Otara for CJS - Oh la la!

Fire, Sri Lanka.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser

Bikram Choudhury

POKE! Artists and Social Media - A Fotofest Exhibition, Houston, USA

POKE! explores the inter-personal intentions of social media technology and the nature of modern internet-mediated relationships with work that references and uses source material from popular online social media websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Craigslist, and YouTube.

Penelope Umbrico, Suns from Flickr, 2006-2007

Christopher Baker (Minneapolis, MN) compiles a wall full of personal, diarist messages by teenage users of YouTube and Facebook. The wall-sized video installation is a cacophonous monument to the individual’s voice and the confessional nature of self-made video.

Penelope Umbrico (New York, NY) obsessively appropriates images from Craigslist, where merchants selling second-hand televisions make unwitting self portraits of themselves. These images of TVs, branded with their owners faces, are reproduced life-sized and sold for the same price as their real-life counterparts, questioning the worth of the consumable (the TV) and the original (the photograph).

Freeze Frame - Powercut Circus, Bands, Sri Lanka.

If you haven't heard of them, well its time you did. Powercut circus is one of the most original bands I have come across. I just wish they would come out with an album... Their lyrics are quirky yet profound. Visit them at - http://www.myspace.com/powercutcircus listen to their music! If you can get a hold of this months Serendib Mag, there is an feature about them "Circus at the Folly". Thanks to Helga Folly's again for the generous hospitality. Thanks guys for letting me SHOOT you! & Feroze and Sonali for the attire!

Helga, at Helga's Folly; Kandy, Sri Lanka

wearing KT Brown

HI-gh Street fashion in Main Street Pettah!

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Adam Flamercaldera and Chulpamedra model for Buddhi Batik.

We don't like Cricket, We Love it! - Beach Cricket, Sri Lanka.

Tea is liquid wisdom.

It was time to do something for the family. Here's my contribution. There are 45 such images! Nothing quite like a cup of tea.

Diamonds and Pearls, CJS, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Time for a Facelift - www.alefiya.com

Another year or so has gone by and it was time to update www.alefiya.com with some of my new work.   I hope you enjoy viewing the images.  Thank you all for your support, comments, feedback and constructive criticism during my blogging years!   I am now more or less based both in Houston, Texas and Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Happy Clicking!

Every Dog has its Day - Dutch Reformed Church, Galle Literary Festival; Galle; Sri Lanka.

Amongst a packed audience, a lone dog enjoys the precision sounds of The Chamber Music Society of Colombo as they give a special concert at dusk at the newly restored Dutch Reformed Church in Galle.

Deborah and Crystal; Allan Parkway, Houston, Texas.

Garden of the Gods; Colorado.

Mum and Me; Garden of the Gods, Colorado.

Mutz and Marina, Mt. Evans; Denver,Colorado.

Astros and Bubbles; Houston, Texas.

My first Astros and Brewers game... not gonna be my last!

Stanley Kirinde (1930-2009)

Stanley next to his mural "The Wedding at Cana" at the Cathedral of the Living Saviour, Colombo; 2007. (Trinity)

Being Alefiya

Sarita and Tannar - a few more

Sarita and Tannar wed; Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A new year and the work begins at home.