A couple of images from Dhaka on July 18th.
A three-wheeler taxi driver who had stopped to get some «Jhaal Muri» [Jhaal = spicy/chili hot. Muri or Moori = puffed rice] which is a favorite local street-food/snack. JhaalMuri is a mouth watering combination of puffed rice chopped green chili onion coriander and a spicy mixture of condiments and a bit of mustard oil. All shaken up together and sold in little paper packets.
The Rickshaw drivers waiting on queue for passengers on the avenue.

A few from an early morning trip down the streets of Dhaka.
Hot tea at a road-side stall ~ garment factory workers going to work ~ Ah, he had an interesting face so we took a few photos. Said that no one ever pays him for taking his pictures. He needs an agent. LOL!

   
This next one is just an experimental «high-key» overexposure pushed a bit in PhotoShop

Fishing in the, now polluted, Baridhara/Gulshan lakes - these fishermen continue to make a lively-hood from fish caught here.  The «lakes» are pretty filthy and polluted with all the muck from the city flowing directly into these lakes. At one time, not more than 10 years ago, these «lakes» were connected and further connected to a canal system which probably fed from one of the smaller rivers.  The water would flow.  Now these are stagnant water bodies that overflow during the high monsoon but do not dry out during the dry season.  The large fish, pictured, was later thrown back overboard [dead] because they thought it was no good.  They were after the smaller varieties probably.... 
  
 

Dear friends, Adios. Till we meet again! We still have to do that 5AM photo trip, Stein . . . .

 36 of my photographs displayed at «In Search of Beautiful Impressions» an exhibition at Bengal Gallery from 2nd to 4th June 2008 - of prints from the Printmaking Workshop which was held at the Institute of Fine Arts Dhaka University from 18th to 24th May 2008. The facade of the Gallery is an enormous wood-carved piece of art which makes me stop and look at it every time I visit. The exhibition was great and there were so many fantastic pieces of art that I liked - I bought [just!] 4 of the many prints that I liked. Rokeya was at the gallery this evening, doing an interview for the gallery and probably one for a TV channel. I missed the slide-show and documentary film though, as it was getting late and I had to be elsewhere by 7. Subir Choudhury, the Director of the gallery, promised to send me a copy on a disk .