Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
STUDIO TIMES BULLETIN - OCTOBER 2011
Ancient Stone Bridge Mahakandarawa, Anuradhapura
Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
The bridge is 10 feet broad and about 5 ½ feet above the Kanadara oya. Well-preserved stone posts and slabs can still be seen. It is off the 59th mile on the Mihintale-Kahatagasdigiliya road.
- Handbook for the Ceylon Traveller, a Studio Times publication, 1983
Kanabisogalge, Block III, Yala National Park
Photography-Nihal Fernando
North-west of Yala’s coastal strip, 22 miles by a few miles inland, lies the Yala Strict Natural Reserve – 111 square miles between the rivers Menik ganga and Kumbukkan oya. A rocky outcrop runs along its northern rim. Thence Dematagala rises a thousand feet above the plain, Talagurunela eight hundred and Mandala five hundred. The whole range is full of caves where successfully lived Old Stone Age, New Stone Age and modern man. The walls of a lime-wahsed cave still gream bright on Mandagala. It was the cave of the blind mountain queen – the Kanabisogalge. The leopard, the liard and the bear keep her court …
Who was she? Was she king as she was fair? Did Love to her eyes repair to help him in his blindness, and help’d, left her – sightless there?
- The Wild, The Free, The Beautiful by Nihal Fernando, a Studio Times Publication. Words by Robert Silva, 1986
Saturday, September 17, 2011
IMAGES OF SRI LANKA - BIRDS
Wilpattu National Park - Photography-Christopher Silva
Minneriya National Park - Photography-Christopher Silva
Serpent Eagle, Pidurangala - Photography-Christopher Silva
Monday, September 12, 2011
STUDIO TIMES BULLETIN - SEPTEMBER 2011
Connarus monocarpus. S: Radaliya, T: Chettupulukodi - Manawila, Wilpattu National Park - Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
Scarlet pods in the sand
Radaliya is a large shrub indigenous to Sri Lanka and India and used by the people of these countries in native medicine. The trunk of the tree is reticulate. The inner bark is beefy red while the wood of the Radaliya is mottled
pink.
If damaged the trunk exudes a watery substance. The leaves are pinnate, made up of paired leaflets. Each leaflet has a rounded base. They are shiny dark green on top and paler with minute scales on the underside.
The veins can be seen in a reticulate pattern creating a network of squares on the surface of the leaf. The young leaves and even other parts of the tree are tomentose – woolly or covered with soft hairs. The flowers of the Radaliya are pyramid-shaped and erect and appear from July to September. The fruits of this species make the tree easily recognisable.
They are scarlet pods with a roughly oval shape, which hold in each a single shiny black seed. The outer surface of the fruit is coarse with longitudinal striations. With these pretty fruits hanging at the ends of the branches the Radaliya forms a conspicuous part of the landscape in places like Wilpattu.
Look out for it on the banks of the Kuruttu Pandi Villu in Wilpattu. It can also be seen in Anuradhapura. It grows well in sandy soils, sand dunes and in secondary forests in the dry lowlands. The Radaliya is known as Chettupulukodi in Tamil. The scientific name is Connarus monocarpus.
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Red-wattled Lapwing. Lobivanellus indicus indicus. S: Kirala. T: Al-katti
Manawila, Wilpattu National Park - Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
The breeding season is during the south-west monsoon, June being the favourite month. Four eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground, usually among stones or debris but quite unsheltered by vegetation; they are arranged in the form of a cross, the small ends pointing inwards. They are greyish ochreous, mottled and blotched all over with sepia and black, and measure about 43x31mm. - G.M. Henry, A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon.
Red Wattled Lapwing laying the eggs, Manawila, Wilpattu National Park - Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
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