Posted in Bangladesh, Book, Heritage, ISSUU, Photography, published, Ruins, SoFoBoMo, Sonargaon on Jun 12th, 2010
SoFoBoMo 2010 book completed today. A great experience, though I did miss the company of a friend who was to join-in but finally could not. This, in a way, limited the extent of my photo taking – though I still do have a large collection of images to use for a [later] series on [...]
Posted in Heritage, Hindu, mist, Ruins, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, sunrise, temple on Nov 22nd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, boat, Buriganga, Dhaka, FLICKR, Heather Pillar, Heritage, Museum, Photography, pollution, Portrait, rickshaw, river, Ruins, Sadarghat, street photography on Aug 24th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Destruction, Heather Pillar, Heritage, Hindu, mosque, river, Ruins, Sadarghat, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, temple on Apr 26th, 2008
A trip to Sonargaon, around 30 KM from Dhaka city…. the ancient Capital now in ruins. Like a ghost town, the homeless living in abandoned buildings. Buildings that were probably majestic and stately at one time, now crumbling in neglect, robbed of their ornate carved doors and windows, full of rubbish and the homeless… pathetic [...]