The view over our beautiful city at 8.15 this morning. I've been meaning to take a panorama and put it up but it never happened till today. Once, on a really really clear December morning, Meshak and I were treated to the silhouette of the central mountains in the distance, and the distinctive shape of the butterfly mountain in the middle. Unfortunately, stupid old me didn't realise at that time how rare seeing the mountains were. I've stared out these windows on more than a hundred mornings since, but never again caught a glimpse. But I'm hopeful. Maybe this January, eh? ;)
p.s. Please excuse the image quality. This is what you get when your phone camera shoots through an unclean window. :D
p.p.s. You can see Mount Lavinia in the distance. :)
Also, I'll tack on a pic of old Tommy since this post is a bit too short. :D
damn! I missed this. I should carry my camera more often I guess. Ado, that was one of the most brilliant things I came across from up there. And, WOW! at tommy's picture. Very cool. Why are all the pictures you put up of tommy black and white? :P super stuff man!
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Meshak - Thank you! I put them up in black and white coz of the whole 'you photograph the person's soul' thing. No, actually he's black and white anyway so we're not losing any colours by doing so! ;P hahaha :D
ReplyDeleteIt'll be nice to see this same capture with Samanala Kanda in view. You should be able to light up the moutainous side in the evening.
ReplyDeleteTommy is in a pensive mood!
ReplyDeleteTommy looks so so sweet. I had a fellow called Tutu, with the same kind of face and markings on the neck. Hope he's having fun up there in Doggy heaven...
ReplyDeleteanaaw tommiya! <3
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cityscape. Next time clean the window before shooting. =D
ReplyDeleteAnd Tommy looks cute. The grayscale accentuates the contrasts and makes it look cooler.
nice shot of Tommy, man.
ReplyDeleteAmila - Surely! :D But it's awfully cloudy all the time man, I guess it's only during certain small windows in time that the sky clears up enough to view the mountains. :(
ReplyDeleteKirigalpoththa - Indeed! :)
Hoot - Awww! :( Well, I hope so too.
Black - :D
Harumi - Haha, yeah I'll open up the window before shooting. :D
Yep, he looks better in grayscale indeed! :D
St. Fallen - Thanks bro! :D
Thank you for the comments, guys! :)
Hey, that's a really good picture of the dog! And you took that with your phone-camera? Way to go! :D
ReplyDeleteMeg - Thanks! :) Nah the pic of Tomiya was taken with my regular P&S. Would be almost unthinkable to take a pic that clear and unblurry with my old phone cam. ;)
ReplyDeletetommyboy is so adorable, he's a post stealer.
ReplyDeleteYaka - That he is. Haven't seen him in ages, high time I made a trek up there. :)
ReplyDeleteThe last 2 comments didn't go through :) but here goes:
ReplyDeleteHow about Google mapping this location? I think it would be a good outlet for your little obsession :)
I'm trying to get more SL bloggers geo blogging.
Cerno - Hey! :D
ReplyDeleteWow, sorry about your comments. :/ Blogger usually doesn't eat them up (at least for me) but something must've gone wrong. :S
Good idea. :D I've put the approximate location in this Google map, and the location is 'BOC Merchant Tower' which is just behind Liberty Cinema, and the picture was taken 12 floors up. :)
Thanks for the comment, Cerno!
Excellent! (as Mr Burns would say). If you are planning to hike around the mountains with Kirigalpoththa and the gang I hope you mark up your adventures on Google maps (Kiri never seems to have gotten on to it).
ReplyDeleteNo probs about the lost comments :) these blog things tend to act up now and then :)
Hey, will do it for sure. :D Sinhalaya Travels usually put up a map with all their articles and I'll do the same if I get to go on a hike with the legends! :D
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