Raditha’s Photos

To make the best tea, you need to pluck just two leaves and a bud from a tea bush. The leaves should not be too mature either. There’s only one way to do it, by look and feel. Each day, hundreds of thousands of a workers across Sri Lanka pick millions of these sets of two leaves and a bud to produce the finest Ceylon Tea, which of course also happen to be the finest tea in the world. That begs the question how do they do it in other countries? using machines of course. Those machines pluck not just the two leaves and the bud but a bunch of leaves and a few twigs as well.

Morning dew on a red flower. The name of which I know not

It’s not a satellite earth station but part of a flower. I believe it’s called ‘Stamens’, but please do correct me if I am wrong, botany is my weakest subject.

Over the Christmas holidays I took more than 500 photos with a Micro Nikkor and have about a 100 keepers. Going to bore you with them over the coming weeks. But don’t worry I will throw in a few non macro photos in between

Adams peak, the most prominent of Sri Lankas mountain can be seen from the top of my water tank which is more than 200 Kilometers away by road. It is said that in the past Adam’s Peak could be seen on most days at many different places in Colombo. If you look at the 19th century paintings of Colombo, you will often find that Adam’s peak is shown in the background.

Things have changed. Dust, Smoke and buildings obscure the view.

By the way, those smugdes on the foreground were caused by a flock of egrets who flew past at that very moment.