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!

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!

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....