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.....

Thai Flickr Meet - June 5th 2008 at Bangkok. A trip on the Chaopraya River past Wat Arun ~ a visit to the Museum of Siam ~ then to Pak Khlong Talat [flower market] ~ and finally a few beers and look at Wat Arun at night. Thanks to all the great people I met at the TFM.. see you again sometime soon!

A class trip on the Balu River in the northeast of Dhaka city... to study the eco-system.

Had accompanied the Brownies on the same river around a year ago.

   
   
As we got off the boat to take a walk through the villages, a storm began and we were able to get back to the boat just in time. The 2 storm photos were taken 3 minutes apart - you can see how fast the low clouds moved in. High winds and driving rain. Then lightning, a few strikes into the river and some on the land to our left....probably some of the closest lightning strikes I have witnessed. The ones that hit close, were reddish-yellow [is that possible?] and I could smell the electric discharge. The kids were all huddled into the cabin below, and Denise May read horror stories to them!
  

Oh, and after processing the images from this trip - the storm landscapes sparked a thought. A few evenings ago a friend had brought over a photography magazine, and it had a great tutorial on how to create Triptych images. So, I gave it a shot and a first attempt here it is. Thanks Stein!