Ten is just a number, the roman number X, the number of fingers on our hands. But when you add years to it, it becomes a decade.  Then it starts to mean something.  In 2003 four wildlife buddies decided to formalize their relationship and formed zero3 images. Yes folks it’s been 10 years for zero3 images.  In 2003 zero3 images was born, and was named after the year and not as a commonly believed myth, the average IQ of the four members of zero3 images.  Yes we had lighter frames, less gray hair and some even had hair at that time. The only person who has not changed is Palitha who still looks...

It had been a while since the four of us at Zero3images had made a trip together and with the overdose of long weekends we have been enjoying during the first quarter of 2013, we managed to coordinate our schedules to make a three day trip to Sinharaja. Palitha and his son Tharusha, Gehan and Harshi with one of their twin daughters, Ashwini, Namal and Jacquie, and My son Sachin, his friend Savinda, Charlene and I, decided to spend 2 nights at Martins Lodge. The conditions were great for a nice weekend of birding and the plan was to leave early Saturday morning, to get there for lunch. Charlene...

29th Oct. My life has always revolved around traveling. Mainly centering on wildlife and wild places, I have been fortunate to have traveled the length and breadth of our stunning island home. Sometime, life does throw us a curve ball which changes things; which makes the familiar, un-familiar and changes our priorities. Sadly, during a time like this, travel suffers. The past eight months have been such a time and following a trip to Mannar in February, my travel came to a grinding halt. I made a few short forays to the wild, but I was devoid of the drive to get back to serious photography and...

The leopard is the quintessential cat. They out number all other big cats combined 5 to 1. Yet, it is one of the hardest cats to see. They survive from deserts to rainforest to montane climates; they are the perfect study of adaptability and survival.  We are lucky that this island wonder, Sri Lanka, is home to one of 7 sub species in the world, and in Sri Lanka it is the apex predator.  Given the right conditions and protection, Sri Lanka is the only place that this cat walks in the day time, in complete confidence. Have you ever had the pleasure to follow a leopard? Where it had chosen to ignore...