The last lot of photos from the Dhaka Scott Kelby PhotoWalk on 23rd Aug:

First batch of 20 images from yesterday's photowalk : click the thumbnails for a larger version.

Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk, Dhaka Bangladesh, 23rd August 2008 led by David Mckee. A great morning, met a lot of new people and many very good photographers. The Walk was interesting especially to go out to an area of the city that I do not visit often. people on the street were really friendly, though a bit curious as to what a whole bunch of camera-toting people were suddenly doing there! As part of the walk, a friend and I also took a boat trip up and back the Buriganga. It was fascinating to note, that there are pre-defined «lanes» for the small passenger row-boats to cross across from one side to the other bank. It is a busy river, with barges, ferries, sand-boats, and boats of all shapes and sizes...that this system of orderly boat-traffic makes it as safe as possible.

The back-lanes in the Sadarghat and Old Dhaka areas were so full of life! Everyone with a purpose. No one seemed to be «just there» or strolling. The streets were crowded, as expected in a city with one of the highest population densities in the world. Rickshaws, pull-carts, push-carts, a few horse driven buggies, even a few cars in those narrow lanes! I have one photo, in this set showing the scrape-marks of vehicular traffic along the wall of a lane.

All in all, a great morning well spent!

Participated in the Scott Kelby World-Wide Photo-Walk today....

We met at Ahsan Manzil Museum [The Pink Palace] in Old Dhaka near Sadarghat on the banks of the Buriganga, and separated into groups to re-group at 10 AM.

Great experience! Met many new people. Will post photos once processed and posted to the Flickr group online.....

9th Birthday. Family tradition: cake in the morning even before breakfast.

   
Mannat is so excited today.... she is 9! We had the usual [super!] home baked cake early in the morning before she went off [skipped and hummed a tune] to school.  

Finally! managed to get a few photos of the Sunbirds [this one is a Female. Purple Rumped - Leptocoma zeylonica ] who keep coming back to this shrub to strip off the dry stringy bark for nest-building....