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Nethadara 2009:
Nature alive on lens
Anuradha ABEYSEKARA
Open Film Category - Sanka Sammana Perera |
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Open Digital Category - Kelum Prasad Jayasooriya |
School Digital Category - Hirushi Mallawathanthri - Devibalika
Vidyalaya |
School Film Category - Prageeth Priyankara Siriwardana -
Maliyadewa College
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Nethadara 2009, the annual nature photography exhibition and
competition oraganized by the Nature team of the University of Moratuwa
will be held at the National Art Gallery from July 24 to 25.
More than 130 selected photographs covering busy towns, rural
villages, thick forests, mountain ranges and waterfalls will be
exhibited. What the Nature team wants to emphasize is that it doesn’t
matter where you live to experience the beauty of nature.
With the introduction of the digital camera, photography has become a
popular phenomena than ever before in our society. The nature team has
realized the ability of photography to influence the society in the
worthy cause of preserving the environment.
The team was formed in 2004 as a group of environmental enthusiastic
undergraduate. The team has become the official organization of nature
studies and environmental issues of the University of Moratuwa.
Apart from its activities of tree planting, tree tagging, waste
management, field visits and nature awareness lectures, Nethadara 2009
is their prime annual event of the forum.
With the theme ‘Rhythms of the colour of nature’, this year’s
competition is being held under six categories.
Schoolchildren, university undergraduates and members of
environmental societies took part in the competition and the winners
were awarded with cash prizes and certificates.
The Nature team believes the exhibition will create enthusiasm and
promote the beauty and excitement among young minds on the art of nature
photography. They hope that the exhibition will create a belief among
the community that even the most urbanized places can accommodate
magnificent fraction of the nature.
When people see the beauty of the surroundings they will be much more
concerned about protecting the environment.
It is a need of the hour for everybody to give their fullest support
to protect Mother Nature. Human activities have caused great damages to
the natural habitat. Individually, we can contribute greatly to protect
and preserve the nature by getting a more natural lifestyle.
Nethadara 2009 will lead to a discussion among the community to
rethink how beautiful and precious the environment we live in and the
importance of conserving it our future generations.
Let’s get together and work to protect Mother Nature, if not the
beautiful moments of Mother Nature we captured today will only be seen
in the photographs in the future!
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