I can still remeber in 1965, five (5) of my best friends made me to look like a fool.
The plan was us to meet at Prince of Wales, Park in KANDY and each one poses for a photograph.
Sharp on time may be at 9.00AM, I was at the meeting place designated. I waited for half an hour and realized that this was a ploy to fool me.
I was told later one guy whose house was located near Prince of Wales, Park had kept watch of my activities.
I made a quick decision to go round the lake and take photographs. That is the day I became a photographer.
To my luck my brother who became a veteran X-Ray technician or a radiographer had made a darkroom in our house.
Even though, I did do any developing of Photographs, I learned the theory behind.
Then thanks to Mallika Studio I had a large collection of Photographs in an album.
It was stollen by a guy called Sangakkara in my class (That is why I hate all Sangakkaras including the hopeless Superintendent of Kandy Hospital of Yesteryear. We got rid of him and it was very easy to expose his sordid affairs).
I had all the negatives and it was not a disaster.
Second episode was in early 1980 when I posted all my photos of UK and Negatives by Registered Post and I lost all of them.
Then they started stealing my Royalty Cheques from Amazon Books. I send stop payement instructions to the principles and I stopped realization of those Cheques.
I do not send anything by post now in Ceylon but did post all the Dhammapadas to my friends before leaving CEYLON.
They even steal Dhammapada sent by Post in CEYLON.
I bought a Petetson Colour Photography Kit in UK but that kit was also stolen by a family member while I was in New Zealand.
The latest Fuji Film digital camera with so many fancy digital iterations which I have not yet mastered is beside me.
Stealing and Fooling me as a kid not deter my life long interests.
It was Mr. De Livera of TITUS Stores in Colombo that started importing cameras to Ceylon.
It is glad to hear PM. Dudley Senanayake was a good photographer.
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