Ekanayake adds two more feathers to his cap

Award-winning wildlife photographer Surgeon Rear Admiral Lalith Ekanayake of Sri Lanka Navy won the Photographic Alliance Great Britain (PAGB) Gold Medal at the 40th Smethwick International Exhibition of Photography 2015 Great Britain and Photographic Society Singapore (PSS) Gold Medal at the 61st Singapore International Photography Awards in 2014.

Ekanayake won the ISF Gold Medal at the 3rd Taiwan International Salon of Photography 2014 and WAHP Silver Medal at the 1st International Salon of Art Photo Carpathian Drag 2014 In Serbia. Also two of his photographs have been highly commended at the "Digital Photo Archives 2014" competition in Ireland.

He also won the prestigious UPI Gold Medal twice in the past few years and won the First Prize and the title of "Sanctuary Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013" in India.

A few of his other exhibits were Runner-up at the Wexas International Competition in UK 2012, Bronze Medal at the Trierenberg Super Circuit Austria 2013, Silver Medal at EMPA in India, Diploma in Le Catalan in France 2014, Honourable Mention at the Oasis Competition in Italy 2012 and 2013, First Place at the Chaaya-Wild Etisalat Photography Competition 2012, PSSL Bronze Medal and Special Mention at the 57th PSSL competition 2012 and Honorable Mention - National Wildlife Federation Photography Competition 2014 USA.

His work has been exhibited in over 25 countries and twice his pictures were selected as the Editor's choice, Photo of the Month and Photo of the Day at the National Geographic Competition 2011 and 2012.

He has been a finalist for the past few years at the Natural History Museum Photography Competition in UK.

Most of his achievements have been first ever of a Sri Lankan to do so.

Ekanayake had two solo wildlife photographic exhibitions in 2010 and 2013 in Colombo along with publication of two coffee table books The Untamed Road and Animal Verses:

Surgeon Rear Admiral Lalith Ekanayake USP, MBBS, MD, FCCP, DDHM (Aus), AFIAP is the Medical Director of the Sri Lanka Navy and also a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist and Consultant in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, for which he is the foremost specialist in Sri Lanka.

-SP