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Kantha Productions LLC’s project on Surayia Rahman’s life and her art has gone live on the Internet today. Their website is up and running, though still in the creation stages. A work-in-progress, with a lot more information and photographs to be added in due time. Do look often, for new content will be added! A [...]

The “official” first day of spring was the 13th Feb.
Yesterday the first new leaves began appearing on the Mahogany trees.  In a few days, the orange and yellows of these new sprouts will give way to green… yep it IS spring now!

A friend has been involved in a documentary project on the life-story of Bangladesh artist and personality Surayia Rahman – requiring some photographs of Surayia, her art and wonderfully intricate Nakshi Kantha tapestries, photos of the women who embroider the Nakshi Kantha, and other visuals of people associated or who were associated with Surayia. I [...]

READY? SET… GO!!
 
That’s what the t-shirts said for a “fun run” organized by a friend to raise money for a breast cancer fund.

Getting almost 100 people into a group photo was a tough one though. Luckily I had a super-wide lens in the bag, and there was a staircase I could climb for a downward looking [...]

Annular Partial Solar Eclipse, Dhaka Bangladesh, 15 January 2010.
First solar eclipse of the year today.

We watched the moon begin to cover the sun, gradually increasing the coverage. Here, at the time of maximum eclipse it was a partial eclipse but still fascinating to see the shimmering rays because the apparent size of the moon was [...]

Pretty chilly morning, plenty of fog. Just perfect for a walk around the park, and to go photograph the bridge and the foliage in the mist…..

     
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28 members of the Indian Air Force “Air Warriors”  performed their famous coordinated and perfectly choreographed Rifle Drill this morning at the Indian High Commission grounds in Dhaka. The coordination and skill were amazing and the unique drill has to be seen to be believed. Bravo AWDT! We and the kids enjoyed the show [and [...]

  
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22nd Nov 09.
Morning trip to Sonargaon village with Stein.
We intended to get there well before 7am so that we could scout out a vantage point to watch and photograph the sunrise. A slight delay, but we still got there in time to watch the sky turn magenta at pre-dawn to a grey pink at dawn [...]

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 pier [...]