Ekka, the Gold Coast, trees | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Deshan Tennekoon

Sunday, July 19, 2020

The Sri Lankan author, Fulbright scholar and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. TRIGGER WARNING: includes bird-poo references. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Tagged Americans, architecture, birds, cadjan, Dambulla, Deshan Tennekoon, editors, Everest, Fulbright Program, Galle Literary Festival, in-laws, mountaineering, photography, portraits, publishing, Red Cross, shit, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), swimming, Time Out, Trincomalee, UNICEF, Xbox | Comments (0)