A photo journal and some ramblings…
Posted in Balu River, Peacock, boat, river on Jun 26th, 2010
25th June Bunch of us went out early morning on the Peacock from Tolna, stopped off at Ullukhola Market and hired this contraption of a three-wheeled “motor-van” to go explore the 2 old 17th century Portuguese Churches in Nagori and Motbari. One other old church that I had visited in 2007 I could not locate this [...]
Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, Sunflower, boat, farewell, river on Jun 20th, 2010
A lovely evening aboard the Sunflower on the Balu River outside of Dhaka city. A few nice friends, great food and drink, super cool breeze and a magical evening – low billowy clouds, then a pale but pretty sunset, and finally the moon lighting the way….
Posted in BBC Boats, Kingfisher, Peacock, boat on Feb 20th, 2010
Impromptu picnic aboard the Peacock, so we got together a few packs of wafers, drinks, hot-dogs and chicken cup-noodles… the ruckus the 3 girls created would have put a dozen boys to shame We decided to go down-river instead of the usual trip up-river, head past Isapura and then get as far as we could get [...]
Posted in Balu River, Sunflower, Wilder Thing, boat, fishermen on Dec 12th, 2009
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Posted in Balu River, Peacock, Photography, Stein Naevdal, boat, river, sunrise on Nov 21st, 2009
A photo trip with good friend Stein Naevdal up the Balu River aboard the Peacock - a traditional Bangladeshi motorized sailboat boat – on 20th November early morning just as the sun was rising. We got to Tolna [coordinates: 23°51'1.00" N 90°28'24.26"E] just before 7 AM in time to see the Peacock pulling up to the small [...]
Posted in Balu River, Birthday, Sunflower, boat, celebration, family, sunset on Nov 14th, 2009
Sunset cruise aboard the “Sunflower” on 13th November 2009. With friends and family. Aisha – Anahita – Anil – Archana – Arnavi – Arti – Babla – Banu – Gurmeet – Ifti – Ishi – Jyoti – Mannat – Nilufer – Shahab – Subodh – Vihan. Two on the prow to entertain!
Posted in Balu River, Ujwala Prabhu, boat, fishermen, nature, river, sunrise on Oct 16th, 2009
An early morning trip to Isapura village [23°49'37.72" N 90°29'19.09" E] near Dhaka today, with Ujwala. We left early [just after 6] and the light was beautiful while we were on the way, thought it would be gone by the time we reached our destination…. but luckily we got there well in time to watch [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Dhaka, Photography, SoFoBoMo, boat, river, street photography on Jun 6th, 2009
Day 4: The Jatrabari bridge across the Buriganga river. Drove out to try locate an aea where, apparently, the local Sarees in brightly dyed colors are hung out to dry. I’ve seen these before too and the image in my minds-eye was clear. I was expecting to come across brilliant fabrics in all colors and [...]
Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Niraj, Ramesh, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, boat, river on May 2nd, 2009
A farewell to friends, boat trip down the Balu River at sunset….. Â Â Â Â Â
Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Dhaka, FLICKR, Heather Pillar, Museum, Photography, Portrait, Sadarghat, boat, river, street photography on Aug 25th, 2008
The last lot of photos from the Dhaka Scott Kelby PhotoWalk on 23rd Aug: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The winning photographs of the PhotoWalk are shown here. And congratulations to Shabbir Ferdous from Bangladesh for producing the best of the lot from Dhaka! Bangladesh participants group photo by David is here.
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