Sri Lanka: Abandoned Flip Flops

I was standing on a beach in Sri Lanka that had been hit hard by the tsunami only a short time earlier. My guide told me that one thing he had noticed once the water receded, was the abundance of sandals and flip flops that had lodged in the tree tops and broken tree trunks such as this one. I looked around. He was right. Everywhere you looked you could see little piles of flip flops that the raging waves had torn from their owners.

(16-35mm f2.8 lens at 24mm, 1/125 sec, f6.3, ISO400)