Sometimes, even an ordinary camera in an ordinary amateur hand can strike pictorial gold. I present here some striking photos taken on spec with an ‘everyday camera,’ that is, an “Olympus Digital camera”,while vacationing in Sri Lanka and elsewhere over the years.
our remarkable Standard 8 jalopy encouraging Kim and Maya to ‘play’ for the camera …. at Augusta Hill, Peradeniya, c.1971
Shona at a kasbah in Morocco, c. 2014(?) …..and at the pontoon hotel on the River Kwai in Thailand in the 1980s
an ‘island’ in Lake Minneriya in Minneriya National Park, 2020
a road north of Kandy in Lanka …. …………………… the “Girl’s Bathing Place off the Fort of Galle
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……………. & a beachside restaurant scene south of Adelaide
an ancient wreck on the western coastal shore of Fraser Island
... with yours truly sneaking into the bowels of the WRECK to snap its prison-like features …. and then we see an optimistic cameraman seeking to capture something magical on the horizon at twilight ….
while Michael Roberts could ponder about the world’s problems in the company of a Kookaburra on his backgarden trellis fence in 2016