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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 [...]

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 [...]

Drove out to Ashulia for lunch at Little Italy and spotted this purple house on the Turag.
The river has become quite wide from all the heavy rain we have been having. The river dwindles down to a narrow strip before the monsoon rains come. You can see the width of the river behind the Banyan [...]

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 was excited [...]

A farewell to friends, boat trip down the Balu River at sunset…..
     
   

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]