This post contains two portraits of people I met while I was in Kandy.
The photograph above is of a man who was at the
Embekke temple when we visited in January. He was at the gate having a conversation with some other people when we walked in. A little while later he came up to our group and started giving us a "tour" of the temple. It was a bit of a surprise to all of us as no one had indicated that we needed a guide.
I took this photograph of him on our way out. I thought he had an interesting face and an impressive moustache (which was completely white). The sun, falling on one side of his face, accentuated the wrinkles around his eyes and on his forehead. In hindsight, I should have used a reflector of some sort to lighten up the area around his eyes. I decided to convert this image to black and white as colour didn't really add anything to it. I also felt that a black and white image would highlight the different textures on his skin.
The second portrait is after the jump.