craig | May 25, 2010
day 4,
So after my afternoon of recovery we gathered for a roti dinner in the common room of the guest house in Jaffna. We had a chat with the owner of the house, Roy. He told us about some of the things that he had to do during the war. He is [...]
craig | May 19, 2010
Day 3,
We got going early and got lost often on this shortened day. A lot of the streets/roads around Jaffna are not tagged. The interesting way I found that a lot of people in Sri Lanka ask for directions is not to ask about how to get to where you are going, but [...]
craig | May 17, 2010
We left Mannar in the morning set off for Jaffna. We entered a security checkpoint at Omanthai. It was here that the rest of our adventure was put into jeopardy as I was a foreign citizen without a Ministry of Defense pass.
It is common in Sri Lanka for cars to get stopped at [...]
craig | May 10, 2010
For my next few posts, I plan on deciphering some of my handwritten notes on my recent expeditions on the Isle of Serendib. I’ve never really kept a “diary” so this is a new exercise for me. This trip was one that a friend of Shami’s family, Father Felician, helped to organize and [...]
craig | May 5, 2010
I told you I’d be updating you on my recent expeditions and I’m here to prove I wasn’t lying. A lot of the time I try to work with a pre-visualized idea about what I want to shoot. For the most part I’ve been able to get very close to what I had [...]